A healthy bird has faultless plumage that just might be a little scrubby due to a normal
moult. However, there are some plumage defects and diseases which causes you should now
in order to handle upcoming problems immediately. You have good chances to heal the
defect if it is caused due to nutrition problems. If the bird however hurts itself by
picking its feathers it usually is a mental problem. These problems can hardly be solved.
In this chapter you can read about the topic of plumage defects/deseases and how to
react in case your bird suffers from it. Please keep one thing in mind: Never take
lightly a continuous plumage defect! Often there are deeper matters behind that have
to be handled!
German version of this text: Gaby Schulemann-Maier,
translation of this chapter: Isolde Aufschläger 
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. Of course you will meet me there, too. My nickname is "Feenseeschwalbe".
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