Girly White Silkie
Chirping
- Sep 10, 2017
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I heard there was a parrot stressed and pulled all its feathers and hated everyone.
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Parrots, when stressed by boredom or a lack of social interaction, do indeed rip out their feathers and will move on to tearing their skin if the situation isn't corrected. This is because parrots are extremely intelligent, social creatures, and suffer immensely if deprived of stimulation.
Chickens can also suffer from boredom, and a chicken with nothing else to do may start pulling feathers from its flockmates and itself. So, yes, they do that, but not just from regular stress.
CAN it? Yes, a chicken COULD pluck herself. WOULD it? Most likely not. Parrots are MUCH smarter than chickens and generally self pluck due to being bored (the smarter the bird the harder to keep entertained), being lonely (chickens are usually in a flock), or needing a mate (generally male birds do it for this reason). Parrots also tend to be hand raised which means that they don't really know that they are a bird, they think they are human, so they will bond with a human the way they SHOULD be bonding with their family and mate if they were in the wild.I heard there was a parrot stressed and pulled all its feathers and hated everyone.
Do baby chicks also get stressed?CAN it? Yes, a chicken COULD pluck herself. WOULD it? Most likely not. Parrots are MUCH smarter than chickens and generally self pluck due to being bored (the smarter the bird the harder to keep entertained), being lonely (chickens are usually in a flock), or needing a mate (generally male birds do it for this reason). Parrots also tend to be hand raised which means that they don't really know that they are a bird, they think they are human, so they will bond with a human the way they SHOULD be bonding with their family and mate if they were in the wild.
No, I don't have chickens, I'm getting my chickens in the future.Do you have baby chicks missing feathers?
What are monogamous?Chickens can but they have much different psyches than parrots.
Chickens are flock animals and the larger flock, the better.
Most parrots are monogamous, mate for life and can do ok with no other animals/people.
I worked with scarlet and great green macaws in central America. We had a pair of scarlets one of whom continually plucked every feather. We knew it wasn't its mate because the bird still had all its head feathers.
Of the 400+ birds, some had been rescued from makeshift zoos, hotels, homes, etc.. Sometimes an owner dies and the bird is never right again since they outlive any human. People shouldn't own such long lived animals.