Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!ooblick
From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Cockatiel feather picking
Message-ID: <26C01015.189B@intercon.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 13:13:57 GMT
References: <1990Aug8.054800.677@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA
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If it were my bird, I would take the collar off.  First be sure you
CAN take it off safely.  If it were my bird I would also give it more
toys, start Nekton S and Bio, and perhaps even move the cage to another
part of the house for variety's sake.  I would also spray for mites/lice,
and leave the TV or a radio on in the bird's hearing/seeing range for
company when I was gone.

But of course, this is not meant as a "recommendation".  It's merely
what *I* would do :-).

Mikki Barry
Natural Intelligence Aviary