Snow is a budgie i bought from a petshop about a year ago.

I have always thought he was a male albino, because he is pure white, red eyes and has never developed a brown cere. ANYWAY i think i am totally WRONG. I think SHE is a DF Spangle. I don't think she has ever come into breeding condition and she has plum eyes with iris rings.

 

Anywaysss,

Her problem is she has lost alll the feathers above her cere, and she has a bit of a green vent (not much though) - her poos are normal shape and consistancy, just a little greener than what i class as "normal"

 

Is she having a bad moult? I have seperated her from the others.

 

 

I have just started giving moulting aid to my flock for 2 days a week for the last 2 weeks. I use this dose just to boost their vitamins a bit, without over doing it as they get a good diet of fresh food.

 

I have also changed the seed mix in the last two weeks. I used to use Trill, but the seed lost quality, so i am now giving quality seed from a feed supply shop.

 

Thanks

 

Liv

The loss of feather is unusual but looks to me like she has been rubbing her head on a perch. Maybe due to being itchy...any other signs of moulting recently ? Plum eyes are not a part of a DF spangle, but are a recessive pied trait.....with no iris rings if recessive. The red eyes of an ino look plum in an older ino...so I would say it is a male albino.

Edited April 24, 200817 yr by KAZ

S/he also has a blue tinge to the feathers in the sunlight, and a cinnamon tinge to the rump (but only in certain lights)... hehe

 

Other signs of moulting... I am not sure, I think he looks a scruffy, there is some short feathers absent from the tale area, a small thin patch at the top of one wing and thinning on the cheeks? the flights look messy too, but that might have been from my handling - he's a biter!!! **ouch!**

 

I haven't noticed him itching. I can not see any scaly face mite issues?

 

I am hoping that the diet change hasn't irritated him some how. All the others are fine. There have been a few fights etc after removing the nesting boxes, but the flock is settling down after their big change around.

Edited April 24, 200817 yr by **Liv**

Bluish tinge can also be an ino trait. Changing seed forces a moult too so you may have the birds going through a form of moult due to their diet change.

The adults are moulting. Bugger!! I didn't know about diet change causing moult I would have done it slowly....

 

He is not showing any pin feathers like the others are, but perhaps he is just a little behind them and having a bad moult??

The skin on the bald patch looks healthy.

 

Should i keep him separate and give him moulting aid daily (or something else - I bought all the meds/supplements you recommended to me)? Should i put him back in the aviary and give them ALL moulting aid daily, rather than twice weekly???

Edited April 24, 200817 yr by **Liv**

I dont think he needs to be seperated Liv