Hi, I visited a Goffin's Cockatoo that is being rehomed. It has alot less powder then I imagined. If you rub it some powder comes off on your clothes, but not nearly as much as with my African Grey.
I checked the powder down feathers (on the flanks) and if you rib those there is alot of powder. The beak and nails and all feathers growing in are normal (blodd supply is normal color, feather is not deformed).
Do Goffin's make less powder? Could this bird have less powder because it pluckes its feathers and takes out the powder down feathers so doesn;t produce as much? (I could see alot of holes on the flanks under the contour feathers).
Or it is most likely PBFD? Or are there other reasons for less powder (like the plucking)?
(just as security, I always wear clothes that I can throw out when I go to visit birds, and I go to my mom's to change and take a very long, very hot shower).