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Looks like a baby to me , and still in the range of hand feeding.
He is barbering his chest, belly and between legs himself. The back feathers look normal for a baby and I don't see stress bars , or discoloration, or evidence of rough play on those .
As for the open band , I don't know why. Could be had a health issues as chick and they delayed, minor stuff happens.
To me looks bright and active, but perhaps a little under weight. If his clutch mates are weaned , his delay if is even a delay can be due to a minor health issue. The regurge could be like a yeast crop infection which is relatively common in hand raised , or a minor bacteria imbalance in crop . If I was going to guess, I think a crop yeast infection could explain, slightly lower weight , feather destruction behavior and regurge. In my adult birds , ( non behavioral ) regurge has always been a yeast infection . In babies regurge can also be yeast imbalance.
Babies can play around and practice regurge as well .
Being still hand fed and in a pet store situation is stressful to babies and individuals handle that stress differently, so could also be an explanation for barbering,( tho aweful young to have started this) and (if ) lower weight .
My first parrot, was A GCC that was darn right tatty , head bald but with pin feathers coming back , pretty much all her feathers looked aweful. They were very upfront with me about this , has aspirated as chick during hand feeding, and put back with parents to raise and mom plucked her head bald and rough on the rest of her feathers. They showed me her complete medical file , treatment, and being cleared by vet afterwards and they would have the vet check her before I brought her home and I could be there for that ( they had routine vet checks while at pet store until sold .) I was told she might or might not have sinus issues for life as some scaring in one nostril. Je feathers all cane back glorious ( but she has never been barbering) and she lived a happy healthy life for 17 years , tho she did have occasional sinus infections for life that were easily treated she wasn't sickly or anything like that , maybe six infections in 17 years a little flush and antibiotic all good . The sweetest best girl !!!
Nothing in yours tells me run for the hills , but I would investigate, definitely getting a thorough a visn vet exam.
He is barbering his chest, belly and between legs himself. The back feathers look normal for a baby and I don't see stress bars , or discoloration, or evidence of rough play on those .
As for the open band , I don't know why. Could be had a health issues as chick and they delayed, minor stuff happens.
To me looks bright and active, but perhaps a little under weight. If his clutch mates are weaned , his delay if is even a delay can be due to a minor health issue. The regurge could be like a yeast crop infection which is relatively common in hand raised , or a minor bacteria imbalance in crop . If I was going to guess, I think a crop yeast infection could explain, slightly lower weight , feather destruction behavior and regurge. In my adult birds , ( non behavioral ) regurge has always been a yeast infection . In babies regurge can also be yeast imbalance.
Babies can play around and practice regurge as well .
Being still hand fed and in a pet store situation is stressful to babies and individuals handle that stress differently, so could also be an explanation for barbering,( tho aweful young to have started this) and (if ) lower weight .
My first parrot, was A GCC that was darn right tatty , head bald but with pin feathers coming back , pretty much all her feathers looked aweful. They were very upfront with me about this , has aspirated as chick during hand feeding, and put back with parents to raise and mom plucked her head bald and rough on the rest of her feathers. They showed me her complete medical file , treatment, and being cleared by vet afterwards and they would have the vet check her before I brought her home and I could be there for that ( they had routine vet checks while at pet store until sold .) I was told she might or might not have sinus issues for life as some scaring in one nostril. Je feathers all cane back glorious ( but she has never been barbering) and she lived a happy healthy life for 17 years , tho she did have occasional sinus infections for life that were easily treated she wasn't sickly or anything like that , maybe six infections in 17 years a little flush and antibiotic all good . The sweetest best girl !!!
Nothing in yours tells me run for the hills , but I would investigate, definitely getting a thorough a visn vet exam.