my adopted African Grey (12yo) has started to get aggressive with me and my mother. what happen ?

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hes been growning new feathers, and has been plucking at them ( hes always pucked) but thats the normal part. for some reason when i show up to his cage he starts to attack me, and gets into a hyper defensive position. he attaacked my moms foot, and is pretty normal with my brother and father tho they dont normally talk or pet him.
the only thing i can think of is the fact that i try to give him a spray bath and he hates me now. but this is all of a sudden
any tips on how to make him like me again
 

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I am no expert on CAG’s
Only had mine since 2016.
My CAG does her best to take my fingers off when I feed her.
My best guess is it’s partially cage aggression.
When out of the cage she is willing enough to step up and be friendly.
My Bella is also a rescued plucker. She is much better now but twice a year (during molting as near as I can figure) she plucks feathers.

As far as shoes, never had a problem with Bella but.
My Yellow nape use to do that. I simply don’t let him go on the floor.
 

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Hi there. Think really hard if anything in his surroundings changed. Or anything else, like what you wear, smell like, appearance changes, etc. My amazon sometimes gets weirded out when i get a haircut.
 

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hes been growning new feathers, and has been plucking at them ( hes always pucked) but thats the normal part. for some reason when i show up to his cage he starts to attack me, and gets into a hyper defensive position. he attaacked my moms foot, and is pretty normal with my brother and father tho they dont normally talk or pet him.
the only thing i can think of is the fact that i try to give him a spray bath and he hates me now. but this is all of a sudden
any tips on how to make him like me again
You say your CAG is 12, but for how long have you had him?

I have found that sometimes when adopting birds there can be a “honeymoon “ period where everything is rosy. Then things can change suddenly.

Also some birds are more attracted to humans of a specific gender and viciously reject members of the opposite sex.
 

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