Will her tailfeathers EVER grow out ?

[RigorMortisKitten]

So the story goes like this:
I got this female society finch from a breeder a few months ago. I didn't get to see the bird i was going to buy before meeting up with her, she only gave me a little cardboard box with the two society finches inside. I thought everything was fine, but when i came home i noticed that the female is missing her tailfeathers :/ i was kind of ... shocked, because it looked really bad. I texted the breeder to ask about this - and she said that my society hen was only moulting :S ... i dont really believe this... moulting doesn't look like this ?

My theory is that she has been plucked by other birds ... what do you think ? No one is plucking her now, because she only lives with a male society finch and he treats her well. (he isn't plucking her, and she isnt plucking herself either - this is from where she lived before)

I try to give her the best food i can (seeds, pellets, eggfood, veggies, grit, cuttlebones) and i have also bought vitamins for the birds.

My question is - will her tail ever grow out ? Because now it looks like sh*t (excuse the honesty, but it looks really bad...) she only has a few stumps sticking up where the tailfeathers should be and some of her skin is visible.
Can i do anything more for her besides giving her the right foods ? Is there something else i can add ?

Woahh, sorry for the long post

[G8love4finches]

Feeding all the foods you mentioned will give her what she needs to grow back her tail....It will take a little time, but she should have her tail back in no time!....She was probably plucked during transport?

[Ursula]

How old is she?
My oldest budgie lost her fail feathers when she was hatching chicks and they never grew back. She has no tail feathers now for almost 2 years but is healthy otherwise. She just looks funny...
I wouldn't worry about it if she's healthy and her feathers look good on her body. Beauty isn't everything.

[RigorMortisKitten]

Feeding all the foods you mentioned will give her what she needs to grow back her tail....It will take a little time, but she should have her tail back in no time!....She was probably plucked during transport?

Thats good to hear! I think she was plucked where she lived before - im pretty sure she lived in an aviary with other society finches and zebras

[RigorMortisKitten]

How old is she?
My oldest budgie lost her fail feathers when she was hatching chicks and they never grew back. She has no tail feathers now for almost 2 years but is healthy otherwise. She just looks funny...
I wouldn't worry about it if she's healthy and her feathers look good on her body. Beauty isn't everything.

Yeahh i agree with you, i like her the way she is but i feel bad about that other birds plucked her before, i wish she was never plucked in the first place!

[finchmix22]

How old is the hen? All my juveniles and my hens lose tail feathers during their molts. I thought they were plucking each other, but I realized the timing had to due with the breeding and growth cycles. Stress and temperature changes can also trigger molting. I was skeptical at first because I didn't see pin feathers anywhere else, but this has happened twice over the last year and a half. The feathers grow back fine.

[BigBear0007]

Don't worry about it!
My hen had a very short bob tail when I got her?
It's growing back fine now and almost to full length!

[ac12]

This is what I do for plucked birds that I'm trying to get to regrow their feathers:

- Egg food at least 2x a day
- "Feather Fast," per instructions

[RigorMortisKitten]

My hen is 3 years old

Thank you for the tips ac12!
I gave the birds eggfood often before i started quarantine medications, but while they're having medication i read that all wet food has to be removed. I will start giving eggfood in 2 days when i've ended the ronivet-s treatment.

I will also start giving Moulting vitamins again - i did that before and it seemed that it was helping her

[DanteD716]

As I was trying to catch my escaped society male, he lost some tail feathers. he now has tail feathers on either side but no middle ones, he looks like a pin tail.