Oscar the Naked Dancing Cockatoo

I think this one speaks for itself.

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One of my CAGs plucks and barbers. It just kills me, but so far, there seem to be no more interventions nor cures than ten years ago. Sigh. . .

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I've been encountering information that correlates auto-immune disorders with the absence of certain parasites for which the creatures immune system is adapted to an expected response. Failing to respond to the missing pathogen, the immune system turns onto itself. Any chance Oscar was exposed to a lot of anti-biotics early in life or denied some aspect of the environment from which it would have picked up some species specific pathogen but had been denied exposure to it? Just a thought. I suppose even if she were such an example, there might be only a short window while young for the immune response to be expressed.