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My birdie. Brad! for some reason has a rather small tail! he takes his long feathers out and his lil tail always looks wet and mess as if someone has tried to bit his lil tail off but only took the long feathers out.... but the rest of the feathers are there.... problem or not

no problem as long as he is not pulling them out himself.he might be placing his tailin water at some point in moving around the cage.I love your avatar.

thank you.... but yeah he does pull them out.. like the longest and biggest feather he'll pull just that one out so i guess he'll have a short tail

Oh oh feather plucking is not a good sign, Get him a toy for preening sometimes they even sell peacock feather or anything he can yank but his own tush feathers. i will see if I can find a link on feather plucking...
http://www.lisashea.com/petinfo/wingclaw/wing/preen.html

Just at the bottom it says talk to a vet I wish i knew more. Sorry that is all i could find.

You have three birds, right?
If Brad is the odd man out, then he is probably lonely. There are lots of preening-types toys you could try to distract him with, and maybe you can give him extra TLC. You definitely want to try to stop this habit before it gets too thoroughly ingrained, and before he starts pulling out feathers all over himself.

It might also be that he is just at that age that he is molting. My Prettygirl (RIP) lost most of her tail feathers at the same time and as she was overweight anyway was she one funny looking pudgie budgie but within a month or so they all grew back. Now Sweetgirl is losing some of her long tail feathers. But try toys.

he already molted tho!! and no i have 2 boys so he's not the only boy

Do some research on feather plucking maybe the toys and some xtra tlc will stop it before it turns into a habit and he rips out all his feathers.