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Just Hatched
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Help me out please! My husband has come in contact with poison ivy, and I don't know if it's safe for him to have contact with our goffin cockatoo. I read that several birds actually eat the poison ivy berries, but I don't know which species of birds do this. I just don't want to take the chance of my bird getting sick because we were stupid enough not to protect him from his daddy's "rash". 
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Poison Ivy the plant and the sap is harmful to cockatoos. I would keep your husband away from the your Too until he has stopped with the weeping rash of poison ivy. Also contact a vet and see if they have anymore suggestions or information.
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| Only primates GET poison ivy...have an allergic reaction. But any animal can have the oils on their skin, fur or feathers and when touched by a person GIVE poison ivy.
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| OOOOO! I just read LH's post! I had never heard that about Toos. I think you should pay close attention to what she said.
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| Actually, the weeping does not spread the 'poison', it's just serum from the open blisters BUT the sap of the poison-ivy (it's not really an ivy) can remain on the skin (or clothing, dog hair and pretty much any surface it touches) for a long time if it's not washed out properly. So, as long as Daddy has taken a good shower and washed thoroughly with soap the affected area, he can handle the bird and will not 'pass' it on to him. I am not sure whether parrots have an allergic reaction to urushiol (the 'bad' thing in the sap), some wild birds eat the poison-ivy berries without any problem and there is a kind of parrot (Bahama Amazon) that feeds on poisonwood berries as part of their natural diet (poisonwood sap also has urushiol and the same effect on people as poison-ivy) so it is possible that they don't react to it BUT, having said that, I would never expose a bird to anything that might or might not cause such a reaction. My motto is "Better safe than sorry". And, please, tell you husband that I feel for him... I used to get the most awful reactions to poison-ivy, once I almost ended up in the hospital because somebody had told me that Clorox cured poison-ivy and I ended up with huge raw, bleeding wounds all over my legs (I know, I know, what kind of an idiot would put Clorox on open blisters?! In my defense I'll say that it was a very, very long time ago when I was young and still believed everything I was told).
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I was very young and got it everywhere, in my ears, my eyes, and raw open rash all over me..... I was rolling down a hill that was nothing but poison ivy. It was horrible. So I feel for your husband also.
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