Skin and Feather Disorders Websites

Many diseases and disorders can affect your birds skin and feathers, including mites, baldness, cysts, behavioral feather picking, polyfollicles, and brown hypertrophy.

Defines this destructive behavior, causes, contributing factors, and recommendations.

Discusses some common causes such as malnutrition, psychological stress, parasites, and internal organ disease in relation to this behavioral problem in birds.

How to attend to a broken blood feather in cockatiels and provides a link on how to find an avian vet.

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.