HEALTH
I have lost several birds with the following pattern. At first I notice a scaley face and a loss of feathers around the neck and beak. Within a relatively short period of time, four to five weeks, they have wasted away. Just prior to death their waste discharge becomes white and within hours they die. I have had autopsies with no answers other than the liver dissolved. Why are the neck/head feathers the start? Are those feathers supplied by certain organs of the birds body? Which of the bird's organs eventually shuts down transferring the discharge to white?