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Post by Hezz on Dec 16, 2015 4:49:53 GMT
That is a blood feather, deguchloe. When new feathers first come through, they have a blood supply as they are still growing. Once the feather is fully grown the blood supply slowly recedes to nothing. In the white-feathered birds the blood is easily seen; on dark feathers you probably would never notice it, unless one gets broken. They can bleed like a stuck pig if broken. So all in all, I think you have nothing to worry about; not mites, just normal birdy itchiness (particularly as they must have been moulting), and no blood, just a blood feather.
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Post by deguchloe on Dec 16, 2015 13:28:38 GMT
That is a blood feather, deguchloe. When new feathers first come through, they have a blood supply as they are still growing. Once the feather is fully grown the blood supply slowly recedes to nothing. In the white-feathered birds the blood is easily seen; on dark feathers you probably would never notice it, unless one gets broken. They can bleed like a stuck pig if broken. So all in all, I think you have nothing to worry about; not mites, just normal birdy itchiness (particularly as they must have been moulting), and no blood, just a blood feather. Yay!! :-D I've also been misting.the with a bit of warm water and this has also seemed to help. So how often do I keep the the Ivermectin 0.1 % spot on to prevent any mites coming back?
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Post by Hezz on Dec 17, 2015 1:39:12 GMT
You shouldn't have to. You can, every six months as a precaution, but if they are not outside that shouldn't be necessary. Misting them with tepid water is sometimes appreciated when they have their itchy pin feathers. This is the time that they just might accept a scratch from yours truly, as well.
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Post by deguchloe on Dec 17, 2015 17:58:00 GMT
You shouldn't have to. You can, every six months as a precaution, but if they are not outside that shouldn't be necessary. Misting them with tepid water is sometimes appreciated when they have their itchy pin feathers. This is the time that they just might accept a scratch from yours truly, as well. Thank you I have misted them a few times and they are defo alot less itchy this week
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Dec 17, 2015 18:18:49 GMT
That's good to hear
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Post by Hezz on Dec 18, 2015 0:12:06 GMT
Problem solved.
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Post by deguchloe on Dec 18, 2015 21:03:26 GMT
They have loved being let out again but they keep attacking my tinsel!
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Post by Hezz on Dec 19, 2015 1:00:44 GMT
As long as they are not trying to eat it! Smudge took great delight in nipping off lots of little stars on some "christmas string" that I used to hang some things up around the place last year. I found little silver stars in some weird places for months after.
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Post by deguchloe on Dec 21, 2015 22:38:48 GMT
As long as they are not trying to eat it! Smudge took great delight in nipping off lots of little stars on some "christmas string" that I used to hang some things up around the place last year. I found little silver stars in some weird places for months after. They haven't got time to eat it as I shoo them off sharpish little monkeys
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