What is the reason why parrots keep biting their feathers?

Most of them suffer from feather pecking and malnutrition.

Allergies or endocrine disorders.

can cause feather pecking.

Feather pecking occurs more often in parrots and poultry, and feather pecking is often seen in the process of poultry rearing. After the appearance of feather pecking in birds, it leads to an increase in the mortality of poultry flocks, reducing the performance of broilers.

Due to the uneven feathers, it also affects the first and reduces the economic benefits.

The parrot's physiological chewing or grasping of its feathers may be caused by:

1. Nuts, peanuts, malt and nuts (in shell) are contaminated with mycotoxins;

2. Because of its own low blood calcium;

3. Because of the appearance of some bacteria, viruses and fungi;

4. Heavy metal poisoning;

5. In vitro or in vivo parasites;

6. Dryness and itchiness caused by irregular bathing due to moulting.

Normal feathering: Parrots are a kind of clean-loving birds, they usually groom their feathers very diligently, and the capillary skin is broken during moulting, and a peck of the feathers can make it faster. Infectious Diseases:

When parrots are infected with featherpes, cause ** diseases or have parasites, they will produce local wounds, and they will always peck at feathers.

1. Comb feathers normally

Parrots are a kind of birds that love to be clean, they usually comb their feathers very diligently, and parrots have tail fat glands in their bodies, they will secrete a kind of thing to protect their feathers, and they are often easy to rub on the feathers.

2. Infectious diseases

Parrots are infected with featherpes, cause ** disease or have parasites, they will produce local wounds, they will always peck feathers, usually during the management period to pay attention to the balanced supplement of food, can not be fed the same kind of feed, and often provide parrots with vegetables, fruits and other food.

3. Prevention methods

In the process of raising parrots, it is best to provide them with wide, wing-only cages, and when they are relieved of stress, they will regrow their feathers, and if the parrot's pecking phenomenon still does not improve, you can use a thick cardboard ring to put around its stem.

4. Living habits

Wild parrots mainly feed on plant fruits, seeds, nuts, berries, shoots, twigs, etc., and also eat a small amount of insects, pollen, nectar, etc., they often use a strong hooked beak and flexible toe-shaped feet in the feeding process, and more than 72% of individuals tend to use their left foot to grasp food.

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Parrots always peck at their own body Duan Chen, and this phenomenon should be one of the "feather pecking" behaviors. Feather pecking is caused by many reasons, in the practice of feeding often encounter the situation of slippery, the following is a brief description of several common reasons, for the questioner's analysis of reference:

1.Feather pecking can be related to moulting, also known as "moulting", during which the parrot will bite its feathers due to discomfort during the moulting.

2.Long-term feeding of a single letter burning rock food resulting in a lack of trace elements can also cause parrots to peck feathers.

3.Ectoparasite invasion. Ectoparasites are also one of the important causes of parrot pecking feathers. The above situations are the more common causes of feather pecking, and the questioner can refer to them to find out the reasons.

<> budgies bite their feathers, most of them get feather pecking, which can be caused by malnutrition, allergies or endocrine disorders. Budgies have a single diet and are prone to feather pecking if they lack nutrients. Food allergies or parasite infections can also cause parrots to peck at their feathers, and breeding parrots pluck their feathers to make nests.