Your Parrot - Can You Clip Its Wings?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
Whether or not to clip your parrot’s wings will be debated forever. You’ll find good arguments on both sides. In the end, only you can make that decision. Whatever what you’re considering, I would like to recommend you to get well informed.
For many people, a bird’s wings clipping is just a haircut. Maybe they’re right but human do not depend on their hair to get around and avoid danger. Your parrot does. Now, maybe you should also take into account that feathers will grow back. So, it’s not an irreversible decision. After a while, your parrot should be able to fly normally again.
Advocates of clipping say that a clipped bird is less likely to fly away or be injured as a result of getting to dangerous objects like toxic chemicals around the house or a hot stove. But even clipped birds have been known to fly away. For this reason some people {advocate|argue that you should be} clipping both the primary and secondary flight feathers.
On the other side, opponents argue that a bird is meant to fly. A bird that is allowed to fly will have a stronger respiratory system. Their main argument is also that the clipped bird results defenseless; he is no longer able to get away from cats and Dogs or other dangers. A bad wing clip can lead to plucking and sometimes in extreme cases to injury.
You’ll have to decide what’s best for your bird given the environment he will live in. Take your decision carefully. Maybe one acceptable compromise it to clip you parrot only part of the year, during summer when the weather is warm and windows are generally opened. Consider the options and then decide.
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