I separated today my birds - is it OK?

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I separated today my birds - is it OK?

Post by Koko » Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:58 pm

I don't know if I did the right thing...
My birds was chasing around the room and beeping oddly, but after that they sitting in the cage afternoon together and slipping snuggled and everything was OK. But I noticed that Batman lost some feathers on the neck, they were thinned. I looked in the feathers and I didn't see anything, only thinned feathers. Then I noticed that Balbino is plucking Batman's feathers. I decided to separate them for several days or week (?)...
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Re: I separated today my birds - is it OK?

Post by Spreckles » Wed Jan 20, 2016 11:13 pm

If one Bird is plucking the other it is a good idea to separate them.

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Post by Koko » Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:15 am

Spreckles thank you for your answer.
But I don't know how long I should keep them separated?
It's curious, but Batman plucked bird is the bird which is beeping something like: "Hey guy, where you are? Why I don't see you?"

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Post by slwatson » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:09 am

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Could one bird be preening the other one?
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Post by Spreckles » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:32 am

koko

Stacie asked a good question. Are they hurting each other or grooming each other?

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Re: I separated today my birds - is it OK?

Post by Koko » Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:54 pm

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Unfortunately, Balbino was not only preening Batman's feathers but also plucking them firmly and I noticed a feathers' deficiency on Batman's neck. He has not been bald yet, but the skin was shining through the feathers (the recess was noticeable) and I was afraid that I will look the bald Batman and some injuries on his skin (he hasn't got them yet luckily).
Batman was only grooming Balbino, without pulling.

But I see they are now like an old but good marriage: they are accosting and irritating each other but also cannot live without each other...

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Post by Spreckles » Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:08 pm

What are you going to do? I would separate.

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Re: I separated today my birds - is it OK?

Post by Koko » Fri Jan 22, 2016 3:44 am

They has been separated for three days and for now everything is ok, they are vowing and try to find each other, but they still have a good appetite and good sense of humour, they are not fluffy of sleepy. So I will wait several days and we will see, then I will try to go relate them. I bought them the mirror, the same as Spreckles gave her hen. I hope Balbino focuses on that and stop plucking Barman. Maybe he was bored? They have the pool, the swing and the spray millet, they were flying every day, but Balbino also was chewing the bars and after reading some posts here I know that it could be the indicator of boredom...

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Re: I separated today my birds - is it OK?

Post by Koko » Fri Jan 29, 2016 1:05 pm

Two days ago I connected my birds and... everything is OK. Sometimes they are chasing each another, pulling out of perks or something and yelling "Hey, what you are looking for? I am here!" and 'pik pik' ovr the head or beak but it is only 3 seconds or sth like that. And the best idea was to give them a mirror, look:
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