Baby galah cockatoo12/27/2023 ![]() ![]() I haven't seen any feathers at all just fuzzballs but when I spread her wings I see bald spots in hidden places. I could feel it when I was holding her because her grip wasn't steady.Īnyhow I'm wondering if I'm overreacting. I found the experience to be stressful and afterward poor Lola was having difficulty standing on wooden perches and stayed on her rope perches. She asked to trim her nails and I told her just a little but not completely because I didnt want her to be off-balanced however she trimmed her nails so low that she hit the nerve on one of them and had to put the powder on it. This vet advised me to trim her wings just for training purposes and then I can allow it to grow after because I'm aware that it's best to keep them flighted so I agreed. What concerns me is that I think this is when she may have started plucking if she is because I think she was completely stressed. She is completely healthy all blood work came back negative. When I had first got her, I had the vet come and check her out. I've decided I'm going to give her a shower every morning before I leave because i dont know if she ever had one before, by her reaction I think not. However she does seem to always be preening. My concern is that if it was plucking she was probably doing it before she got here because she was in a cage with no toys but is it normal for a baby to start so young? She is only in her cage while I'm at work and to sleep otherwise she is always with us even when we travel on the road. I've only fed her what I get out of the book "sharing your table with your birds". She is getting pretty bird pellets and human food. The fuzziest that I see on her could it be because she is still growing or is my little girl plucking? I've given her a bath this morning and still came home to a bit of fuzz in the cage but she has shredding toys, forgaging toys, musical toys, ropes, wood toys, perches and of course her food and drinks. My baby girl is only 4 months old and her name is Lola. I see little fuzz of hair every day not a lot but enough for me to notice. I just received my galah cockatoo on Sept. ![]()
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