Birds Health Conditions & Diseases Skin and Feather Disorders6355 active Links and 320 Articles in 16 Categories and 731 Subcategories | ||||||||||
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| Common Skin and Feather Disorders in Pet Birds Part I - http://www.birdsnways.com/wisdom/ww48eiv.htm Many diseases and disorders can affect your birds skin and feathers, including mites, baldness, cysts, behavioral feather picking, polyfollicles, and brown hypertrophy. |
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| Feather Picking and Self-Mutilation in Companion Birds - http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/herdmed/applied-ethology/behaviourproblems/selfmutilbird.html Defines this destructive behavior, causes, contributing factors, and recommendations. |
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| Broken Blood Feathers - http://www.cockatielcottage.net/feathers.html How to attend to a broken blood feather in cockatiels and provides a link on how to find an avian vet. |
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| Feather Plucking In Parrots - http://www.2ndchance.info/selfpluck.htm Discusses some common causes such as malnutrition, psychological stress, parasites, and internal organ disease in relation to this behavioral problem in birds. |
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| Research on Feather Diseases - Part I - http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/diseases/feather.html Provides results on budgerigars. Discusses pulpitis, mites, cysts, stress marks, and feather dusters. Part II describes tumors, multifeathers, distortions, splits, follicles, vitamin deficiency, and feather loss. |