Darci
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I have a five year old grey, I bought her in August. I went away for a few days and I had a friend care for her while I was gone. She appears to be just dropping feathers. She has one wing feather that she's always over preened but doesn't seem to be plucking from what I can see, and I have been watching. I'd say she lost 6 or so feathers in four days, two big ones last night (a small wing and a red tail feather) and another wing one today. They seem to be the same sizes and shapes, as if they are falling out in pairs. I didn't have her covered while I was gone, could this trigger a molt? A little more sunshine?
She has (and has always had) lots of toys as well as bags and boxes to forage from and my friend said she went through her foraging supplies. She doesn't appear to be using the toys though, and hasn't been using them as much lately though she has her spurts. But I figured maybe this is the kind of things where things ebb and flow, so I just started to try and make them in different patterns to recapture her attention.
She has (and has always had) lots of toys as well as bags and boxes to forage from and my friend said she went through her foraging supplies. She doesn't appear to be using the toys though, and hasn't been using them as much lately though she has her spurts. But I figured maybe this is the kind of things where things ebb and flow, so I just started to try and make them in different patterns to recapture her attention.