Need help with roo loosing feather's *pics*

[Barnyard]

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No I do not have any parrots......just chickens

 

[purpletree23]

Ivan3...I'm sorry I just gave the same advice you gave. Don't want to seem like I'm stepping on toes. Time for bed I guess

Sorry again

 

[Barnyard]

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Thankyou Purpletree... I am stumped also. I sure hope they are just going through a hard molt. I will up the protien and do the vitamins and see what happens.

 

[WalkingWolf]

The pics you show look like early stages of Chlamydiosis, but I have only seen it on parrots. It is contagious to poultry, but the most likely source would have been somebody who has contact with your roo and an infected parrot. I certainly hope it is not that and he is just feather picking.

 

[Barnyard]

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Lord I hope not. What is the treatment for that or is it treatable?

 

[WalkingWolf]

I don't remember the treatment, it is incurable, but treatable. It was a lot more common in the days that parrots were still imported. When we lived in Fl we knew a couple people whose birds had contracted it. If you isolate your bird and it is feather picking the feathers should regrow to normal on his head. If not you might need to seek blood tests.

 

[ivan3]

BarnYard wrote: Ok Ivan, foregive me for my ignorance... What is sheathed?

Those `waxy' looking coatings on the neck feathers:
There could well be something else going on, but that's molting.

Purpletree23 wrote Ivan3...I'm sorry I just gave the same advice you gave. Don't want to seem like I'm stepping on toes. Time for bed I guess

Sorry again

Step all you like the more good info, repeated more often is the ticket (have to get some more coffee myself, thanks for the reminder

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[Barnyard]

OK, Thanks Ivan.... I thought that was what you were talking about. Just needed to make sure!

 

[ivan3]

Keep a close eye on those new feathers coming in. When the covering drops off check closely to see if those begin to degrade or look less than lustrous/healthy.

 

[Barnyard]

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Ok I will do that.