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clipping wings

  1. mangosaur

    Uneven wings

    Hi Everyone! Just looking for advice, my conure Darcy came to me clipped 2 months ago. However, one of his wings looks damaged and is dramatically shorter than the other, he can’t get any lift from that wing so when he spooks, he will fall on that wing and has broken a blood feather due to this...
  2. alyssanor

    DO I CLIP THE COCKATIELS WINGS.......

    i have said in other posts that i need to clip their wings but you guys say no.............
  3. Nostromo

    Unsure whether to clip older (rescue) parrot

    Hello everyone, I am the very fortunate owner of a sweet and delightful nine year old female blue head Pionus named Zephyr. We adopted her almost exactly a year ago. As far as I am aware, she has been clipped her entire life and doesn't really know how to fly - she is not very interested...
  4. Violaxo

    Bad wing clipping

    so my budgie seems to have had a bad wing clipping .... all the feathers are clipped on both wings, except they left the long primary feathers on her left wing. Is this okay for now, or should I take her back... I’m skeptical about taking her back because she has been to and from the vet the...
  5. Neko and Echo

    Discussion about Clipping Wings

    I am not planning on clipping my bird's wings but I am just curious about your views and opinions on clipping conures (any other birds are fine too :) ) I have heard both sides of the argument but I just want to do more research about the topic
  6. Nukavine

    Starting the Hand Taming Process

    So if anyone has kept up with my posting where I said we had to grab Sol, a cockatiel, and freak him out to get him in his cage, well it happened again a week or so ago, I tried to let him out to begin the process but he didn't feel like letting me, he'd just fly away. So now sadly he's been...
  7. Saya

    Growing up and growing wings

    My baby starling (they are legal to keep as pets) has, in the past 4 days, gained the ability of flight (he's about 3 to 4 weeks old). He has started getting into really high places where I'd prefer him not be such as on top of ceiling fans and on cabinets. He is the sweetest little thing and...
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