[GeneG]

I have a 3 year old male GCC whom I got when he was a few months old. Everything was going fine until about a month ago he started pulling out (or rather nipping off) his feathers on the chest, legs, and back. He's never done this before but now this seems to be his favorite activity, and you can only distract him from it with a treat or a water spray. He is out of his cage pretty much the entire time we are at home, has toys all over the place and gets a lot of attention from us. We diversified his diet, brought in different toys, tried to spend even more time with him, but nothing seems to work. Our vet says there could be a hundred different reasons for why he's doing it (gee thanks for the great insight!) and I'm about to start tearing my own feathers out. Has anyone had to deal with this? What else can I try?