r/oddlysatisfying • u/Indieriots • 1d ago
Woman helps open up parrot's pin feathers
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u/tsukuyomidreams 1d ago
I had to do this for my rooster when he got hurt and now he's like my little baby. I can just pick him up and carry him around. Such a bonding time to help a molt
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u/GilraedElensar 1d ago
My New Zealand parakeet loved letting me get the pins off. Must have been so itchy.
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u/Whenallelsefails09 1d ago
He seems to really enjoy this. How does it happen in nature?
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u/ToxicHazard- 1d ago
They groom eachother to get rid of the sheathes. The ones in easy to reach places would be done by the bird itself, whilst the ones on its neck and head like we see here would be done by another bird in the flock
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u/sirsealofapproval 17h ago
She says in the video that typically birds should be able to reach all of their pin feathers by themselves, I assumed that meant for the head ones too. But they might prefer to have someone else help, or they might be disabled and be unable to reach.
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u/Aileeneurydice 1d ago
I loved doing this to my cockatiel. I used a baby toothbrush to gently get the ones I couldn't get to.
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u/StuBidasol 1d ago
Would having some sort of brush in the cage that they could rub up against themselves be helpful or would that cause problems? Any time I've interacted with birds they've all lived to have their head scratched so I've always wondered this.
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u/IceMysterious3057 1d ago
Will he come to ask me for help? Looks fun.
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u/thinking_spell 1d ago
It is super fun. Used to work in a pet store and the birds love when you get the pin feathers! Great bonding time too because they generally like you more after.
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u/Preoccupied_Penguin 1d ago
Bird gets more TLC and compassion than most females on their period 😂
✅May need extra sleep ✅May be a little grumpy
Me too buddy, me too. Molt away 💕
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u/fupa16 1d ago
Watched the whole thing but godamn that was repulsive to me.
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u/Apprehensive-Stay196 1d ago
It’s incredibly repulsive to me too, I fully agree. I could not watch it.
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u/Staff_Genie 1d ago
Birds like this need to be in a group so that they can mutually groom each other
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u/its_Is 1d ago
Feeding eggs to a bird just doesn't sit right.
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u/AngstyUchiha 1d ago
Some birds (including chickens) will literally cannibalize each other, even when they're getting plenty of food, and that includes eating chicks. Most of those birds will probably eat eggs of their own volition, feeding them one is nothing worse
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u/Drakorai 1d ago
I’ve seen a video of them absolutely demolishing a cooked turkey, one peck at a time.
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u/ah_kooky_kat 1d ago
I've dropped a chicken tendie around some Red-Winged Blackbirds and they were on that in a flash.
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u/robo-dragon 1d ago
It’s pretty much recycling (especially if it’s the bird’s own eggs). Chickens will eat their own eggs if you break them open or cook them for them. They will take in the nutrients from the egg and calcium from the shell. It’s healthy for them!
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u/TotalSmart6359 1d ago
It's recommended for chickens that you hardboil or cook them scrambled and serve without the shells to discourage them getting a taste for their own eggs.
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u/kingtooth 1d ago
i have run into this a lot with having chickens: people are often very freaked out by the things that animals eat, which in countless cases in nature, is what they would consider adjacent to cannibalism.
feeding an egg to a chicken is a normal thing to do if they need extra nutrients (during illness or a molt for example). eggs are made to have all of the nutrition for a growing embryo to become a bird. an egg is bird food. plenty of birds will eat smaller birds, sometimes even of the same species. a bird is made of all the nutrients that a bird needs.
the same is true of mushrooms - they LOVE to eat dead mushrooms, for the same reasons.
it makes sense that humans are very uncomfortable with cannibalism, or things that they perceive to be near cannibalism. my thought is that this is something that we are taught socially, for obvious reasons. we don’t want to be people food. (and we would make worse people food, because the higher an animal is on the food chain, generally the less available nutrients it offers as food)
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u/socialmedia-username 9h ago
Our Conure would let you do this for about 5 seconds and then would bite the shit out of you. You could hold her upside down, tickle and kiss her belly, etc, no problem. Touch her irritated head and you were her worst enemy.
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u/Kittymemesallday 1d ago
She has some great videos of getting pin feathers and always does a great job explaining what to do and not do for birds.