Post by budgiebudgie on Mar 28, 2015 13:20:26 GMT
Hello, it's me again - hope I'm not making a nuisance of myself, but I have a query.
My little bird (approx five months old) has got tiny spots or blobs of 'white' in her (white) wing feathers. Not in the longer 'uplift' feathers or tail feathers, but these white spots are in the feathers that are shortest - the ones you don't cut, if you clip a bird's wings (and I don't).
They look as though she has got something in them - a human equivalent would be crumbs in someone's moustache - but they aren't foreign bodies. If they were, she shake them loose when she fluffs up or flies. They also have a vague resemblance to spots of TippEx (and once again I know that it isn't this).
She definitely has been shedding little short wing feathers, so I'm presuming they are stubbs or stumps where the feathers have come out. Would this be right? I have tried to tease them away with my fingers but of course when she's in my hand her feathers are compressed, and she isn't wild about me doing this as you can imagine.
Should it look as though there are stubs, when a feather falls out? Is five months the right age to be losing feathers? Any wisdom gratefully received as ever.
My little bird (approx five months old) has got tiny spots or blobs of 'white' in her (white) wing feathers. Not in the longer 'uplift' feathers or tail feathers, but these white spots are in the feathers that are shortest - the ones you don't cut, if you clip a bird's wings (and I don't).
They look as though she has got something in them - a human equivalent would be crumbs in someone's moustache - but they aren't foreign bodies. If they were, she shake them loose when she fluffs up or flies. They also have a vague resemblance to spots of TippEx (and once again I know that it isn't this).
She definitely has been shedding little short wing feathers, so I'm presuming they are stubbs or stumps where the feathers have come out. Would this be right? I have tried to tease them away with my fingers but of course when she's in my hand her feathers are compressed, and she isn't wild about me doing this as you can imagine.
Should it look as though there are stubs, when a feather falls out? Is five months the right age to be losing feathers? Any wisdom gratefully received as ever.
It is quiet at the moment, some of the more experience people will be around later, they usually are. I have had Jo 16 months, Pippin 2 weeks and still ask questions.
I am very attached to her. We have a very strong budgie-owner bond - sometimes to the point where she becomes a bit of a nusiance, such as this morning I was drying my hair, she was on my shoulder, I put the hairdryer on (which she's seen and heard a few times before) but she didn't fly off straightaway, making it difficult to dry my hair. I guess she likes the warm air on her. I don't mind her being on me - in fact I really like it.
