lovebird feather loss during molting

[RubiandPetrie'smom]

Hello,
My name is Becky and I have a 4 year old lovebird named Petrie. Anyways, he has been molting the last few weeks like my other two birds, but he has been losing way more feathers than the other two. At the beginning, he had a thin spot on his chest with very little feathers and I noticed he even plucked a few of the new pin feathers coming in. He is acting fine otherwise, chirpy active a playful. He is eating like a pig and maintaning his weight fine. He has a good diet of Harrisons and zupreem pellets, seed and freshfoods as well as sprouts. he has a large cage with lots of toys and I have started giving him some Avix Booster which helps during times of stress and is made with red palm oil so it is good for the skin and feathers. Well since starting that product 4 weeks ago, the spot on his chest is fine and filling in, and I was just seeing normal molted feathers. Well this Am, I uncovered him, and saw about 30 feathers on the bottom of the cage. They look like normal molted feathers and weren't chewed or mangled, but he has a spot on his lower back underneath his wings where their is just the downy white feathers. I freaked and took him to the vet this morning. She is a certified avian vet although not my normal vet. She examined him and everything seems ok, although she did admit that he does seem scruffy but sometimes birds can get really scruffy during a hard molt. She did reccomend we do a fecal test gram stain and culture as well as test for giardia. If those come back normal she reccomends repeating bloodwork. Well I guess he isn't heading for a trainwreck, but I have to wait til monday for results. I just don't want a bald bird. She seems to think it is just hard molting, as the feathers do seem to fall out just when he shakes himself sometimes, but we want to rule out all possibilities. He is also itchy but I have increased baths and the supplement is helping somewhat.

Here a a few pics of him and the spot I am concerned about.
This is a pic of his front:


Here is one of the area of concern:



And here are some of the feathers:

[shosh]

i DUNNO....looks fine to me! from the non-blurry shots!!
My birds can sometimes lose SO many feathers you really do wonder how they have ANY left on their body.

Frankly, although I don't disagree doing bloodwork and fecals when necessary, I think you might have just spent a lot of money for nothing. I hope I'm right in this case and that he is a healthy little bird!! He's also VERY pretty!!

Let us know..

[RubiandPetrie'smom]

Yeah sorry that some of the shots are blurry, I had to hold his wings apart with one hand and take the shot with the other lol. I know it may just be a really bad molt, but I worry and kinda wanted peice of mind, although that won't really be there until I get the results of the tests. Oh and thanks for the comment, he is pretty bird, it just makes me sad to see him so bedraggled