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Behavior Modification Feather Plucking and Self Mutilation
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There are several things that can cause a parrot to exhibat this behavior. The main cause is usually medical in nature. I advise all feather pluckers to have a full medical evaluation to rule out every possible medical cause. Once the parrot is treated in most cases the plucking subsides. Not always, and sometimes other things are needed to help with this problem.
While being treated your vet, depending on the severity of the problem, will probably teach you how to make capes, collars, and other material things to keep the parrot from plucking and give it time to heal while being treated. If nothing is done to stop the plucking during treatment, often time's this will become a habbit and a hard one to break. If your Vet did not re
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