Palm Cockatoo : Feather problem

Hi, everyone. I am new here.

I have a question regarding my friend Palm cockatoo's feather. (not efford to own one yet ) Its feather starting to change from black to partial yellowish/whitish and dropping. Wat causing this?? any medicine 4 tat??

My other friend palm is having the same problem 2 yrs ago, now only left some feather around the head. The feather was not plucking, simply dropped off. The bird health is absolute ok, eat well, eyes, beak, nostrils, legs and feces are alright. Is just the feather can not develop properly. So far it seem happened to palm only. I dun see this on other parrots.

HELP!!

Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (PBFD) is the probably cause. It is incurable and it is very uncommon that black cockatoos of either genus can get the virus, it is usualy seen commonly in white Cacatua cockatoos.

PBFD is generally considered fatal, with most infected birds surviving 6 months to 2 years after the onset of clinical signs. The PBFD virus is immunosuppressive and death usually occurs from complications due to secondary bacterial, viral, or fungal infections, or from terminal disease changes which necessitate euthanasia.

You may want to obtain a biological sample to send to a diagnostic lab for confirmation...

My early guess probably also pbfd, as I not quite know about pbfd. But their beak r in a good shape!! when u look at the palm it is totally a normal bird except without feather (down feather is there).

please isolate the bird from any other parrots to prevent the virus from spreading. the virus is air born and can find be in the faeces or the feather dust of the infected bird. The virus is fatal but there have been cases of survival from it.The parrot usually dies from starvation as the beak and legs will be deformed and the bird cannot eat.

Beaks are not necessarily affected or deformed in all cases of PFBD, at least not initially.

Could it be some sort of vitamin / mineral deficient?or other virus infection that only attack the feather. Their health condition r alright even one of it already having this problem for 2 years.

Anyone know who's keeping Palm?

PFBD

Maybe this website can shed some light to what PBFD is, contains of birds which are infected also.

There are quite a few people in SG keeping palms and some farms have larger breeding stocks of them.

None of these that I have seen have the symptoms which are chronic.

If you have been keeping and managing more birds than the one individual exhibiting symptoms, then it is probably unlikely that the cause can be attributed to nutrition.

PFBD is the main and common virus affecting feathers and the only way to eliminate this possibility is to obtain a sample for a virological test.

This virus can and will spread by close contact to other healthy birds.