My parrot is having feather problems

I have a 1 year old Alexandrine parrot and we had clipped his wings when he was 6 or 7 months old and they haven't grow back yet.
He is ripping his red feathers and also the ones around his stomach.
The shaft of the feathers are growing multiple feathers at a time and he breaks them one after the other including his tail.
He has been without tail and flight feathers for half a year.
His diets includes seeds, fruits,grains, meat etc.
He eats well and is a bit picky i cannot understand his problems.
He gets so irritated and preens himself very aggressively.
Pls help i have added some pictures
Thank u







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Can someone pls suggest something.

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Please see the very recent Thread in the General Health Care Forum, titled: A very strange problem with our buddy.

It addresses some of the problem and other issue you maybe experiencing.

Your Parrot 'appears' to be 'Barbering' its tail feathers.

The problem with the Primary Wing Feathers that they had been 'all' cut off is that they are replaced in a very specific pattern, which repeats over a year or as long as multi years. Who every cut them, cut too many and likely cut them just after they had been set in place.

Please read that above Thread and come back with any specific questions.

Thank u so much

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Ok as in that forum i do not have any vets around.
So what should i do.
If u could just suggest some home remedies.
That would be super helpful
Thank u very much.
And one more thing.
I did ask a vet about him but he said it was some sort of skin parasite.
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Is that true sir.


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Just another possibility... are you feeding him only what's shown, which looks like seeds?
Lots of times, people don't know that seeds are a very inadequate diet and can cause countless behavioral and physical problems. Most people feed a good pelleted diet plus fresh fruits and veggies and grains every day.

No we feed him fruits and veggies along with seeds

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I would like to send you to another Thread /Post that will be of additional help for you. Please see an older, but very important Thread in the General Health Care Forum, titled: First Aid Kit. This Thread is located near the top of the Forum and is located in the area that is highlighted in Light Blue.

You will find a detailed list of support care products that will provide you the products that will help care for your Parrot. Please understand that finding a Vet that will care for the special medical needs of your Parrot will be important.

Regarding your question:" I did ask a vet about him but he said it was some sort of skin parasite. "

Skin Parasites is a possible cause and requires someone with knowledge to hold and examine your Parrot properly to find and determine if Parasites are found and what type of medication is needed to eliminate them.

Can u pls suggest and explain what r pellets like.

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His diet includes seeds, fruits and vegetables, and "meat"? What "meat" do you feed him? Meat should not be a part of his diet except maybe a treat very rarely, and his main staple food should not be seeds at all, but rather a high quality pellet diet with a very small amount of seed added.

That being said, if I'm being honest, your bird looks very, very unhealthy, and I'm going to try to be firm on this without being harsh...There are no "home remedies" that are going to help him until you know what is wrong with him. You can't treat what you don't know is wrong, and I would immediately, like ASAP find the closest certified avian vet to you and make an appointment for him. Take a fresh stool sample, and tell the avian vet everything you've told us. He needs blood work, a fecal smear, and to be tested for congenital diseases such as PBFD. I'm sorry but just by looking at him I'm guessing he's got some fairly serious health issues, I hope I'm wrong but I really don't think so, just from my own experiences.

He may be suffering greatly, he may be in physical pain and feel very sick, and this is what is causing him to pluck/barber. When birds get aggressive like he is about plucking and mutilating themselves, especially at such a young age, there's a reason. Birds instinctively hide all illnesses and pain as long as they can because in the wild they are prey, not predators. If they show that they are sick or injured they become targets for predators, and they often get left behind by their flocks. Captive birds still possess these instincts, and unfortunately, as many people that come to this forum find out much too late, by the time their bird starts acting like he's sick or in pain, he's been sick or injured for many months and they had no idea. So it's often too late for an avian vet to help them. They come on here asking for "home remedies" when there are none, and then they refuse to take their bird to a qualified avian vet, and the bird dies. I don't want to see that happen to you, and I don't want your bird to suffer any longer.

Plucking, barbering, and self mutilating in birds is a symptom of something very, very wrong with them, it's not the actual issue. The only way you'll find out what is causing your bird's behavior is if you get him to a certified avian vet immediately. I don't care if you have to drive 8 hours one way to get to a certified avian vet, this is what you need to do. I doubt there isn't one closer to you than that, if you tell us what city/town and state you live in we can find the closest avian vet to you very quickly. Often people don't think there is an avian vet anywhere near them and then we find them one immediately. I'm sorry, but if you just sit on this and keep trying to find cheap home remedies to get him to stop mutilating himself it's not only going to be a waste of time because most likely nothing is going to stop him but proper medical treatment, but the longer you fail to get him to an avian vet the less time you're going to have to treat him.

He could have something very easy and inexpensive to treat, like a yeast infection or feather parasites. It could be a bacterial infection that simply needs the correct antibiotic to clear it up. But these very simple medical issues cannot be treated and cured with home remedies, they require a proper diagnosis to determine the correct medication, and then they require that prescription medication. If your child started acting the way your bird is, pulling their hair out, constantly and aggressively scratching at their skin until they bled, would you get on the internet and look for home remedies? I don't think so. I think you would take your child to the pediatrician. And your child can speak to you and at least tell you they are in pain, that they don't feel well, and where they don't feel well.

Your bird can't speak to you, he can't tell you what is hurting him or what kind of sickness he feels. His aggressive self mutilating is the only way he can express to you that something is terribly wrong with him. He needs you to be a responsible pet owner and get him to a certified avian vet immediately, he's suffering. I don't want him or you to end up like many people that come to this forum for advice end up, simply because they refuse to listen us, the very experienced bird people that see birds needlessly die all the time because their owners won't get them proper care, usually for something very simple. And I'd hate to see his problems compound by the mutilated areas on his body also becoming infected with new infections on top of the cause of the mutilation itself. So there are multiple reasons he needs to go to the avian vet ASAP. Please tell us what town/state you live in and we will find the closest qualified avian vet to you.

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Ok i live in india, madhya pradesh, bhopal.

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The most highly recommended one for birds is the vet at this clinic, though a simple search revealed at least 6 in Madhya Pradesh

Dr. Brajesh Gupta


D-230, Indra Vihar Colony,Sector C,Airport Road, Landmark:Near Bhopal Girls School Panchwati

Please take your bird asap

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Can you confirm that multiple feathers are growing from one follicle? Like multiple ones poking out of one sheath? This is a disease that requires veterinary treatment. It's called polyfolliculosis and can have multiple causes such as fungal infections, chlamydia, giardiasis...there isn't a cure but treatment can help. Here's a link with a photo and some things you might Google.

https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/polyfolliculosis-in-birds

Oh thank you all so much. I wish i could thank u all in some way.

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No no I'm sorry for wrong info he doesn't have multiple feathers.
Sorry for the inconvenience u had.
Thank u

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And also i forgot to mention that today is his birthday.
He is one year old today.
Happy birthday tuk tuk

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And i read somewhere that when they start losing their soft downy weathers(the white ones) that is the time they r about to start their molt.
Is that true cause tuk tuk loses them a lot.
And also can any body tell me approx when they have their molt which season ?? Now it is end of winter in india. I.e the summer is about to start.
So if they molt in the summer that would be great news. He would get his new feathers. Right??

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Sorry not in india in the state i live it is end of winter

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I believe they molt anywhere from late winter to early summer