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If you have knowledge of birds could you please help me out Galah,2007-11-24 17:23:05

Hi there, I rescued a galah about 3 years ago from the road, She had been struck by a car and was injured.

Since then i have kept her as she wouldn'tve survived back in the wild with the injury to her wing.

The last 4 months she has been plucking her feathers, mainly from her chest and her back, She now has no pink feathers in those areas, they are now white,fine and fluffy.

She lives in the backgarden in a large cage, About 6 ft high and 3 or so metres wide, This is under an apple an apricot tree.

She is fed wild bird seed, grass, bottlebrush & fruit, I have rang a vet to come see her, as it would be too hard to remove her from the cage, This is in about 3 weeks though,

What could be wrong with her, I have heard of the possibility of a disease spread through foot and beak within wildbirds. She has a few times had wild birds in her cage when there was a gap.

How could i treat her?

Thanks in advance.

Answers:

I don't own a Galah, but did look into getting one. They're a fairly "needy" bird. They need a lot of mental stimulation and interraction. By the sounds of it, that bird may not be getting all the attention it thinks it needs. Feather plucking is a common sympton of this for most "parrot" type birds.

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I am sorry I know nothing of birds but I wanted to say you are an amazing person. Good luck.

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Been a while I had a bird. Sometimes they can get "Mites" and this may cause them to pick themselves. Most pet shops sell this little round can with holes you just hang on the outside of the cage and it get rid of them. A large cage as yours you may want to try a couple at different places, maybe one high close to where the bird perch and one lower.