Rapidly moulting birds

The change of plumage of birds

The bird feathers are what give them beautiful and colorful picture that everyone proud. At the same time they must ensure the necessary waterproofing, valuable insulation, without of course ignoring their main role is to ensure airworthiness.

The seasonal moulting

The normal moulting or ecdysis (moulting) influenza, is a natural process that is intended to replace all worn and old wings. The launch time for most birds coincides with the warm and bright summer months and the duration is from one to about two months. 

The birds first throwing driving wings symmetrically on both wings and then the guide tail feathers. Below the capping wings trunk, starting with those that are in the back, chest, neck and past the wings of the head. 

The normal fall of the flaps is progressive and proportional to maintain the necessary balance symmetry in plumage, is not lost completely volatile ability of birds and not left unprotected to the weather. 

it is the time when the adult male canary stops to sing . 

Smaller than a year birds change their plumage at about 90 days, following the same order, without but to change the drive and guide wings. 
These wings will change in the next molt will usually come next summer. 

but if the young birds born in the early months of the year, the summer of their first year may begin re feathers change, as the second year for the moult. In this case will change all of their wings.

The rapid moulting birds

As independent organizations birds do not follow the rules and do not always obey the dictates of nature when you go into molt. While the time to change the plumage have been exhausted, we observe that some birds have not yet started to change their feathers. 

But because the plumage should definitely be replaced entirely and because winter is "imminent" fatal these birds are driven at a much faster than normal moulting.

We can not call it normal molt because it is not as well as we can be called abnormal molt because it also lacks the pathogenicity required. It is a hasty moult. 

A replacement wing rapidly, where the birds are literally "plucked" from one day to the next, is rapidly moulting bird. Is moulting who only encounter the fall and that the bird is required to replace all of the flaps in a very short time. 

The bird is currently exposed to any temperature change in the absence of physical protection, while the volatile capacity has greatly reduced if not, that has been suspended. He can not fly properly if living free in nature will certainly he found very quickly killed by predators.

Causes of rapid moult

In order to understand the problem and to look to find the appropriate solutions to help birds will certainly have to know the causes that led to this difficult situation, and it certainly is not easy. You need the dialogue subscription to extract safely concluded and through him to enrich the record.

The normal and smooth moulting presses bird body and creates nutritional needs. Easily therefore conclude that the order of the rapid moult has high demands, both in the diet and in the conditions that exist in the bird accommodation space in order not to compromise and his life.

• But what are the causes of a bird in good health to the body in such a practice change the plumage?
• What are the reasons that did not allow the bird to enter the process of physiological change of plumage?
• What are our own rearing mistakes deregulating the bird body and brought it in this situation?
• Given this rapidly moulting, how can we help the bird to meet the requirements?

Let's try to give answers to these questions and we might be able to place them in order of importance, the hope that through 'dialogue will be able to review possible errors, to enrich the answers to the update future, to elicit solutions and prevent future similar errors. 

If you avoid any mistake that would alter the biological clock of the bird, which will disrupt the body and would jeopardize his life, then we have achieved the desired and the bird will live normally and behaves accordingly.

a of the reasons for the rapid moulting are the living conditions or the bird lives indoors or outdoors. The conditions that they create the environment with all the main lighting in terms of intensity, duration and quality.

Also plays an important role and the temperature, humidity and general climate of the living space. Equally important is the delay time interruption of the reproductive process with the worst of all the prolonged, continuous and long play.

In several cases, reproductive effort observed in canaries even in August. Indeed, if the bird is "impregnated" with the various formulations of increasing reproductive allocation, then delayed further to pass resting phase.

Natural consequence of these efforts is the hormonal deregulation of the birds body and as a consequence the incorrect starting time of moult. 

The diet of the birds also has an important role in proper organic and hormone function influenza. One of the consequences of an unbalanced diet is the moult as well as susceptibility to all sorts of diseases.

Of course there are other causes that can cause molt but related pathology, beyond our topic and well covered by the article on the pathological moulting birds.