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3/30/12 at 3:13pm

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My 3 yr old male is slowly losing his tail feathers. He started growing in Dec and for the past 4 days I have picked up 10-15 tail feathers. Why is he molting now? There is only 1 peahen in with him. He is very well cared for (they all are spoiled) Im worried about him. I wormed them all with Ivernec begining of month in the water. Could this be why? Please HELP if you have any suggestions as to why....Thanks

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3/30/12 at 5:32pm

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Do you know when he hatched? i noticed with mine that the earler hatch grew and lost it's train earler than the late hatch.

I lost my oldest male a couple months ago and his tail feathers came out by the handfulls , i pulled his entire train out in 5 minutes he started getting his train around oct of last year.

Thats just something i noticed with the ones i have.

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