Clinical Approach to Feather Picking Disorders in Pet Birds
Describes areas of feather picking, if it is behavioral or medical in nature, and how this problem is handled.
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 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.
How to Manage Feather-Picking in Caged Birds
Provides details on the differences between normal preening, lack of preening, and destructive feather picking.
Knemidokiptic Mange in Pet Birds: Scaly Face and Scaly Leg Disease
Describes the lesions of the skin produces by mites and the treatment options for it.
Research on Feather Diseases - Part I
Provides results on budgerigars. Discusses pulpitis, mites, cysts, stress marks, and feather dusters. Part II describes tumors, multifeathers, distortions, splits, follicles, vitam…