Ciry is free

[Johnny]

So we finally finished our free-flight training, and it is awesome !

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Here are some photos of flying on and off the balcony at our place and other stuff

Enjoy!

 

[Narkissios]

Out of interest why do you throw her?

 

[JerseyWendy]

I have a question, too. Are you never worried that Ciry may not come back?

How did you teach her that?

I honestly wish I had enough confidence to let my guys do that (providing Niko's one wing ever grows back enough flight feathers).

WOW, has Ciry grown up!!! She is beautiful!!!!

 

[Featheredsamurai]

That's awesome, it looks like you've done a lot of training and it's paying off. It's so amazing to see them in flight!

I would like to strongly recommend you don't throw her. Free flying is dangerous and our birds have much better eye site and should be allowed to fly when they feel safe. A bird who is forced to fly with a hawk or falcon high in the sky or in a nearby tree may spook, it's a ticking time bomb for a fly away. It almost seems like she doesn't want you to pick her up and throw her again by the way you pick her up by her feet, rather than having he willingly step up.

It will be a lot of work to training out the throwing, but it will be worth it and your macaw will be happier(and more prepared) to fly.

 

[Pinkbirdy]

Woderful!!! Beautiful to watch Tell us about Ciry .

 

[Johnny]

Hey guys

So we starter with a few walks around the park with harness on, so she would slowly adapt on the otside environment. This was very important. After around ~20 walks, we went to our field and started with the harness-string training.
First, we were sending her between me and her mum (my gf) to a distance max 10 meters. After few days, we prolonged that distance to about 20m. Then we went to out fotball ground and started with the circle training. The flight training took us about 2 weeks of training, day by day. She learns very quickly. After that, we went to the field again and set her free

The video i posted is from the first ever free-flight day.

Now about the throwing. Ciry is very lazy-dont-want-to-do-things like. When we trained, there was no other option than throw her so she would fly to me or her mum. She is used to it, there was no other option how to teach her. She would just sit many hours on her perch if we wouldnt throw her And I dont see anything bad in it, it gives her a little bit of speed, she wont fly back so quickly and so on. Ofcourse now we dont throw her anymore, we usually start running with her on our back and then we jump and she starts flying, or just let her go of our hand. She sometimes doesnt want to step up, because she is still very young and she ALWAYS loses interest in everything when she is outside. She justs sits and observe the environment.

I thought I would be more worried when I first let her fly without harness. But I was kind of OK. Now I am sure that she will always come back. We already had a few accidents, but she always came back (for example, a runner runs around us and she gets scared, flies away from my shoulder, but after a moment she turns back and comes to me, or the WORST thing that happened to us is that some idiot fired out of cannon or something, BANG like crazy and ciry ended up on a tree But after 5 minutes she came back of course.

And thank you guys

Edit: Forgot to say, I am a little bit worried about the flying, because she is underweighted a bit (she has 880g) so I am giving her more nuts to get fat, because with this much movement she would lose even more weight

 

[Wdlodge]

She is so beautiful. Love seeing birds in action. I think they are happier free flighted. Good job. Awesome!

 

[Birdlover1]

Thats amazing!Im looking forward to free fight training my B&G and my budgie!It'll probably be a year or more for my B&G but my budgie will start training once his flight feathers come it ^-^