Originally Posted by
Shyra
Harley (tag) will be 13 next month. The past two-three years her hormones have been off the charts and she even started plucking her chest last year and not letting her feathers grow back. Vet didn't find anything. She's plucked in the past due to hormones and needed medication to help calm them. The vet thinks it just became a habit last year. That being said...Just this week she's started hunting dark spaces and has even bit me a couple times for trying to remove her from areas. She's never done this no matter how bad her hormones were. Harley is the only female bird I've had and has never laid an egg. My question is should I be concerned she might, should I be doing something special in her diet just in case, do your birds give any warning they might be getting ready to lay eggs? Or maybe it's just a new phase for her and I'm over thinking it? Any thoughts would be appreciated.