Feather Destructive Behaviors Guide
One of the most challenging and frustrating tasks to correct is feather destructive behaviors. With science still trying to learn more about these behaviors, the causes, and effective treatments, it seems hopeless. Caretakers try everything to try and diminish these concerns, sometimes with little to no success. Resources online are untrue, outdated, or not complete, diminishing your trust and confidence in resolving the issue. If you have a bird that mutilates their plumage, like plucking, barbering, or chewing into their muscles, tendons, even pulling out bones, then this informational packet may be for you.
This is a 16-page downloadable, printable document focused on feather destructive behaviors. It is a generalized review of the behavior, possible causes, management, and methods of how to heal. All information is from owner Melanie Canatella’s personal experiences working with hundreds of rescue birds with feather destruction behaviors and helping them decrease or completely diminish the behavior. Information is also backed by peer-reviewed, scientific published work from industry professionals, veterinarians, and scientists.
What is discussed is
· What are Feather Destructive Behaviors
· What are some causes and reasons for a bird to start with these behaviors?
· Ideas on ho to decrease the behaviors from all aspects including medical, behavioral, and environmental therapies
The benefits to reading this compiled informational document include:
· A new education on your birds’ behaviors
· Management methods to help decrease or diminish feather destructive behaviors
· A reference document file to have forever
· Nine other articles listed in APA format to continue your reading and education
Unsure if this is for you? Here is a short synopsis of just the first page of the 16-page document:
“Feather destructive behavior is still not well understood, even though an estimated 10% of the entire parrot population has feather damaging behaviors (Bergers et al., 2013). Feather damaging behavior can be described as an exaggeration of normal preening behaviors which includes puling feathers out (plucking), fraying feathers (barbering), or biting consistently resulting in removing or damaging plumage (Bergers et al., 2013). Feather damaging can be categorized as a grooming disorder that serves physical and social purposes. It is generally a self-inflicted behavior, but in social settings, another bird may damage flock members feathers as well (Buitenhuis et al., 2009).”
Disclaimer: Author Melanie Canatella is not an avian vet, but a behavioralist and trainer, therefore any advice suggested should be consulted with an avian vet first and the process should be guided with a professional trainer, like Fluff and Feathers for the best success. The goal for suggesting these methods is to present to your vet or trainer to check viability of success for your specific bird. This class does not claim to be able to 100% stop your bird’s feather destructive behaviors. This is education about the behaviors and treatments to try to help decrease the behaviors, though diminishing them may also be a result from this document. Training plans are not given in this document, as ever bird and situation is an individual. Therefore, it would be dishonest and ineffective to give a blanketed training plan for every bird on a document. If you are looking for more personalized training to decrease these behaviors, you can always book a behavior consultation with us, Fluff and Feathers, through out contact page.
One of the most challenging and frustrating tasks to correct is feather destructive behaviors. With science still trying to learn more about these behaviors, the causes, and effective treatments, it seems hopeless. Caretakers try everything to try and diminish these concerns, sometimes with little to no success. Resources online are untrue, outdated, or not complete, diminishing your trust and confidence in resolving the issue. If you have a bird that mutilates their plumage, like plucking, barbering, or chewing into their muscles, tendons, even pulling out bones, then this informational packet may be for you.
This is a 16-page downloadable, printable document focused on feather destructive behaviors. It is a generalized review of the behavior, possible causes, management, and methods of how to heal. All information is from owner Melanie Canatella’s personal experiences working with hundreds of rescue birds with feather destruction behaviors and helping them decrease or completely diminish the behavior. Information is also backed by peer-reviewed, scientific published work from industry professionals, veterinarians, and scientists.
What is discussed is
· What are Feather Destructive Behaviors
· What are some causes and reasons for a bird to start with these behaviors?
· Ideas on ho to decrease the behaviors from all aspects including medical, behavioral, and environmental therapies
The benefits to reading this compiled informational document include:
· A new education on your birds’ behaviors
· Management methods to help decrease or diminish feather destructive behaviors
· A reference document file to have forever
· Nine other articles listed in APA format to continue your reading and education
Unsure if this is for you? Here is a short synopsis of just the first page of the 16-page document:
“Feather destructive behavior is still not well understood, even though an estimated 10% of the entire parrot population has feather damaging behaviors (Bergers et al., 2013). Feather damaging behavior can be described as an exaggeration of normal preening behaviors which includes puling feathers out (plucking), fraying feathers (barbering), or biting consistently resulting in removing or damaging plumage (Bergers et al., 2013). Feather damaging can be categorized as a grooming disorder that serves physical and social purposes. It is generally a self-inflicted behavior, but in social settings, another bird may damage flock members feathers as well (Buitenhuis et al., 2009).”
Disclaimer: Author Melanie Canatella is not an avian vet, but a behavioralist and trainer, therefore any advice suggested should be consulted with an avian vet first and the process should be guided with a professional trainer, like Fluff and Feathers for the best success. The goal for suggesting these methods is to present to your vet or trainer to check viability of success for your specific bird. This class does not claim to be able to 100% stop your bird’s feather destructive behaviors. This is education about the behaviors and treatments to try to help decrease the behaviors, though diminishing them may also be a result from this document. Training plans are not given in this document, as ever bird and situation is an individual. Therefore, it would be dishonest and ineffective to give a blanketed training plan for every bird on a document. If you are looking for more personalized training to decrease these behaviors, you can always book a behavior consultation with us, Fluff and Feathers, through out contact page.
One of the most challenging and frustrating tasks to correct is feather destructive behaviors. With science still trying to learn more about these behaviors, the causes, and effective treatments, it seems hopeless. Caretakers try everything to try and diminish these concerns, sometimes with little to no success. Resources online are untrue, outdated, or not complete, diminishing your trust and confidence in resolving the issue. If you have a bird that mutilates their plumage, like plucking, barbering, or chewing into their muscles, tendons, even pulling out bones, then this informational packet may be for you.
This is a 16-page downloadable, printable document focused on feather destructive behaviors. It is a generalized review of the behavior, possible causes, management, and methods of how to heal. All information is from owner Melanie Canatella’s personal experiences working with hundreds of rescue birds with feather destruction behaviors and helping them decrease or completely diminish the behavior. Information is also backed by peer-reviewed, scientific published work from industry professionals, veterinarians, and scientists.
What is discussed is
· What are Feather Destructive Behaviors
· What are some causes and reasons for a bird to start with these behaviors?
· Ideas on ho to decrease the behaviors from all aspects including medical, behavioral, and environmental therapies
The benefits to reading this compiled informational document include:
· A new education on your birds’ behaviors
· Management methods to help decrease or diminish feather destructive behaviors
· A reference document file to have forever
· Nine other articles listed in APA format to continue your reading and education
Unsure if this is for you? Here is a short synopsis of just the first page of the 16-page document:
“Feather destructive behavior is still not well understood, even though an estimated 10% of the entire parrot population has feather damaging behaviors (Bergers et al., 2013). Feather damaging behavior can be described as an exaggeration of normal preening behaviors which includes puling feathers out (plucking), fraying feathers (barbering), or biting consistently resulting in removing or damaging plumage (Bergers et al., 2013). Feather damaging can be categorized as a grooming disorder that serves physical and social purposes. It is generally a self-inflicted behavior, but in social settings, another bird may damage flock members feathers as well (Buitenhuis et al., 2009).”
Disclaimer: Author Melanie Canatella is not an avian vet, but a behavioralist and trainer, therefore any advice suggested should be consulted with an avian vet first and the process should be guided with a professional trainer, like Fluff and Feathers for the best success. The goal for suggesting these methods is to present to your vet or trainer to check viability of success for your specific bird. This class does not claim to be able to 100% stop your bird’s feather destructive behaviors. This is education about the behaviors and treatments to try to help decrease the behaviors, though diminishing them may also be a result from this document. Training plans are not given in this document, as ever bird and situation is an individual. Therefore, it would be dishonest and ineffective to give a blanketed training plan for every bird on a document. If you are looking for more personalized training to decrease these behaviors, you can always book a behavior consultation with us, Fluff and Feathers, through out contact page.