Question: Advantages of clipping wings?
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Answer #1:
It's really depends on your lifestyle and your preferences. Will you be leaving her out of her cage, supervised or not? Are there other animals in your house that could accidentally harm her? Can she potentially fly out an open window or door? These are all questions you will need to ask yourself.
Not clipping...
Pros: can get exercise flying around and can be entertaining to watch
Cons: can injure herself flying into objects or potentially fly out a door/window
Clipping:
Pros: restricts flying (does not completely prevent it)
Cons: not as visually appealing (although, you can ask whoever clips to leave the front two primary feathers intact and this will usually look better)
Hope this helps!
Answer #2:
Dangerous situations are inevitable when dealing with almost everything (children included).
Wing clipping is not necessary and as you said, there are pros and cons.
Pros: In the unlikely event the tiel breaks free outside of the home, you may be able to quickly recover it.
Birds love to fly towards windows and sliding glass doors while out of their cages. Wing clipping may render birdy unable to gain the altitude needed to reach a window.
It can also be easier to train the cockatiel with clipped wings, especially because she is young.
You may be able to "contain" the bird in the places where you want it. It can be kept in one room and can be scooted back to another if it reaches an area out of bounds. Depending on how far up the wings have been clipped, it may not be able to fly past your head, so it can be easy to contain it.
Cons:
If the tiel is loose outdoors, predators will be able to catch her quickly.
Some fanciers argue that clipping damages a bird's self-esteem. Birds feel vulnerable while close to the ground. They are nervous animals. That is why some birds will not allow you to watch them while they sleep. They may eat in haste, quickly turning and surveying your position before going for another few seeds. Clipping the wings may make the nervous tendencies naturally present, a little worse.
Although the bird may not be able to reach high surfaces in your home, it may be able to land on dangerous surfaces, such as stoves, sink with garbage disposable, toilet, in an effort to gain some height. Remember, birds have wings for a reason. They naturally prefer higher places to perch as they are nervous, and not many predators can follow them into the trees and such.
If she has not presented any problems now, there is no guarantee that she will be spooked by the things she is experiencing now. Little by little, she will be able to gain more height as she outgrows her previous clipping. Watch her behavior and then make your decision to clip her wings again, or let them be.
Answer #3:
Everyone will have their own opinions about this. For me, I try to get my cockatiel's wings clipped when I can. My reasons are this:
Living Conditions - my cockaitel is currently housed in our laundry room with our rabbit (not in the same cage, of course). The laundry room is the perfect temperature for my pets, allows them to receive some natural light (along with the view out the window), and a nice place to be let out to play (gotta love wooden floors!). But, the garage is right out the next door, and I'm sure we all know where the garage leads to when a garage door is up... My point exactly. I do my best to let my cockatiel out of his cage on a daily basis. I don't need to be in the same room as he is because he usually likes to hang out on his rope perch which goes around his cage. He can go in and out of his cage as he pleases. My biggest reason for clipping his wings are that in the case a garage door is open and the laundry room which goes out into the garage is open (possibly while someone is walking in) and Dewey, my bird, is let out. If something were to spook him, he'd go flying and probably wouldn't stop! This hasn't happened yet, but it's a big concern.
Flying Over People - Like I said, Dewey is let out of his cage daily. Whenever we walk into the laundry room (either to do laundry or get to the garage), he likes to fly over our heads as if he's claiming that the room is his territory. This scares my family members because they're afraid he'll land on their heads (though he does a complete 360 degree from his cage and back)!
Play Time - Sometimes, when it's time for Dewey to go into his cage for the night, he'll play a game where he flies all around the laundry room until I can get him to step-up onto my finger. This can take a couple minutes depending on how playful he's trying to be. If it were an emergency and I needed Dewey to step-up onto my finger in a split second, having his wings clipped wouldn't allow him to fly all over the place. So, not only does this make getting the bird back into the cage easy, but it's very important for emergency purposes, as well!
The only cons I can think of when it comes to clipping a bird's wing is the "beauty" that you lose of the bird being able to fly like it would be able to in the wild. I don't really see a point in this, but like I said before, everyone has their own opinions and thoughts on this subject.
Answer #4:
Speaking of wings and not clipping wings, my parakeet just flew around my apartment twice and almost hurt itself. But luckily, it didn't. It just gently hit the wall and landed on the floor, but some horrible things might of happened. It could've hit the wall much harder and gotten hurt.And cutting the wings won't hurt them, as long as you don't cut them too short.
Well, any hoo, for the pros and cons.
Pros:
Won't hit somewhere or get hurt.
Can save the bird from injury or death.
Cons:
(this only applies to those who don't know how to cut) the wing might bleed because you made a mistake/ did it wrong.
I'd definetly cut it, and here's where I learned how to cut my birds wings:
Click Here
but since you have a cockatiel I reccomend this:
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Hope it helped! ♥:)
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