Clipping A Cockatiel’s Wings
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- I wanted to let our cockatiel out of her cage more often and to do so she needed her wings clipped. She is much calmer and her free out of cage experience is much more pleasant for everyone, especially her. This prevents her from startling, flying away, crashing into things and possibly escaping to her detriment.
I'm an amateur who has clipped our cockatiel's wings a number of times with success over the years. I would usually trim the inner or secondary feathers of her wings. This time I trim her outer four primary wing feathers below the primary coverts. I found this much easier than cutting the secondaries. Next time I would trim the primaries a little less to give her a little more capability.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Enjoy,
Jim
I raised cockatiels for 20 years. It's not abuse. It's completely painless to trim their wings but this bird is not very tame. My birds have never nipped at me for cutting their wings. She was scared. You just cut their wings enough were they can still fly but not too high and not too fast so they don't get their wings injured by flying into a window, picture frame or wall. Birds have even suffered from broken necks flying into walls. Trimming their wings keep them from hitting windows and getting injured and you can't train a bird to fly properly indoors. People can be so ignorant. Have you ever had a wild bird get in your home and you can see this but it's the same with pet birds. They can't be trained to fly "properly" indoors. I would agree that cutting a cats claws can be painful and bad but it's completely NOT painful at all to trim a birds wings. My birds are happy and healthy and very much loved. My cockatels would come right over to me and have enough wing span to fly to me (they love being with me) but not enough wing span to get injured. They sing and are extremely happy. They don't mind having their wings trimmed at all. They can still fly but not with force and distance to get injured.
I think she is a he with those bold yellow feathers coming in lol
Def a boy
Thank you for the video:) I hope you enjoy your cockatiel as much as I do mine! I only cage mine to sleep he has designated “play” areas in each room with a perch so he can hangout with us.
When will wings regrow
The feathers are always growing and the bird is continually moulting. At least once a year, maybe twice, the cockatiel will have a very heavy moult replacing many more feathers at one time. In three to six months the feathers would be replaced to the point where she is flying very well again.
@@Jim.Zellner Thanks Jim! My cockatiel was clipped when I got her but I want her to be free to fly
Clip to slow down flight not to ground the tiel. Let the first two primary feathers alone.
That cage is WAY too small. No natural texture perches only circular which is awful for their feet. This breaks my heart. Please tell me she’s not just eating seed too 💔
This is just bad.. That cage is WAYY too small, doesn't have any shredding toys out of paper, and clipping a birds wings isn't good, at ALL!
I’m not going to disagree with you. Clipping her wings and interacting with the bird more is my small attempt to improve the bird’s life.
@ThatOnePTFSGuy it’s not bad to clip a birds wings It’s fine because you might lose you bird so it doesn’t fly out
If u don't know about birds don't comment...Rude!
@@avamonsen6337 The cage is too small for cockatiels lol.
@@Jim.Zellner it is small its ok to clip the bird's wings
yall dont understand that this is abuse its like cutting someones legs off now that bird cant fly from danger. And PEOPLE if your bird is hitting your wall then simple fix TEACH IT HOW TO FLY instend of being lazy and its your fault if your bird flys out the open widown becasue you where ingnorint. ps to the creator of this video i do recommend getting a bigger cage and to stop clipping your birds wings the first half was for some of the commenters who dont understand this is abuse.
It’s not abuse. I just trimmed my birds wing after reading your comment. That’s how meaningless your comment is 😌.
I agree. The bird is clearly not happy the way he cries. I can't watch this.
@@exojongdaestan658 There are people defending him and saying its "ok" to clip a birds wings
I absolutely agree. I am appalled and sad. It's abuse.
We use fans around our house and we trim them so it doesn't fly to its death as out bird is always open and playing
You should never cut any birds feathers they are meant to fly Imagine someone cutting your legs and hands you will not be able to do anything so their feathers are like their hands to them and the way your holding the bird is very painfull , cutting feathers would not hurt you bird , but they will be unable to the the main thing they are meant to.Stop Animal Abuse!!!!
Imagine a bird getting out and being killed by a larger bird.
You should be ashamed of yourself, Allah made that bird with wings and your denaying it of the right to fly. Brov who told you to do that
it’s ok to trim the wings
it’s ok to trim the wings the bird may fly out the window and he’ll never see it again
So it’s ok to trim the birds wings because I did that to my birds and one of them flew away because I didn’t trim the wing
Allah doesn’t care as long as your not hurting the bird and cutting it too short
Actually it’s perfectly fine if u clip ur wings in islam .. there are many fatwas by scholars u can look it up
@@idrees6192 true