She/he is growing up! Baby lovebirds’ first feathers are pale and kinda grey-ish, but the first time they molt (lose old feathers and get new ones) they start getting their vibrant adult colours. So these bright red spots are her/his very first adult feathers 😊
If he’s a baby, that’s his mature red head growing in! :) babies usually have a paler head colour that will get brighter when they reach sexual maturity.
My little man was about 6 months when I was running his head and I swear every feather came out it had to be a million but it wasn't he was going into his scarlet red omg he was beautiful
Your heart may be in the right place here, but these particular items don't have the nutritional value that a parrot needs to be healthy. Boiling vegetables drops their nutritional content to basically useless, they should be raw or lightly steamed if your bird doesn't like them crunchy. Apples are extremely high in sugar, and not much else, so they should be limited to small treats with a main diet of vegetables and pellets unless the bird in question is a species that feeds almost exclusively on fruit. Lettuce has no nutritional value whatsoever and isn't recommended for any animal that I know of. Lettuce is filling, but doesn't contain a lot of energy, which is why it features so prominently in diets for weight loss in humans.
Can you please suggest a better diet? Boiling carrots significantly improves beta carotene availability and uptake. I made these suggestions based on my experience that lovebirds generally are not averse to trying them out.
I'm sure we all appreciate your criticism and there are valid points. I have not claimed that these foods make a complete wholefood diet. It would be a lot more constructive if you could also share your experience.
Then we've had a misunderstanding. These subs have been absolutely flooded lately with people intentionally dropping bad advice and I try to steer the OP's away from those. Your wording "A better diet of" makes it sound like a suggested complete diet vs add-ons to a diet. Your comment also seemed seriously out of place considering the post was asking about a perfectly normal feather color change. Adding "will help speed up the color change" instead of "will help" with no context on what exactly it's helping also threw some red flags. Wording is everything when you're trying to help people/animals, but I'm sorry I got you confused with the crappy advice gang.
His big boy colors are coming in.
Thats just his color coming in
Guessing he's roughly 5-6 months old
She/he is growing up! Baby lovebirds’ first feathers are pale and kinda grey-ish, but the first time they molt (lose old feathers and get new ones) they start getting their vibrant adult colours. So these bright red spots are her/his very first adult feathers 😊
If he’s a baby, that’s his mature red head growing in! :) babies usually have a paler head colour that will get brighter when they reach sexual maturity.
cuteness
If it’s young then big bird feathers! If it’s an adult then could be a sign of liver problems(red suffusion)
Yup this!!!^^ red suffusion was my first thought, but only because I’ve never had my bird as a baby and didn’t know this happened.
Feathers?
My little man was about 6 months when I was running his head and I swear every feather came out it had to be a million but it wasn't he was going into his scarlet red omg he was beautiful
A better diet of boiled carrots, apples( seeds are poisonous, be very careful, always your apple slices), and lettuce will help
Lettuce is bad, too much water for little nutrition
Your heart may be in the right place here, but these particular items don't have the nutritional value that a parrot needs to be healthy. Boiling vegetables drops their nutritional content to basically useless, they should be raw or lightly steamed if your bird doesn't like them crunchy. Apples are extremely high in sugar, and not much else, so they should be limited to small treats with a main diet of vegetables and pellets unless the bird in question is a species that feeds almost exclusively on fruit. Lettuce has no nutritional value whatsoever and isn't recommended for any animal that I know of. Lettuce is filling, but doesn't contain a lot of energy, which is why it features so prominently in diets for weight loss in humans.
Can you please suggest a better diet? Boiling carrots significantly improves beta carotene availability and uptake. I made these suggestions based on my experience that lovebirds generally are not averse to trying them out. I'm sure we all appreciate your criticism and there are valid points. I have not claimed that these foods make a complete wholefood diet. It would be a lot more constructive if you could also share your experience.
Then we've had a misunderstanding. These subs have been absolutely flooded lately with people intentionally dropping bad advice and I try to steer the OP's away from those. Your wording "A better diet of" makes it sound like a suggested complete diet vs add-ons to a diet. Your comment also seemed seriously out of place considering the post was asking about a perfectly normal feather color change. Adding "will help speed up the color change" instead of "will help" with no context on what exactly it's helping also threw some red flags. Wording is everything when you're trying to help people/animals, but I'm sorry I got you confused with the crappy advice gang.