My lovebird has plucked all his feathers :-(

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Hi tkirsch,

It's probably the change that he is going through from one owner to the next. Sense he doesn't really know you as yet, his behavior is coming out that way, in which he results to plucking. However, you can stop that if you'd like with the same solution I'm using,"Pluck No More", it has a yacky taste so they leave their feathers alone. You can only get them online, they cost about maybe 20 or 30 bucks but it's worth it.

I got my lovie from a breeder that didn't taimed him and he was with his other flock. I got him at two months of age, he was still on the fomular, but left the fomular about a week after I got him, and started eating seeds instead, which was good for me.

I clipped his wings at first becuase he would not come to me and I needed to feed him, other wise he would fall sick of starvation. So that is when he resulted to plucking his feathers, everywhere you can imagine, all his feather. But with the solution I got, and had it for almost two weeks, well he is no longer plucking and his feathers are growing back supper fast.

Ok, so I have few suggestions for you, as I have had a Timneh African Grey before. Make sure he has lots of toys as he chews through them. Try and keep him out of the cage allot longer then the previous owner. My African I had never stayed in her cage, she was free to go anywhere she wanted to go, but she didn't unless I picked her up. African Greys, as for as I know does not chew on your wood or things like that unless that guy you have is different, but you will have to observe him. You can even buy those big size sleeping quarters and he'll probably use that as his hide out and to sleep when he gets use to it. I did that for minds, and she loveeeeddddd that, however what I did was more human like bed type. You know those cages that has a play stand on the top with the tray, well I turn that entire area where she would sleep. I put a sheet on the tray, and I put another on top of the perch making a small tent like with an entrance. But you might have a different view of how you want to keep him. Give him lots of veggies; cellary, brocoli stuff like that, mines use to love those two items, including rice and eggs, she was spoiled. :-)