Baldy

[ruthieharris]

look at the state of him , dont know how the hell he did this, found him like this this morning when will it grow back the next moult? ?Maybe he's hitting middle age looks like the width if the wire

[jusdeb]

Good grief that could have been nasty if it was an incident with the wire .

Funny little bugger has a reverse mohawk.

[desertbirds]

Highly likely that was the result of a night fright or a serious predator during the day. It will grow back starting immediately but takes a few weeks.

[Tintola]

It's amazing what recuperative powers birds have.

A few years ago I had a hen Bulbul severely mauled by a pair that wanted the aviary to themselves. They totally scalped her to the point of death, couldn't even open her eyes. Should I just have put her out of her misery?...... no. I force fed her for two days until her eyes opened and she could feed herself. Over the next few months she not only grew back all the skin over her naked skull but also grew back all the feathers and a perfectly formed crest. I was amazed!!!!

Second story
When I was a kid I had budgies in with a pair of Eastern Rosellas. The hen Rosella ripped the whole beak off the hen budgie when fighting over a nest box. The budgie only had a round tongue poking out of an otherwise flat face (no beak at all)
Over the next couple of months, with her mate feeding her, both mandibles grew back perfectly just as a fingernail would after it has fallen off.

Any more stories like this?

[teg33]

I was reading a story in ABK, and this person was talking about that he had a pair of twenty eight parrots in an aviary next door to his ecelectus hen. The ecelectus parrot (can't spell ) had grabbed hold of one of the twenty eight parrot's lower beak and ripped it off. The author said that he still has this twenty eight parrot and she is alive and well!

[Pete Sara]

you should call the stooge larry
...pete

[Tintola]

you should call the stooge larry
...pete

[Pete Sara]

he has a bald patch like larry from the 3 stooges tintola, gee you would be old enough to remember them.......night frights are a big thing around here at the moment in between mice and birds of prey it doesnt take much to get a few to panic ......pete

[HARVEY123456789]

is weird how bird recover so well , i have a whote zeb hen that i inhereted from my nan that is missing 3 toes on her right foot but she can still berch ect

[Tintola]

he has a bald patch like larry from the 3 stooges tintola, gee you would be old enough to remember them pete

Only just old enough, I remember my grandfather talking about them.