wing clipping

Hi! So I have 7 birds and 5 cages. My Indian ringneck is alone, I have two females conures together, a 5 weeks old lovebird, other 2 conures in other cage and a kakariki and a cockatiel together. Every single morning at 6 am my kakariki wakes up and starts yelling like crazy. After he’s been...

when I got my bird, the pet store had him clipped as most do. he was quiet, sad, uninterested in toys, unwilling to try or do anything, ate way less than he does now, chewed and barbered feathers, over preened them, plucked them out mildly (around the wrist area on the wing, near his crop, and...

Kiwi is normally free Flighted but we are moving into a small apartment this week and she is very fast, so I had her wings trimmed slightly. I want her to get use to her surroundings. After the trim she has been holding her left wing straight in the air. Like she is stretching but just holds it...

I went to a pet store I trust and have gotten wing clippings for my smaller birds who have a higher risk of escapingg from some parts of the house. Today when I went in to get my budgies wing trimmed there was a new employee. I instructed him to only trim a few flight feathers and he said he was...

Please I need urgent help im literally panicking Ive had my 2 cockatiels for about a month, they are 8 months old. Today, they flew into a window so I took them to a vet to check for cuncussions. The vet recommended i trim the Feathers, i agreed and left the room which was super bad i feel so...

Howdy everyone! I was reading through some threads the other day and kind of got lost in them for awhile. Now I can't recall where I read this, but saw that folks in the Netherlands are considered to have vastly superior practices with regard to weaning baby birds than, say, Americans and their...

so, i'm getting an Alexadrine soon and will be having it in an outside walk in aviary. The thing is, the Alexandrine will be less than 4 months old, and i don't want to risk it flying out of it for the first few months in case it won't return, and seeing it's invasive it'd be illegal and...

An old and very controversial subject, for sure. I'm aware each situation warrants a different solution, so I'm not strongly advocating strongly for one team or the other. I'm well aware of the dialogue behind either party, however. So Kermit’s wings have grown out and I’m at an uncomfortable...

Hey all, I just put a deposit down on a beautiful baby Amazon for my birthday. I have big plans for her socialization and training but my only concern is that she's been clipped already (at 9 weeks old?!). I feel it is very important to her mental and physical health that she fully retain the...

So I have had my nanday for about a year and half now. I had been taking him to get his wings and nails clipped at the pet shop I had bought him from for the last year and a half, but last time I had taken him to get clipped they gave him back to me with a bloody beak. I noticed this right away...

Hi everyone! My lorikeet has been clipped shortly after he started flying. We did some basic training with him before we clipped him, like flying downwards and flying towards us, but he was still VERY young and not a very good flyer, so we decided to clip him just to make sure he wouldn't fly...

Hey all. I've been debating clipping Teeko's wings the past few months due to his aggression towards my family, and following the advice of a trusted forum member, got the guts up to do it today. As soon as I snipped the first feather, I got a terrible sinking feeling in my gut that this would...

hi :) havent posted on her in quite a while, but have tried to keep up to date reading all the funny stories. im looking for advice. I've had skittles a little over a year now. when he came to me his wings were stripped to the quill (either done by the breeder or was a destructive behavior...

I feel like theres some controversy for whether or not you should clip your birds wings... What are the pros and cons of clipping wings?

Buddy (boy) had to have his wings trimmed last time he broke a blood feather, the vet told me to leave bonnies (girl) feathers to grow as they were still quite short. So hers have come back enough to the point where she can fly a few feet. Now my question is should I have her wings clipped...

Back again, I separated my two conures but a lot of the time I still have the both with me. Buddy (boy) had to have his wings trimmed last time he broke a blood feather, the vet told me to leave bonnies (girl) feathers to grow as they were still quite short. So hers have come back enough to the...

Hi guys, I'm just wondering how often you need to clip your alex's? Vino was clipped right before I got her at the beginning of august and she still has the clipped primaries. I'm expecting her to start molting any day now so i'm guessing she'll molt them out then and then need to be...

I need help. My dad wants us to re-clip my conure because she is in the middle of her first molt and can fly now. She doesn't fly often, and when she does it's because she's spooked. She doesn't go 10 feet from where she was, and often goes back to land where she was again. I don't think she...