Puddings & Toyboys

A blog about my beautiful budgies.

Two weeks in the life of a blood feather

7 Comments Posted by on 4 May 2017

Bezukhov has been going through another moult.  This time his head feathers have been completely overhauled.

Here he is at the beginning, looking fine, even though he had lost 3 spot feathers in one go:

Bezukhov at beginning of moult
Three spots

This slideshow shows progress over the two weeks:

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7 responses to “Two weeks in the life of a blood feather”

  1. homekeethome 5 May 2017 at 13:35

    Wow, that looks like it was brutal! Poor fellow.

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  2. rosebudgie 5 May 2017 at 18:05

    Poor Bezukhov! But what beautiful spot feathers!

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  3. Maggie 5 May 2017 at 19:52

    I feel sorry for the poor bird, that must have been really unpleasant for him. I wonder what causes such extreme moult. I had budgies but I’d never seen anything like it.

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    • onesweetiepea 9 May 2017 at 22:12

      Thank you for your comment. When I had budgies many years ago, I don’t recall any of them having such bad moults. Either my memory is bad (!) or something has changed over the years that makes them more severe.

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