Sunshine; I was TERRIFIED of clipping Molly's wings, because she L-O-V-E-D flying around my bedroom and landing on different places. Once I clipped them I felt reallllyyy bad, but then I noticed she was getting nicer with me, so now im actually glad I cut them, but I might let them grow back again. Oh well, we'll see

yay! could i take a cockatiel out in a travel cage?

Fred- Yup, as long as they are contained, like in a tent or cage, that's fine!

how did you guys learn to clip wings? I want a parrot, just a quaker, but a parrot still this spring, or summer, whichever. I understand they are born in may. I'll need to wait till he's 8 wks to bring him home. But, I'm going to get both a bird harness, and one of those things like a papoose carrier thats a cage for your chest. Hopefully! I see the mfg. is supposedly going out of business, and I can't get it yet. But I am not going to let him like fly around outside or anything. The harness is for extra protection. But I wouldn't use one on one of my keets. We have a great back porch, even tho its an apt. My fiance' has this great bamboo screen that we can roll up or let down. And it comes all the way down and covers the whole area, minus a teensy bit on either side. Now, my keets are not hand tamed, so noboby gets to come outa the cage in that area, BUT this spring, I'll be able to roll their cage out there, with the blind pulled down (its got a lanyard, no cats can get in it, its actually held down, plus of course, I'll be where I can see them. So my keets/finches will get to go out there, and I will also take my quaker out there for some alone time in the nice weather. Just him and me. MUHAHAHAHA, then, even tho the blind is down, he'll be required to wear a harness w/leash. But I gotta know how to clip wings! Who can teach me?

For my parakeet I put it in its Carrier that I got from petco. She loves it.

http://www.petco.com/Shop/Product.aspx?R...ilyID=9601&

One word of advice...DO NOT CLIP YOUR PARAKEETS WINGS BY YOURSELF! Take them to a pet store....We have a pet store here in michigan that does Verde's wings and nails for 5 bucks. (Total...wings and nails, not 5 for each) The reason i tell you this is that if you cut your birds feathers in a certain spot, or too short, you can make them bleed, and with the little blood they have, they can die within seconds. Im sure i could eventually learn if i really wanted to, but its much safer to have a pro do it...Plus, i think they said you only want to do like 10 feathers at a time...Its a very tedious process...your bird might move the wrong way, and bam, you clip that vein in his wing....They know how to carefully hold birds, so that doesnt happen...

I agree with Verdes mommy, even though I had clipped my bird's wings nine years ago I still took Nacho to the vet to get clipped cause I know the danger they could be in (and nine years ago it was me and a bird breeder that did it together).

I disagree, a lot of people on here clip their bird's wings because somebody's shown them how. If you know what you're doing and have quick stop or flour near-by you should be ok.

If you're trying it for the first time alone, don't do it. Let someone teach you first.

I don't want to take him outside until probably 2 months from now (because of the temp.).
But how exactly do the leashes work. Because maybe I could make my own or something. I just need to know how they go on the parakeet. The neck seems dangerous and the foot is asking for a broken leg. Does it go around their waistish area or something? :p

And I kinda didn't want to clip his wings until I posted this. Maybe Sunny will be gentler and nicer if I clip them. I just hope the people at Petsmart know what they're doing ... But I'll do a lot of research before I go there. I'm a little nervous after they clipped his nails and they started bleeding ...