Hello All. I wanted to check in with the community here on some advice for feather plucking. I inherited my boy a little over a year ago when he was one year old. His original owner was really involved with him until he was about 6 months old when she was diagnosed with cancer and died a few months later. In this short amount of time the grey managed to pluck a majority of his feathers. When I first got him it didn't take long for him to be all over me. Since then his feathers have started to come back and have gotten to the point where he no longer looks like he should be in a horror movie. I work from home and he spends almost the entirety of his 10 hours a day out of his cage with me. However, if I put the dude on his perch long enough to go to the bathroom he will pluck one of his tail feathers. Lets out a giant painful squawking noise and everything. So obviously, he has horrible separation anxiety.

He will go into his cage in the late afternoon and will eat and get covered for plenty of sleep and is fine until he wakes up in the morning.

Vet says medically everything is fine with him, and some birds that pluck from an early age will never completely stop.

I've spent thousands on different perches, and toys. I've also read about them being in puberty during this time so, I can only imagine how confusing things are for him.

Anywho, the point of this post is to ask if anyone out there has been through these same issues? Hopefully I'm not being too naive to think that after he gets a little older he will stop. If so, suggestions are greatly appreciated!