Need urgent advice

thank you!
yes, that's what i read, that they pluck the chest first...I will hope he is just uncomfortable and that's the reason...Also he was not borred at all when i saw him chewing that last feather, we all were in the kitchen, talking to him, he was on his tree...so nothing stressful or upsetting...
i've ordered travel cage as soon as it arrives i'll take him to the vet anyways...And while i wait for the cage i'll look for the avian vet, cause i don't think there are any in my area...

An Avian Vet is always preferred, but if none are available a vet who is a certified ZOO vet ("CertZooMed" means they've done extra work with exotics) is more often than not experienced with 'exotics and avian' and would be better than your standard vet.

I do think you're worrying over nothing at the moment though. Birds preen, feathers fall, sometimes they'll look at you with a huge feather in their mouth "Mummy, look what I just pulled!". It'll just be feathers that needed a little nudge to come out anyway during the moult. :)

Can tell you're a new parront, worryworryworry! If they sneeze, they're dying?! Sometimes it just is what it is, a sneeze, a loose feather, an itch that needed to be scratched, etc. :)

He'll be fine :)
 
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ha ha ha :))))))

well i always had parrots, all my live...but not the big ones...i guess with bigger ones it's always more noticeable
 
I gotta agree with Mayden. I think you are worrying over nothing. It sounds like he is molting.
 
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That's how he looks today... ImageUploadedByTapatalk1367866265.953606.jpg
 
Aww he is looking like a helicopter! It looks like he has a couple loose wing feathers. Sometimes they will stick out when they are coming loose and he may decide to remove them himself if they bother at all.

Although I haven't had the experience of feathers to both sides poking out, I still think it's loose feathers due to a normal molt and not plucking. When birds molt they generally loose feathers evenly on both sides of the body and that's what it looks like.
 
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Oh, thank you! sorry i just noticed your answer!

Our little guy thinks he can fly....So he bravely flies (jumps) off the cage, or his play-tree, or from my hand...and onto the ground he goes :(( He looks like those birds from angry birds ( too bad they don't have names, i would definitely name him after one of them...)

Oh, and yesterday he was sitting on his tree while we were having dinner...he looked at us for a little bit...and then he jumped from the tree to the table - right into the bowl of soup, splashing everybody at the table. It was SO funny (soup was not hot)
 
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If he can't fly please be sure that wherever he is falling to the floor the ground is padded to keep him from hitting his keel bone--or any of them really. Ideally he will get those wing feathers in and learn to fly. If you still decide to clip them, it should be a light enough clip that he can still glide to the floor to avoid crashing down and hurting himself.
 
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If he can't fly please be sure that wherever he is falling to the floor the ground is padded to keep him from hitting his keel bone--or any of them really. Ideally he will get those wing feathers in and learn to fly. If you still decide to clip them, it should be a light enough clip that he can still glide to the floor to avoid crashing down and hurting himself.

what would be the best padding? yes, i am very worried he is going to break something :( ...

I am not sure if i'll clip him, but if i do it will be very light...
 
If you have carpeting that would be enough, but if you have tile or wood floors I owuld put down rugs, blankets or towels. Do what you have to do for now to keep him safe. Once his wings grow in better hopefully he will learn to use those wings.
 
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If you have carpeting that would be enough, but if you have tile or wood floors I owuld put down rugs, blankets or towels. Do what you have to do for now to keep him safe. Once his wings grow in better hopefully he will learn to use those wings.

hardwood here :( will do something for sure...
i guess he knew how to fly, otherwise he would not try, right?
 

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