Avian Skin and Feather Disorders

• Broken Blood Feathers  - Shares how to attend to a broken blood feather in cockatiels and provides a link on how to find an avian vet.
• Common Skin and Feather Disorders in Pet Birds Part I  - Introduces many diseases and disorders that can affect birds' skin and feathers, including mites, baldness, cysts, behavioral feather picking, polyfollicles, and brown hypertrophy.
• Feather Picking and Self-Mutilation in Companion Birds  - Defines this destructive behavior, causes, contributing factors, and recommendations.
• Feather Plucking In Parrots  - Discusses some common causes such as malnutrition, psychological stress, parasites, and internal organ disease in relation to this behavioral problem in birds.
• Research on Feather Diseases - Part I  - Provides results on budgerigars. Discusses pulpitis, mites, cysts, stress marks, and feather dusters.