Featheredsamurai
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Anyone else with a grey feel similar?
Because kenji's feathers are scalloped(meaning very well defined) as well as short and stiff. If one breast feather is missing it's obvious. Because he's molting right now his chest looks haggard even though he's probably only missing 8-10 feathers in various areas.
Because Rosie used to pluck I'm VERY worried about Kenji plucking, I'm guessing that the majority of members have seen those sad plucked greys. They are prone to plucking, so I feel my worries are very valid haha. Everyday when I clean out Kenji's cage I closely examine the molted feathers to make sure they don't look plucked, luckily none look plucked so that's great. Two days in a row he lost one tail feather each day, so now his tail looks thinned out. Also, whenever he looses a large flight feather he chews on the shaft of the feather XD freaked me out at first! LOL
I bet after a few molts this won't even phase me haha, but for now I'll continue I be paranoid as he looks haggard during his molt. I attached a photo of him preening, showing some of the missing feathers. Nothing major, mostly you notice it from lack of a pattern. On his opposite side he's missing two feathers next to one another. So you can actually see the down a little.
Hope he finishes this molt quickly , here's Kenji preening his wing. A. Dry silly pos since he's standing on a slope. Clearly shows how the patterning on his chest is messy because of molted feathers.
Because kenji's feathers are scalloped(meaning very well defined) as well as short and stiff. If one breast feather is missing it's obvious. Because he's molting right now his chest looks haggard even though he's probably only missing 8-10 feathers in various areas.
Because Rosie used to pluck I'm VERY worried about Kenji plucking, I'm guessing that the majority of members have seen those sad plucked greys. They are prone to plucking, so I feel my worries are very valid haha. Everyday when I clean out Kenji's cage I closely examine the molted feathers to make sure they don't look plucked, luckily none look plucked so that's great. Two days in a row he lost one tail feather each day, so now his tail looks thinned out. Also, whenever he looses a large flight feather he chews on the shaft of the feather XD freaked me out at first! LOL
I bet after a few molts this won't even phase me haha, but for now I'll continue I be paranoid as he looks haggard during his molt. I attached a photo of him preening, showing some of the missing feathers. Nothing major, mostly you notice it from lack of a pattern. On his opposite side he's missing two feathers next to one another. So you can actually see the down a little.
Hope he finishes this molt quickly , here's Kenji preening his wing. A. Dry silly pos since he's standing on a slope. Clearly shows how the patterning on his chest is messy because of molted feathers.
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any way just think that the more feathers he loses the more feathers grow back that were even better than the ones before 
