Grooming Your Lovebird

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Sarah and I’m here at Extra Care Animal Hospital today, and on behalf of expertvillage.com I’m going to tell you a little bit about learning a lovebird. As far as bathing your lovebird goes, birds don’t need baths like you would do with a dog or a cat. Something that you can do, a few options are to get plain spray bottle with plain water and just spray your bird once a day. This will encourage preening. What you saw the bird doing just a minute ago is completely normal preening. Generally, birds will do this usually twice a day for maybe 15-20 minutes. What he’s doing is just getting his feathers all cleaned up, getting everything laid in place where it should be, and just keeping his feathers in good shape. Once again, the behavior that you see now is completely normal. If he was actually pulling feathers out or doing damage to his skin or feather shafts, that will be considered abnormal and that will be considered feather picking. What you see right now is totally normal, he’s just keeping his feathers healthy. Another option for bathing would be just to take your lovebird in the shower and you can get a shower perch for your lovebird, or you can put him up if you have towel bar you can put him up on there. Being in there with you, getting a little bit warm water splashed on him or her will encourage her to preen also. You want to do some sort of bathing activity as this is going to help them keep their feathers in good shape. "