Puddings & Toyboys
A blog about my beautiful budgies.
Unfeathered forehead
Posted by on 13 June 2013
In a previous post I had mentioned Phinny’s forehead was looking quite bare.
He lost his feathers above his cere quite suddenly. In fact, the morning I noticed, my first thought was that he had been in a terrible fight, but then I realised he had spent the night in his cage on his own & not even he, Mr Trouble himself, could manage to fight on his lonesome. So the missing clump of feathers, as alarming as they looked, must simply be due to a moult.
Over the following days, his forehead looked rough. Very rough. Poor boy. But then the pin feathers started coming through & he returned to being his usual handsome, troublesome self.
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Poor Mr P! No wonder he’s been so grumpy. Though I guess it’s not really an excuse for CONTINUED grumpiness …
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I don’t think his behaviour changed much whilst he had those pinnies… if at all!
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Ow, that does look sore
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I was quite surprised how bad it looked at times!
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Thak you for that post – I was a little worried about my poor boy Frodo – he’s lost some feathers above his cere, but after seeing your posts, I realise that’s it’s just a tough molt. Whicj would also explain the grumpiness and not wanting to leave his cage…
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I am glad this post was of help. 🙂 Sometimes, the feather loss can look quite severe! I hope Frodo comes out of his moult soon & returns to his usual non-grumpy self. 🙂
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