kaydotklaxon
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- Apr 2, 2016
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Hey, so I'm new to this site. I have a male quaker parrot, we don't know how old he is, but we know he's a baby. He was found in the south valley of New Mexico about a year ago by a friend of my brother's who posted about him on Instagram. We agreed to take him and when we got there, we discovered him in a cage covered in ants that had bitten him. We got him home, got him cleaned up and fed, but now he has a severe plucking issue. He is terrified of ants and has an "ant pose" where we think he hallucinates ants.
The feathers around his chest - what's supposed to be his bib - are missing and scraggly. We give him baths very frequently but his feathers have not grown back in so we think he's still plucking.
We also don't spend as much time with him as we should, he's out with us every weekend but we feel like he needs us to spend more time with him.
We don't know if he's plucking because of the ant trauma or if it's because he's lonely.
Is there any way to help him grow his feathers back in? Or to stop him from plucking with both situations?
Thank you so much!
The feathers around his chest - what's supposed to be his bib - are missing and scraggly. We give him baths very frequently but his feathers have not grown back in so we think he's still plucking.
We also don't spend as much time with him as we should, he's out with us every weekend but we feel like he needs us to spend more time with him.
We don't know if he's plucking because of the ant trauma or if it's because he's lonely.
Is there any way to help him grow his feathers back in? Or to stop him from plucking with both situations?
Thank you so much!