On the 7th of April I collected a grey called Buster.
Buster is 8 Years old and belonged to a lovely lady on our forum who rescued him from a local rescue centre near her and he was in a awful mess with hardly any feathers and not very tame at all he was fed a diet of human foods like pizza and chips, within a few weeks she was able to stroke Buster like a cat and he soon began to feather up and look gorgeous again, It all went down hill when she went away for 2 weeks on holiday and they left Buster with her sister, who it seems Buster fell in love with big time and really bonded with her, once they had returned and Buster went home again the plucking got really bad and he didn’t stop there he mutilated his skin too to the point of it dripping with blood, he was taken to the vets a number of times, wore collars had skin scrapes done and ended up getting a infection under his wings from wearing the collar, so that had to be removed and he carried on, they tried diet changes and he is one stubborn bird he just wouldn’t eat so the vet advised them to carry on with the seed he was on to not let him loose to much weight, he would never come out of his cage when it was left open or let her tickle him at all very much which broke her heart, she even asked her sister to take him as this is what it seemed he wanted but as she worked long hours it wasn’t right or fair to do this so she contacted us after a really bad night when she came down to find he had picked himself so bad that there was blood all over the floor and perches.
When I picked Buster up she was so upset as she loved him so much and had tried so hard but it just couldn’t be her to give him what he needed I took him home got his cage out gave it a good clean to clean off any traces of blood and popped him inside.
It was rather late and as soon as I sat down we was greeted with a ‘NIGHT NIGHT’ in a REALLY deep voice it kind of freaked me out!!
We let him settle for a few days and I changed his seed to Tidymix which he ate with a bit of a strop and we opened his cage to see what would happen as he hadn’t come out for months(his wanting) and wow out he came straight away! 
not only that he stepped straight up onto Rick and my arm … Yay!!!
Here are a few photos of him –
I will be blogging about him and his progress his up’s and downs as they happen.
how lovely to see pics of our lovely boy! i miss him so much and still feel so sad that i couldn’t take him. thank you so much for helping him to get better.