- 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.
- Clinical Approach to Feather Picking Disorders in Pet Birds
- Describes areas of feather picking, if it is behavioral or medical in nature, and how this problem is handled. [DOC].
- 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.
- How to Manage Feather-Picking in Caged Birds
- Provides details on the differences between normal preening, lack of preening, and destructive feather picking.
- Research on Feather Diseases - Part I
- Provides results on budgerigars. Discusses pulpitis, mites, cysts, stress marks, and feather dusters.
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