What causes a conure to start feather plucking?

What causes a conure to start feather plucking?

Barking dogs, especially, can trigger your conure’s fight-or-flight response. Without a way to escape its cage, however, your conure will turn that nervous energy toward feather plucking. Keep noise levels down. Noisy children, loud music, and other disruptive sounds can cause your conure to stress out.

How can I get my bird to stop plucking its feathers?

Mist your conure. Using a small spray bottle filled with water, mist your conure a few times daily. This will encourage it to engage in normal, healthy preening behavior instead of plucking. During preening, your bird will remove debris, break up feathers that grow close to the skin, and waterproof its feathers using natural oils.

What causes a conure to fight or flight?

Even other birds caged nearby can be a source of stress for your conure, especially if the other bird is of the opposite sex. Remove other pets to a location where the conure can neither see nor hear them. Barking dogs, especially, can trigger your conure’s fight-or-flight response.

Barking dogs, especially, can trigger your conure’s fight-or-flight response. Without a way to escape its cage, however, your conure will turn that nervous energy toward feather plucking. Keep noise levels down. Noisy children, loud music, and other disruptive sounds can cause your conure to stress out.

What to do if your bird plucks its feathers?

If your bird is otherwise healthy try this before visiting the vet. The more we deal with feather plucking, feather picking and other forms of self-mutilation the more we find that many cases have nutritional backgrounds and nutritional solutions. However there are a number of medical conditions that will cause birds to pluck.

Which is the best product for feather plucking?

So Feather-Up (or Daily Essentials3), CalciBoost and Potent Brew are our regular recommendation for feather plucking birds. If nutrition alone fails to fix the problem there may be a role for herbal or homeopathic remedies.

Why is calcium a problem for feather pluckers?

The first dietary issue is calcium. Because calcium is involved in nerve and brain function a shortage of calcium can lead to many nervous disorders including plucking. Often it is the key “missing” ingredient. CalciBoost is now always a part of our recommendation for feather pluckers as it has a calming effect.