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How To Make Ginger Stop Plucking Her Feathers?

My mom found a dove with a broken wing. The dove's name is Ginger,and she would not stop plucking her feathers. How can I make her stop plucking her feathers?

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    In birds this is a sign of stress or of severe irritation.  Does she have access to a dust bath?  If she has mites you can get powder to treat them.
    If it is stress, you have a bigger problem. Assuming her wing has healed the sooner you let her go the better.
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    Harka  

    answered 2 years ago

         
         

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