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From: susans@cfi.COM (susans)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR: Wing clipping
Message-ID: <1017@cfiprod.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 17:41:23 GMT
References: <7022@fs2.cam.nist.gov> <3215@legs.UUCP>
Reply-To: susans@cfiprod.UUCP (Susan Scheide -CFI-)
Organization: Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, Mass.
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In article <3215@legs.UUCP> freds@legs.UUCP (Fred Sieg) writes:
>in article <7022@fs2.cam.nist.gov>, blue@cam.nist.gov (Jim Blue) says:
>> 
>We leave the two outermost flight feathers intact and clip the following
>half dozen or so down to the tips of the next layer. This doesn't seem
>to hurt their appearance when the wings are tucked in either.
>

	Please note that this will NOT work on a cockatiel.
	Notoriously strong fliers, mine need only one flight
	feather on each side to fly across my (large) livingroom.

	Particularly if you plan (don't) on taking your cockatiel
	outside, you really need to clip ALL the flights.

	One of my birds is obsessed with me, and when I decided
	to (just once) let his wings grow in, he flew across
	the room, landed on my friend's face, and started to
	peck at his eyes--he was giving me a goodbye hug at the
	time.  It was terrifying for all of us.

	Needless to say, Flipper will NEVER fly free again.

-- 
                        Susan S. (susans@cfi.com)

                        Another Friend of Bill's