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VickiNumbers
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21
Age : 56
Location : Denver, CO, United States
My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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Posts : 1521
 |  Subject: Preening behavior?  Tue May 31, 2011 10:06 pm | |
| When JJ and Posei are in a cage together, I notice that in addition to the expected preening on the head and neck, I see them doing something that looks like pecking, nibbling, or even sometimes biting on each others feet. I've noticed that Bucky does it to his own feet a lot as well, but haven't noticed the other two giving that much attention to their own feet. What's up with that? Is this normal? Do birds preen each others feet? It seems odd to preen someone else's feet when it's something you could do yourself. Does anyone have any insight on this?  | |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Preening behavior? Tue May 31, 2011 10:27 pm | |
| My tiels did this to each other all the time. I vote normal!!  |
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patdbunny
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 53
Location : San Diego County, California
Posts : 2083
| | Subject: Re: Preening behavior? Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:44 am | |
| No idea if it's "normal", but yeah, I see my birds grab each others feet with their beaks pretty often. | |
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VickiNumbers
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21
Age : 56
Location : Denver, CO, United States
My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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Posts : 1521
| | Subject: Re: Preening behavior? Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:32 pm | |
| Okey dokey, that's good to know! I'm feeling better already!
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flappinhappy
Sun Conure
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 61
Location : Palmetto, Florida
My Birds : (R) denotes rescue birds
(R) Stacie, YN F
(R) Mickey, RL M
(R) Miss Kong, Panama F
(R) Binkie, YN F
Merlin, Gracie and Mercie my little Jack Yappers
44 chickens and 2 turkeys
Posts : 323
| | Subject: Re: Preening behavior? Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:23 pm | |
| 2 things, the feet of parrots are just another beak lots of info is digested by their feet, if others seem TOO interested in 1 birds feet here is the SIMPLE test take a piece of scotch tape press it on the birds foot and look at it under a magnifying glass (your vet will charge about $30 for this) any parasites (mites) will get stuck and then you have a direction to move in. If no bugs then it is play, and learning and skills come from play | |
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VickiNumbers
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-21
Age : 56
Location : Denver, CO, United States
My Birds : Allie ~ Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure
Mickey ~ Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sam ~ Blue Front Amazon
Caesar ~ Bronze Wing Pionus (actually my HUSBAND's bird *grin*)
Mack ~ Lutino Cockatiel
Forté and Duncan ~ Budgerigars
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Posts : 1521
| | Subject: Re: Preening behavior? Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:34 am | |
| Ms. Happy, you are a veritable FONT of information!
I am so glad I found you guys. You all have made my bird's lives, and my life so much richer. Thank you! | |
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flappinhappy
Sun Conure
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 61
Location : Palmetto, Florida
My Birds : (R) denotes rescue birds
(R) Stacie, YN F
(R) Mickey, RL M
(R) Miss Kong, Panama F
(R) Binkie, YN F
Merlin, Gracie and Mercie my little Jack Yappers
44 chickens and 2 turkeys
Posts : 323
| | Subject: Re: Preening behavior? Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:16 pm | |
| - Vicki5280 wrote:
- Ms. Happy, you are a veritable FONT of information!
I am so glad I found you guys. You all have made my bird's lives, and my life so much richer. Thank you! Thank yu very much for the compliment.  | |
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ScooterNScotty
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-24
Age : 63
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Scooter
* "Normal" male Green-cheeked Conure
* (hatched 3/2010)
Scotty
*male Cape Parrot
*(HD unk ~2008)
Blanco (Caballo Blanco)
*Whitefaced male cockatiel
*(HD unk, found 4/2012)
Posts : 2248
| | Subject: Re: Preening behavior? Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:38 pm | |
| Cool, that's interesting to know! | |
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