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Sent to Pet Experts April 15 11:34 PM

does my budgie parakeet suppose to have little horn like hairs grow on its head?

 

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April 16 12:56 AM (1 hour and 21 minutes and 8 seconds later)
         

There won't be any hairs at all on your Budgie. Birds only grow feathers, of various thicknesses but not hair. Are the little horns you describe very short, maybe sticking straight up and do they feel prickly?



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