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I am curious what the typical length of time for a gouldian to molt is? I am speaking about their normal adult yearly molt and not the juvenile molt. We have a BH.PB. Single Factor YB male that molted in about 3 maybe 4 weeks. Most of our other birds take longer than this and I am just curious if this is sometimes expected. He looks great now but it was just really fast compared to what we have seen from the past.

I always find it interesting that birds in the same clutch will molt at different levels. All conditions are the same, but some molt more quickly; some take forever it seems to finish (same with obtaining coloring...much difference in the same clutch)

I have 2 clutchmates, 1 about 3/4 of the way finished molting, the other one has not started yet.

Again, I'm not asking about the juvenile molt, I'm curious if anyone has had an adult bird molt that fast.

woops Sorry Phil, didn't mean to way-lay your post

One of my males took about 4-5 weeks. Not sure if I've had one molt through in three weeks though...