Cockatoo For Sale Adelaide
If you are interested in buying a Cockatoo and live in Adelaide, then please read the following warning.
A Cockatoo is a destructive and noisy bird.
50-60% of Cockatoos carry a severe and incurable disease called ‘Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD), and 99.99% of Cockatoos sold in Australian markets are trapped from the wild. Irrespective of whether you are told that a bird is bred in captivity, it is doubtful that it will be. Check out our store in Elizabeth South.
Adolescent cockatoos are prone to behavioral problems; they may become noisy, aggressive, and destructive; if they are not provided with enough physical or emotional support. At sexual maturity, some individuals develop seasonal behavioral problems such as aggression and will become difficult to manage. They can create issues of biting and screaming.
Common Bird Disease
Cockatoos are prone to several health problems like viruses that can kill them within a few months once they catch them. Cockatoos can have the following health issues genetically:
Feather Picking and Self- Mutilation
Feather picking not attributed to a medical cause is an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which a cockatoo picks at, plucks out or chews on its feathers.
Self-mutilation is a disorder where a bird chews on its own flesh, typically on the breast area or toes. As the bird chews on itself, nerve and tissue damage can result, causing increased discomfort, which may cause the cockatoo to chew even more.
Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD)
PBFD is caused by a circovirus that attacks the cells of the immune system and cells that produce the beak and feathers. It results in poor feather growth and feathers that don’t replace themselves when they fall out. In addition, the beak may become fragile and not be able to repair itself.
Since the virus targets the center of the developing bird’s immune system, infected birds often become immunocompromised and die of secondary infections, either bacterial, viral, or fungal. Currently, there is no known cure for PBFD. Infected cockatoos usually die a few months to a year after showing clinical symptoms of the disease.
Both disorders can be caused by household stress, boredom, or sexual frustration.
The following pictures are of a Cockatoo with PBFD
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After you have read the information we have provided above and still have your mindset on a Cockatoo, we recommend you contact DNA Solutions in Rowville, Melbourne, and obtain a PBFD test and a Psittacosis Test.
If we have convinced you that a Cockatoo is not the right choice for you, we would love to recommend many different types of hand-reared or hand-tamed baby pet parrots that will be perfect for you.
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