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Why are my parakeet's wing feathers missing and beak feathers brown?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Bird | Parakeet | Male

I have 2 parakeets and one seems to have missing feathers on its wings and feathers around it’s beak are a little Brown.

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Answered By Todd Cecil

Veterinarian

Published on February 10th, 2019

Thanks for reaching out about Sky. Feather loss can be due to poor diet, stress, over-preening, external parasites, skin infections, metabolic disease, viral disease and more. Research and correct the diet birds do poorly on an all seed diet. A veterinarian is probably needed to exam and recommend diagnostics/ treatments. Good luck.

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