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Allergic to Cockatiel?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mamaof5" data-source="post: 367698"><p>It's not necessarily a resp issue with allergies to birds. Most peticine species (cockatiels, conures, budgies, green cheeks, parrolettes, lovebirds, cockatoos especially) have something called feather dust, it's a naturally occurring dander that lubricates the feathers and comes from feather sheaths (when the feathers grow in). Normally cockatiels don't really put out a lot of feather dust (aka dander) mostly bigger peticine species do like cockatoos, macaws, parrolettes. Low dust birds are cockatiels, conures, and budgies.</p><p></p><p>It could be a reaction to the feather dust, it could be a reaction to a new food the bird is eating, maybe a new toy? They beak everything and step on everything. Again, it could be a new allergy to the bird or to the birds excretions as well (poop, pee). I have a conure myself (kiwi, nandayus). His feather dust isn't an issue for us but it can be a very big issue for immuno-compromised or allergy prone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mamaof5, post: 367698"] It's not necessarily a resp issue with allergies to birds. Most peticine species (cockatiels, conures, budgies, green cheeks, parrolettes, lovebirds, cockatoos especially) have something called feather dust, it's a naturally occurring dander that lubricates the feathers and comes from feather sheaths (when the feathers grow in). Normally cockatiels don't really put out a lot of feather dust (aka dander) mostly bigger peticine species do like cockatoos, macaws, parrolettes. Low dust birds are cockatiels, conures, and budgies. It could be a reaction to the feather dust, it could be a reaction to a new food the bird is eating, maybe a new toy? They beak everything and step on everything. Again, it could be a new allergy to the bird or to the birds excretions as well (poop, pee). I have a conure myself (kiwi, nandayus). His feather dust isn't an issue for us but it can be a very big issue for immuno-compromised or allergy prone. [/QUOTE]
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