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First you have to find out WHY he is plucking...there are possible medical explanations you may want to rule out but often these things are behavioural.
Often changing the environment can help...does your little fellow have a lot of toys to keep him occupied? Room to move about, fly, spread his wings in the cage..( in other words, a large cage for his home), does he have good food and a varied diet>? Does he have mental and emotional stimulation? Is the cage placed in a good spot...has something changed that could have brought on this behaviour? Sometimes, a bad wing clip can cause it too...
There are products out there that some have had success with....I know that some people swear by Pluck No More but it is expensive and, from what I understand, has about a 50/50 success rate. More reasonable and again some have had success is AVICALM....you can get it through AVITECH products...both are meant to help pluckers.
In a worse case scenario, sometimes the bird may need a collar but lovies are tough ones to collar.....I HAD to finally do that with my self-mutilator/plucker and it was a battle but I did make a collar that worked for her and she is amazing now. Her issue was an injury though that wasn't healing and she kept hurting herself...before I knew what was going on I had tried the homeopathic stuff and, of course, because it wasn't really an emotional/psychological issue, they didn't do any good.
So...that being said...try the environmental changes first...see if that helps. Give her lots of things to play with...change around the cage...that can often make a big difference.
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