There are a number of disorders and disease that can affect birds skin and feathers. Some which can be inherited, contracted, or behavioral in nature.
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- Common Skin and Feather Disorders in Pet Birds Part I Many diseases and disorders can affect your birds skin and feathers, including mites, baldness, cysts, behavioral feather picking, polyfollicles, and brown hypertrophy.
- Feather Picking and Self-Mutilation in Companion Birds Defines this destructive behavior, causes, contributing factors, and recommendations.
- Feather Plucking In Parrots Discusses some common causes such as malnutrition, psychological stress, parasites, and internal organ disease in relation to this behavioral problem in birds.
- Broken Blood Feathers How to attend to a broken blood feather in cockatiels and provides a link on how to find an avian vet.
- Feather Picking Provides information on birds that engage in feather-destructive behaviors such as chewing, plucking, barbering and pulling of feathers, and skin mutilation. Includes articles and a case history.