KVP Elizabethan Bird Collar, 4"

$16.99 for a 6" piece of plastic, is a CRIME.The seller is predatory to bird owners that are desperate to save their beloved pet.You have to pay attention to the neck of the cone. If the bird chews on the neck hole of the cone, it will make a sharp, saw-tooth like surface and when they spin it, it can nearly cut their head off. It resulted in one of the most gruesome bird injuries I have ever seen, on a living bird. So below, I am going to offer advice and explain what I did to fix this situation.Buy some 0-6months baby socks. Pinch the toe section of the sock and cut. It will be a very rough circle. You want it to be a smaller hole, so that the sock fits snug on both the upper body & neck/head area of the bird. I also took some very, very tough canvas glued it to the cone, thru the neck area, to the other side of the cone. I also used a "Thread Zap II" in order to plastic weld the material to the cone.The cone itself had to be trimmed for our Quaker Parrot. We trimmed it to the size of a cd/dvd/bluray. I found that I could buy a 12" x 12" piece of bullet resistant lexan and a bunch of snap fasteners, for FAR cheaper than this cone and it's a much better, tougher and more complete solution.If you are not sure about that yet, then I will include a picture of what we did to make this cone a lot tougher.Good luck.

So after reading reviews and going thru my own experience, in a nut shell, its a good collar. Tip: start out with 2. Took my indian ringneck to animal ER and even the vet doctor said he liked this collar better because of the clips. He had injured his foot and was healing but when he took a 20 min bath and loosened up his dry scab, he made matters worse. He kept picking at his dry scab and lost a lot of blood.Anyway, ordered this collar and he hated and I couldn't stomach the screaming and his struggling. Took him to the vet doctor and he took the collar and Kiwi, and sent me away for the rest of the day. Came back and he was quiet as a kitten was getting accustomed to it. Vet warned me that he was going to chew and bite pieces off sooo I came up with my own solution. I cut off a piece a t-shirt hem, sewed over the foam (or remains of it to add some cushion) and placed it on him again. No problems or bleeding at all around his neck. Its a mini project for him that lasts about 5 or 6 days before he's destoryed the top part of the shirt (the remaining shirt lays on the bottom on top of his neck feathers) and then I switch it out to a collar that I've sewn over a brand new piece of t-shirt hem onto. So I rotate. I may just order 2 more anyway, to have as back up because he's healing slowing but none the less healing. So far, this has worked for me. I also give him Avitech AviFlax Gold over his food (I have to find a replacement, out of business recently.) In the past, he started feather picking and he stopped. Also, he likes taking 20 min baths under the kitchen faucet ever 2 to 4 days on his own because he gets itchy and I noticed that the vitmain and baths helped him stop feather picking. But until his foot heals, no baths for now.

Amazon does a huge misservice when they group multiple sized items together of the same product in reviews and questions that are not relevent. My review is only of the 2.75-3.5, 6inch collar. I have solomon island eclectus and this size fits them excellent around the neck, but the next size up is made out of plastic far thick and heavy for my birds. if they made an 8 inch in the same weight it would be perfect. but you know how buying specific things for birds can be.... anyway they're decent. The bird will probably rip off all the foam coating around the neckline for a while- and you'll have to buy multiple collars to replace them so they don't slit their throat on the sharp plastic that's left. Their necks will suffer and probably result in permanent deformation of the neck vertibrae because of the weight carried on the neck. However, it will help prevent them from plucking the feathers they can no longer reach. The 6 inch diameter will only prevent them from plucking or destroying the feathers they can reach. If they can reach the primary wing feathers or tail feathers they will destroy them, and you'll have to get a heavier diameter collar that is too heavy for their body. It's not necessarily amazon's failing - it's a massive product design flaw on the part of the manufacturers. But if you have a plucker what's worse? a bald chicken or a bird that can't hold it's head up because of the weight wrapped around it? smh....birds. Crazy critters!

This worked! Required two people to apply it, using a towel to wrap the bird gently. I kept it on for a couple months to stop my Africa Grey from feather picking. He had almost no feathers when I started. Now he is almost fully feathered again. I did a test run after a month, and he resumed picking, so I put it back on for about another month. Now he is just preening normally as the remaining feathers regrow. Get a few of these in the beginning because sometimes the bird will manage to chew the edges, until they become accustomed. Provide plenty of chew toys during recovery and after. Find ways to lower the bird's stress level in the home. I have started to make my own bird chew toys from paper egg crates, paper drink crates, cardboard boxes and paper towel rolls. My birds are having a ball shredding them and now they are much too busy to be feather picking anymore.

Works well but will wear feathers off over time and may cause sores. I tried this in multiple sizes but my african grey was always able to get her lower beak under the collar and chew it up. I went through about 6 of these before switching too an acrylic collar from veterinary specialty products. It was much more comfortable for my bird and she could not destroy it.

Same exact one my vet sells me for my sun conure who picks feathers from time to time. I think the vet charged me around $20 for just one of these collars. Note : Collars make feeding on seeds and such difficult for any bird who uses their foot to hold the food. I bought 2 heavy ceramic crocks, fill them to the top and place them at bottom of the cage so the bird can stand on the rim to drink & eat while looking straight down into the crock thus elievating the need to use her foot to bring food to her mouth.