Hi everyone,

My budgie Rocky began his first moult around the 15th december and he is still moulting now. I had thought he had finished the other week but then he seemed to start losing feathers again. Does it usually last so long?

i may be wrong but i believe it can take about 2 months to complete? my green is moulting at the moment,he has lost his tail feathers so he looks really short! bless :bluebudgie:

Edited February 20, 200520 yr by pixie25

rocky also lost his tail feathers. I was really proud of them too. But now he has lovely long ones. He looks a right scruffy thing on his head though and round his cheeks where he has feathers sticking out. I'm sick of hoovering feathers up aswell. :bluebudgie:

You haven't seen my bird s yet then the vacuum cleaner is always on 3 birds are moulting in my house 2 budgie and 1 cockatiel what a mess!!!

your mum must be busy with the hoover then Imotive or do you have to do it yourself?

I do it by myself but whats a hoover we call it a vacuum....

Hoover is the name of a vacuum manufacturer.

I would have thought with your genious status you would have known that :bluebudgie:

hehe your funny iactually didn't kno becasue we live in canada we have different vacuum manufacturers like if you said you were...for example electrolux i wou have known what you were talking about...

James Spangler invented a portable electric vacuum cleaner - the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner. James Spangler formed the Electric Suction Sweeper Company to manufacture his new vacuum cleaner. In 1907, James Spangler, a janitor working in a Canton, Ohio department store, deduced that the carpet sweeper he used on the job was the source of his cough. One of his first customers was his own cousin, who was married to William Hoover, a saddlemaker and leather merchant looking for a new business. William H. Hoover was so impressed with the vacuum cleaner that his wife bought that Hoover bought into Spangler's business and patents, becoming the president of the Electric Suction Sweeper Company. William Hoover renamed the company the Hoover Company in 1922. James Spangler stayed on with the Hoover Company as the superintendent.

That doesn't prove anyhitng and we are getting a little off topic if you wann atalk about smartsd talj about it in the other post!

Ahem.....

back to topic.

 

The first molt can take a few months. Depending upon the temperature where you are, if you have the heat on I think that tends to bring on a molt as well. Ever since it got cold I have had feathers everywhere. Some days it looks like one of them exploded...

(Laughing out loud) im rolling on the floor with that joke some days it looks like one of them exploded that really is funny...but i don't get how heat makes moutls quicker...thanks for putting the topic on board!

heat doesnt make the moult quicker, but heat,amount of light all affect the condition of the bird so will affect the moult

Oh okay thanks hath one question is it normal for a baby aftyer its first mould to end up with a big change in color?