Do you think this is normal?

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Do you think this is normal?

Post by David » Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:45 pm

One of my female zebras make me worry, do you think this is just feather off on her head? The male never pick or pluck her, I observe everyday and realize her head still looks the same for couple weeks. Is there any info I need to know and how to cure her? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Do you think this is normal?

Post by wildbird » Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:32 pm

Your cage looks way too small, much taller than it is wide. Finches need length to fly across. Could you find one 26 to 30 inches across? The exercise will cut down on stress, help prevent egg binding and lengthen their life span.

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Post by CHIRP » Sat Sep 27, 2014 2:36 pm

Gee yes, you must really get a large cage friend, shame man, that's not good. The smallest cage for a Zebra must be at least 3 foot across, they need to fly, that's not good.

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Re: Do you think this is normal?

Post by David » Sat Sep 27, 2014 2:54 pm

Actually they both transferred from a flight cage, because she was kind of bald on the head area, so I put them here for a week. I will put her back to my flight cage which is 4 times bigger than this one. I just want to know why her head looks like this, she was like this already when in bigger cage.




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Re: Do you think this is normal?

Post by David » Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:10 pm

I don't have a hospital cage yet so I put them in the small cage, but I just put the male away from her for temporary in another cage. Just don't know what's the symptom or why her head became bald and showing some pink color :( any advices would be great, thank you!




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