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A blog about my beautiful budgies.
Two weeks in the life of a blood feather
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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Wow, that looks like it was brutal! Poor fellow.
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That is a good word to describe it – brutal!
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Poor Bezukhov! But what beautiful spot feathers!
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Yes, I can’t resist saving his spot feathers – they are beautiful.
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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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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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