 So what's happening, Brando is? You are a little bit... Hey, McCohen here. Welcome to my channel, Meta Red Light. So I thought I would give you an update on what's happening today. Brando, I'm taking her to the vet. She has a mysterious feather loss on her head, which has me a little bit alarmed because there's not even like coils there indicating that she has some feathers growing back. So, and it's gotten a little bit worse. So today we're on our way to the vet. See that feather loss? You can tell right here because yeah, that's her. All right. So while we wait for the vet, there's a few things that I think it could be, but I'm not a vet. That's why you always want to bring your bird to the vet. So first of all, when I got Brando, she was tested for polyoma, beacon feather disease, among other things. So, and she was negative. When you bring a bird home, especially with other birds, you want to really test the birds for any kind of transferable diseases. And that's why it's really important too that I find out what's going on because I want to make sure she can't be transferring anything to the birds. I know that there are some things that birds can have that they can come out with a negative test and then under certain conditions, kind of like it's laying dormant in their system. So another reason I'm worried. But here are some things, keep in mind, I'm not a vet that I think maybe it could possibly be. Just possibilities. One, her nails are too long. She's scratching her head. A lot of times when birds have feather loss on their head, they're just kind of like scratching it too much. Obviously, I clip her nails, they get trimmed, but just, you know, you never know what's a possibility. Maybe she is kind of like shaving her head by like hanging out under things. She likes to hang out under the pillows and the couch. As a lot of you that watch my Instagram know. Perhaps she has a vitamin deficiency. That's another possibility for whatever reason. If so, we'd have to find out why. But yeah, this feather loss is getting a little bit worse. I just want to make sure we know exactly what's going on. So let me show you Brando again while we wait. Brando is a very dramatic bird. Is she doing glitter? She literally just chewed this classic. What's up Brando? I'm trying to stay calm under pressure and not react until I know something official. But turns out that Dr. Molnar is going to retest Brando for vegan feather disease. I said it's very common in the species. That would be absolutely heartbreaking. So like I said, the first thing I did when I got Brando was test her. But I learned something new today from Dr. Molnar and it goes like this. She was tested via her toenail, which means you clip a toenail and you take that blood sample and you put it on a paper and it gets sent into the genetics testing lab. What Dr. Molnar told me is that when you do these tests, actually the best way is to take blood from the jugular because any blood from a toenail could be contaminated, could be a false negative, other things and you need a real clean, clear blood sample. So I'm going to be on edge for the next few days until I find out about Brando and I will be devastated honestly if this is something that she has. But together we'll learn how to deal with it and what we could do. Obviously, you know, Blues her boyfriend because obviously Blue and Brando hang out together and he said, you know, the thing is that since they've been together this whole time, like I could potentially just let them hang out together and a few more days won't make a difference. I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm going to separate Brando, put her in my room and have her stay in there, but both of them are going to lose their minds. So we're going to see what we're going to do. This is feel for anyone that had to go through this. Look at that, guys. I just want to sit here and cry right now. My little Brando, why is it that we have to find out that he's got something now? There's no good. You're going to be okay. There's nothing going on for you. I don't believe she's got it. I don't believe it. I think she does that to herself. She also. She's getting worse. That's what I'm saying. Do you think that it's okay for her to be next to the blue? Well, blue has to be separated from everybody too, because he's the one that's interacted with her. You ready for some more? No. Are you sure? Yeah, look at that. We're going to get Brando past this. Is it a virus? It's a viral thing, like so that's feathered loss from within. If anyone's going to figure it out, we're going to figure it out, right, Brando? I read a story about a bird that had PBFD and then the vet said, you know, so euthanasia is the option, because like, you know, it's not going to have a good life. And so then they said no, since the bird's like cheery and still busy and whatever. They brought the bird home and decided to spoil it rotten and gave the bird whatever it wanted, and the bird would go and hide like she does under the couch for like 18 hours, but not under a couch under something else. And they said, well, we're just going to let the bird do that because that's what the bird wants to do. So the bird was under this, I forgot what, for like 18 hours a day and then came out to peek its interest on stuff. They got the bird tested and it was still positive. And then later the bird's feather started growing back in a year. It was tested negative and it's super rare and they don't even know how that could have happened. Maybe that's what they're supposed to do when this happens. Yeah, maybe that's like the process of healing, like just chilling and we get you a little spot of your own. Yeah, maybe you need to make her like a spot in here to just sit in here. Oh yeah, not in here, sorry. So it's morning. They're both in my room. It's tough because obviously I don't want Blue to catch anything if she has anything. But at the same time, he'd be very upset if he was separated. The vet advised that if Blue hasn't gotten anything yet, it's okay to keep them together until further notice. You guys, are you after the cat's foot? I don't let them get you. Okay, I don't let them get you. So they've been happily playing all day. Branda was super happy today. I can tell because she wants to follow me all around. Look at her feathers. A little frayed of it. She had a little balding once before and recovered. What are you doing? You don't want me next to your girl? He's very possessive over her. He will scream if he's not with her. I'm going to test him of course once I get her test back. So what's happening, Brando is? You are a little bit very hospital. Okay guys, I just got a message from the vet. I'm a little scared to listen to it but I'm gonna play for George and see what it says. It's about Brando. It's obviously the test results. The vet left us a message I didn't know if like you want to, I sent it to you. So listen to it? Yeah. You want to sit together? Yeah, that's it. No. Is it bad? I didn't listen to it. Okay. I just want to let you know that Brando was speaking feather disease free and negative on all accounts. So you have a wonderful rest of your day and a great weekend. Thank you very much Bye. She's good. So why does she have that? She's just malting. That confirms she's just malting but it's a really bad malt. So we're good. Yeah, but she's been malting for like months and months. I'm happy to hear that it's all good. Thank God. That was great. Proud bird. Come on Sean. Proud bird. Proud bird Rocky. Yeah. He listens to his mommy better. He loves his daddy more. But he listens to his mommy.