#feather plucking

[antimony-ore]

Hold up, was anyone going to tell me someone animated my boy 😍

#Jordy #blue and gold macaw #macaw #feather plucking #it him #housebroken #birbs #birbs of tumblr

[drabbles-of-writing]

Hi your wing au is giving me extremely bad brainrot, and now I’m imagining the hexsquad teaching Hunter how to preen his wings properly. Or Camila shifting into mom mode and sitting him down to preen them, because if she can handle Luz’s wings, she can handle this catastrophe of a cardinal. Hunter’s just confused by how much he likes having actually okay looking wings/someone caring enough to help him.

Poor Hunter hasn't had to do much more than make them not look like an absolute clusterfuck. The most he's had them look nice is when he's presented for meetings or in public, and oftentimes he just has these fake feathers he slips in-between his feathers that make them look prettier, grander, and less patchy than his plucking would have you believe. Even then, it's not exactly preening, it's just making the outermost feathers look presentable.

Course, they're even messier when he arrives at Hexside. What with how little he's been looking after himself Period and the whole Hollow Mind incident making him pluck a Lot more. Luckily Gus is no stranger to it (he's a 'gifted kid' of course he stress-plucked at some point) and knows a few good tips to curb it and also, y'know, properly handle wings. Chew toys, they find, are the biggest help with Hunter's habit.

It takes a while before he lets anyone else preen his wings, bird brain getting antsy and whatnot. But he preens them with Gus and/or Willow around, half because he wants to know if he's doing it right, half because it's the only way they got him to preen at first. But eventually, Gus at one point does mention a patch of messy feathers on the backs of Hunter's wings and Hunter complains he can never reach them, and Gus offers, as he has every other time. The difference is that, only after a second of hesitation, Hunter agrees.

#asks #wing au #the owl house #toh #hunter toh #cardinal #preening #gus porter #willow park #wing care #hexside #plucking #feather plucking #stim toys

[homeofhousechickens]

A plucking chicken.

This hens owner has tried treating her birds with basically everything known to man because she thought this was caused by a parasite like mites because some of her other hens were missing feathers around their necks and tails. What likely happened is this hen in the picture is the one who has the plucking problem and she taught the others to do it as well.

For most chickens feather plucking and eating is a misplaced foraging instinct but it can also be caused by nutritional deficiencies. The owner has them on a good diet and they do get to free range pretty often. Notice that the feathers on both black hens are shiny and healthy.

The hen in the picture had most of her feathers back but the owner left for a weekend, likely meaning the flock was kept in their run the whole time and when she returned this hen was missing lots of feathers. This is a clue that this isnt from mites, mites dont wait for you to leave for a few days to attack your chickens. This damage was likely caused by the hen herself, notice how the bald spots are places she can easily reach with her own beak. The disruption of her routine and not being able to free range is likely what made this hen relapse.

Feather plucking in a flock can be tricky because it only takes one bird to start it for it to become a problem. The best way to prevent it from happening is to buy birds from good breeders, make sure the birds have plenty of room in confinement, and the birds are given perches and enrichment so they can escape from each other and busy their brains.

I told the owner that she might want to get a skin scrape done at the vets on the hen in question in case it is mites but to be prepared for it to really just be behavioral.

I personally think the hen would be best rehomed in this situation to somewhere with a bigger run and more free ranging time on a larger property. Her current coop and run are honestly kind of small for the aamount of large fowl she has and doesnt have alot of enrichment. Some birds do perfectly fine in confinement but other like this hen can really struggle in some situations. The owner was wanting to get more birds and i really think that extra enrichment and perches need to be added in the run before that happens.

#chicken medical #feather plucking

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Man what the hell, saw someone on Instagram say “I mean sharks are definitely machines” on a video of that wonderful woman who removes hooks from sharks’ mouths 💀 “Whether or not sharks are sentient and experience joy, idk,” they say, on a video of a shark acting distant until she had a hook taken out of her throat, after which she became very cuddly and friendly with divers and would just lay in their laps. Not to mention these new sharks with hooks would just keep appearing to get their hooks removed! Some people do anything to assign fishes the title of “unfeeling machine”..

#still not as bad as dozens and dozens of people saying that the tyrannosaurus rex had wings! #because… “t. rex has small arms and bird wings look really small if you pluck the feathers” #this isnt overly serious just… baffling! #fish #shark #sharks

[rainbow-taishi]

Black Swan, upon peeking into her memories: Never mind- I'm outta here! Nope! Nope! Abort mission! Oh crap! Too much information!!!

Acheron: *enjoying dancing*

#cioccolatodorima #my drawings #anime #drawing #manga #game #hsr #honkai star rail #acheron #black swan #parody #jjk #fanart #shitpost #acheron really plucked off her feathers and cooked her #black swan was like lets poke and find out #she was so confident to be able to handle it. but got traumatized instead #anime style #im cackling because someone called it domain expansion infinite trauma on my post on twitter haha

[valictini]

Plucked feathers and dissociation

#qsmp #qsmp fanart #qsmp baghera #q!baghera #qsmp cucurucho #baghera lore #baghera jones #baghera fanart #qsmp headcanons #because I WANT to believe that the cucuruchos were Baghera’s caretakers #also #had to look up what plucked feathers looked like :( #pretty fucking awful #my art #static #child harm

[mawsmauls]

It's easy; like pulling teeth.

Only if it's me, only if they're yours.

#flight rising #frfanart #dragon art #fr skydancer #he plucks his feathers its ah stress related #oh um #insects #i guess #he's represented by a solifugae my fav animal #this is idioms dad! They look very similar #it is deliberate

[imorphemi]

Hermitgals but its a PRISM Corps au! Because I haven't stopped thinking about it

if you don't know, PRISM Corps is a magical girl universe created by ActuallyRea/Ginjaninjaowo. I drew Pearl as a prism magical girl a while ago for a daily pearl doodle, and later Gem as well, but now here's all of them!

These are still just sketches and rough ideas of what they'd look like because I'm bad at designing clothes, but I'm pretty happy with most of them :D

Notes about the gals and their weapons under the cut :3

I know that the girls change their hair color when they transform, but for the sake of keeping them more recognizable I did keep their hair colors the same as how I would usually draw them, plus sometimes some colorful streaks. Also their hair colors just happen to go pretty well with their color schemes anyways

Pearl - Weapon: Broom, has the ability to make anything it sweeps over disappear. Objects can be resummoned at a later time and will reappear once the prism is deactivated. She's usually part of the cleanup and damage control crew. Her Prism's name is Robbie!

Gem - Weapon: Still deciding on this one! Originally I put her weapon as twin swords but I'm reconsidering it. I also slightly changed her outfit design. Suggestions are very welcome for what her weapon should be, and feel free to be as creative as possible :D Her Prism's name is Mackenzie!

Stress - Weapon: Pandora's Box. A box that contains...something. We're not sure what it is, but it's some kind of spirit that is able to possess and take control of other people. There might even be multiple spirits. She can also trap other people in the box. Her Prism's name is Mochi!

Cleo - Weapon: Puppet Crossbeams, has the ability to control inanimate objects. Is also pretty decent at wacking people. I'm the least sure about Cleo's current design, I had a lot of trouble with it and would appreciate some suggestions and feedback because I am not a Cleo watcher haha. Her Prism's name is Stheno!

False - Weapon: Feather Blades. She can pluck the feathers off of her skirt to use as blades of any length. The amount of feathers she has is pretty decent and more than enough to get her through a standard fight, but it is limited. She'll have to wait for her prism to recharge again after using all of them. This is probably my favorite concept because it is dramatic as heck. I haven't decided on her Prism's name yet, but it'll probably be some kind of bird.

Storywise, False and Cleo joined the Corps around the same time, Stress some time after, and Pearl and Gem joined together later on. Out of this lineup, False is easily the most powerful, prism-wise and skill-wise, out of all the gals here. Maybe False gets to coach Pearl and Gem or something hehe

Oh! And this isn't all of them. A prism has gone rogue and there seems to be an independent magical girl in the city as well...

#my art #hermitcraft #hermitgals #PRISM Corps #pearlescentmoon #geminitay #stressmonster101 #zombiecleo #falsesymmetry #very proud of all these #like for false specifically #i just imagine that like shes in a really rough battle #and she only has a few feathers left on her skirt #(she has pants underneath dw lmao) #i really love the look of that i think its super cool #the feathers “oxidize” into the coppery green when she plucks them off #also i struggled with stress for a good while as well #mostly because initially i wanted to make a character page for her like pearl and gem #but i couldnt find a way for her to hold the box without it covering her outfit #which was actually the main motivation for drawing this lmao #anyways drop your suggestions ideas comments for the girls! #i need ideas #as someone who only watches pearl and gem adlfkjadfs

[post-it-notes7]

Any time Dragato asks about wings, GK’s happy to explain in the most passive aggressive way possible 

#galacta knight #meta knight #sir dragato #kirby right back at ya #post's art gallery #'does it hurt to pluck out a feather?' #'does it hurt if I pluck out your hair :)?' #and other fun conversations

[but-thats-idiocy]

So, I had an idea for a bookmark..

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #feathers shall not be plucked from live animals #ajb #feather bookmark

[homeofhousechickens]

Wow I wonder who is broody -_-

#Sugar #look at her face she will do it again #but she wont go broody when i want her to lol #girl you need to regrow feathers not pluck them to keep eggs warm!!

[eggwishing]

what now

#homestuck #davesprite #birds pluck their own feathers when they r distressed

[cannibalhellhound]

✨It's Done✨

Ice hurt his hand because Mav is a sneaky little eldritch creature and likes to climb on furniture instead of asking for help 👍🏼

#I love Slimey's dyed feathers #he's heated blanket material #Ice preens in his sleep #Sli and Mav have woken up with him plucking out pin feathers #it doesn't hurt it just tickles #they have recorded him doing it to multiple people without him noticing #wings au #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #ron slider kerner #top gun 1986 #top gun fanart #slicemav #slimav #slice #icemav #Air Gays™ #HelloI'mHayden

[facadep]

Brainrotting so hard over a certain character from Vanitas no Carte. Charles is so beautiful, just like an angel 💕

#vanitas no carte #vanitas charles #charles #vnc vanitas #vnc #vnc spoilers #my art #sketch #im a lil sick but i couldn't not sketch him #facadep #im gonna kiss him and pluck his feathers-

[casdeans-pie]

Every Thursday Cas finds a way to sneak a special angel feather into one of Dean's pockets - so he gets a tiny bit of extra good luck

The feather fades away after 24 hours and it actually uses a lot of Cas's energy to pluck it and hide it on Dean every week, but he likes to feel useful. he likes to feel like he's able to watch over Dean and protect him and help him. even just a little bit. even in just the small way he can as the Angel Of Thursday

#dean finds out one day and hes like So if I have two feathers does that mean Im twice as lucky??? #and Cas is getting ready to pluck every single feather from his wings before Dean is like NO no Im KIDDING dont do that #destiel #angel of thursday #castiel #destiel headcanon #have another soft sleepy headcanon before I go to bed I guess #castiel's angel powers #angel lore headcanon stuff #winged castiel #pie's headcanons

[codecicle]

Have voted for flippa (ofc), can I mayhaps have a chibo doodle

he can't believe they're BOTH undead and transgender. pretty n1fty c01nc1d3nc3!! ^_%

‼️ vote for either flippa or grizzly in the transmcytshowdown and send proof to get a little doodle of your request ‼️

#i make yet anothet post just for me 👍 #jrwi #chip #chip jrwi #quality is only gonna get MORE destroyed by tumblr my bad chief 🙏🙏 anyway i miss my little undead bastard #where is he. where is my 1/3 co-captain #uhh anyway little details.... chibo has a single feather in his hat that he plucks from jay everytime she uses her wings #and also gillion gave him a shell like once and never again but he held onto it and painted it gilly colors so he could have it on his hat #oh !! and polypirate matching rings around his neck #thats about it though. skin peeling and gray from being undead #little kuba kenta scars across his chest #the hole in his heart just like the hit song by gillion and the tidestriders #and a golden k-9 and molar because i said so ^_^ thats about it #posting this at 2:43 in the morning with school the next day godbless and godspeed soliders i am going to continue the requests #TOMORROW !!!!!! :DD