Why may parrot is plucking ?

Answer 1

because you're not giving him a lot of attention. birds do that when they are bored and it can lead to serious damage. try to pay more attention to your bird and give him a lot of toys to play with.

Answer 2

There's as many reasons why parrots pluck as there are parrots. Some pluck because they hate the new painting you put up in their room. Some pluck because their diet isn't healthy enough and may be eating only sunflower seeds. Some birds, like my green cheeks, pluck due to breeding stress. Some pluck because they have mites or other parasites harassing them and they pluck to ease the itching. Some pluck because they were abused. Some pluck because they're bored and some pluck because they've been taught to pluck by well meaning but uneducated owners. Then there's those who pluck due to a bad wing clip and birds who, despite everything listed, pluck and their frustrated owners don't know why.

You can rule out many of the above listed causes by feeding a well balanced diet of fruit, veggies, seeds and pellets. Some folks have found success removing foods filled with preservatives from their birds' diet. You can also help your guy by bringing them to a vet so that mites and protozoa can be ruled out.

Plucking is a hard thing to solve. I can only suggest to keep your chin up and don't give up hope. Some birds take years before they grow in a single new feather! Vets can suggest surgeries and even medications that may be of use. Good luck!

Answer 3

Parrots need lots and lots of attention. He's probably so bored that he's developing quirks like pulling his feathers out. Other indications of boredom are repetitive actions like pacing and mimicking sounds instead of words. You should either move him into a more active part of the house or leave a recording for him to listen to during the day. This way, he'll learn to talk as well, and be a better companion for you!

Answer 4

Where is he plucking? I work with animals though birds are not my forte', My "bird"-friends clip the small under feathers that the bird can't reach because they become irritating. Also, look closely to see if there might be lice or fleas

Answer 5

He's probly plucking because he has a lack of nutrition, some kind of bug/parasite, board, or dosen't get enought atention.
when a bird is plucking it's best to take him to a vet, because if he has something, the others birds will catch it in no time.

Answer 6

It can be many things

skin irritation or illness
Stress
not enough sleep
feels unsafe
tramautized by something
poor diet
lack of attention
lack of mental stimulation.

All of these things can contribute to feather picking or it could be a combination of the above

You should have your avian veterinarian check it out.

Best Of Luck Joe

Answer 7

Give the bird some much needed attention!! Parrots are very much like toddlers... they crave all your attention and are anxious to please. And just like a toddler, if they aren't getting attention they pitch a fit. Your bird id probably just pitching a fit because he's bored.

Answer 8

Veterinarian diagnoses: proventricular dilatation, wings clipped at too young an age, obesity, nutrition related, thyroid problems, bacterial infections, low calcium, habit, yeast infections, dry skin, allergies, sexual frustration, behavioral, psychological, emotional, and neurotic.

Here's some website that should give you more information.

http://www.realmacaw.com/pages/pluck.html

http://www.parrothouse.com/jh3.html

Answer 9

1) Malnutrition is the number one cause of feather plucking. Birds that have been feed a seed diet containing large numbers of sunflower or safflower seeds. Parrots are exceptionally fond of oily sunflower seeds. However, a diet rich in sunflower seeds does not meet the bird’s nutritional demands. These seeds are too high in fat and too low in vitamin A and protein. With time, their skin becomes dry and flaky. Their cere (the area of the nostrils) becomes thickened and the nostrils small scaly, and irregular. Their body feathers lack luster and colour. They suffer from sinusitis as well as respiratory infections. Sometimes the areas surrounding the eyes become puffy and swollen. Molts often becomes irregular or incomplete. Many of these parrots begin to over-groom and destroy their feathers. Since individual feathers are retained too long in this condition they also become torn and frayed. These birds need to be gradually switched to a high quality pelleted diet. However, the parrot may continue to pluck out of habit even when it is returned to balanced nutrition. In this case, the problem, though initially nutritional, has become psychological.

2) Psychological Stress is common among cage birds. When a bird is under stress, it often resorts to
excess grooming e.g. plucking its own feathers out. If the bird’s head is plucked, it is a cage mate that has the problem. One common cause of psychological stress is sexual maturity and the urge to bond and court a mate. If the owner is accepted as the birds mate and has the time to interact with the bird things go fine. If, however, the bird becomes frustrated, plucking often results this problem is worst in grey parrots, cockatoos and macaws but it occurs in all parrots. Parrots normally come in to breeding condition shortly after day length begins to increase. Birds under artificial lighting are more erratic. Another cause of psychological stress is too small a quarters or housing that lacks stimulating and interactive toys and objects. In the wild, a parrot spends 50-80% of its time searching for food. When the need for foraging for food is removed, the birds have an enormous amount of free time on their hands. One way to occupy this time is to groom the feathers. Some birds literally groom their feathers off for lack of other pastimes. The secret of success with these cases is to provide a stimulating environment for the bird. This should consist of toys, novel areas, raw branch perches of differing diameter that the bird can chew on, bells, hide-boxes, mirrors and any safe objects that the bird shows interest in. Radio and television is sometimes also helpful, as is placement of the cage near a window with a view. Adding craft paper bags for the bird to enter or a nest box for the pet to sleep in may also help.
Many of these birds that become veteran self-puckers have been doing it on and off for years and need medications to break the habit. Drugs that have been used successfully for this problem include the hormone Depopovera (medroxyprogesterone acetate injection of 5-25mg/kg every 3 months) which alters mood and mood-altering medications that work directly on the brain, such as Elavil (amitryptyline1-2mg/kg twice a day) and drugs that decrease obsessive-compulsive behaviors such as Clomacalm (chlomipramine HCl 0.5-1mg/kg once or twice a day orally). I have had the most success using a preparation of strawberry syrup and chlomipramine.
3) Parasites are reported to occasionally cause feather itching and feather plucking. Although many books on birds say that external parasites, such as lice and mites, cause a bird to pluck out its feathers, lice are extremely uncommon on pet hook-billed birds in which self-plucking is a problem. If mites or lice are actually determined to be present, the best treatment is to apply a diluted mixture of ivomectin to the bird or give ivomectin orally at 200micrograms per kilogram of bird. A light dusting of rotenone tomato dust is also a safe way to kill external parasites. A microscopic protozoan parasite of the intestine, Giardia, has also been reported to cause itching and self-plucking in lovebirds. If, however, a case occurs, the treatment of choice is to place the bird on metronidazole (Flagyl) at 10-30miligrams per kilogram twice a day for ten days. It is extremely bitter unless specially formulated.
4) Internal organ disease of a chronic nature, such as hepatitis or egg yolk peritonitis and abdominal tumors often manifests itself as self-trauma to the feathers. The cause of this is unknown. I suspect these conditions when an older bird housed under excellent conditions begins to pluck its feathers. Many of these conditions are incurable.
Birds with feather picking should undergo a thorough physical examination by an experienced avian veterinarian as well as laboratory evaluation to determine the underlying cause and most appropriate treatment.

Answer 10

Answer can be one of the below or all or any:
Boredom
Parrot can be sick.
Scared
Malnutrition
Uneasy with environment