Hey, so I have a quaker who has been plucking. I caught her in my backyard after one day she came flying and landed on me.
She was tame and I assumed that she got escaped. I put flyers and no one answered so I decided to keep her. She is very fun and loves to hang out with us. But even when I found she had been plucking her feathers. At first I thought might have been from the trauma of being out there and being hungry and thirsty. But it never went away. I've had her for a year now and its starting to get worse. I've tried many different things like giving her a daily bath or spending more time with her but it seems to make it worse. Now she has been bleeding from her chest as she is plucking blood feathers and I'm worried it might escalate to mutilation. I am thinking of putting pepper on her feathers to make her stop but I'm worried it might either make it worse or hurt the bird. So I'm wondering if any of you know how to deal with this problem. BTW there are no veterinarians around me and the closest one charges me almost 100 just for walking in and my parents don't like that. Please if you can help me. Thank you in advance and I look forward to seeing the posts.
She was tame and I assumed that she got escaped. I put flyers and no one answered so I decided to keep her. She is very fun and loves to hang out with us. But even when I found she had been plucking her feathers. At first I thought might have been from the trauma of being out there and being hungry and thirsty. But it never went away. I've had her for a year now and its starting to get worse. I've tried many different things like giving her a daily bath or spending more time with her but it seems to make it worse. Now she has been bleeding from her chest as she is plucking blood feathers and I'm worried it might escalate to mutilation. I am thinking of putting pepper on her feathers to make her stop but I'm worried it might either make it worse or hurt the bird. So I'm wondering if any of you know how to deal with this problem. BTW there are no veterinarians around me and the closest one charges me almost 100 just for walking in and my parents don't like that. Please if you can help me. Thank you in advance and I look forward to seeing the posts.
