My 2-month-old bird is losing feathers, is this normal or illness?

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Naomi is fully 8 weeks now, but she's losing her feathers alot. She isn't plucking her feathers they're just falling out themselves. She tries to fly by jumping and flapping her wings but whenver she flaps her wings, her feathers come out. She has lost all of her tail feathers and almost every feather from her wings. This began 5 days ago and she already has lost like 15-20 feathers. She loses approx 4 feathers everyday. Why is this happening? Is this a disease or just a phase? Pet's info: Bird | Unknown - Bird | Female | unspayed | 2 months and 2 days old

Jessica Desrosiers · Accepted Answer

If Naomi is showing signs of illness, poor growth, not growing in adult feathers while losing others, etc it is best to seek veterinary care in person for an exam. They can help determine if there is a cause such as illness or malnutrition preventing her normal growth. It is normal for baby birds to lose their down feathers as they grow in adult ones, you can check this by looking for pinfeathers (small pointy objects sticking out the skin) that indicate new feathers are being formed and growing in. This is not an instant process and there may be patches of baldness where the old feathers fall out and new grow in during this stage.

My 2-month-old bird is losing feathers, is this normal or illness?

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