Flight Feather Grooming (a.k.a Wing Clipping)
May 22, 2015 • Healthy Lifestyle, Challenges of Companion Parrots, HARI TV
This video presents various topics pertaining to flight feather management (feather grooming/wing clipping) considerations:
- Using the proper terminology: flight feather grooming instead of wing clipping
- Flight experience prior to flight feather grooming
- Gradual grooming if situation permits
- Potential consequences due to excessive flight feather grooming
- Ethical Considerations for towel restraint to perform safe grooming techniques
- Flight feather grooming techniques (demonstrations)
- Post grooming considerations
- Assessment of flight ability post grooming
- Weight management opportunity while visiting your avian groomer
- Caution when considering nail grooming at the same time
- Flight feather grooming without restraint. Caution: exclusively for desensitized birds and the skilled handler
- Conserve groomed feathers for health evaluation
- Feather Damaging Behavior: Considerations,history and onset due to flight feather grooming
- Grooming schedule: Monitoring molting patterns
- Considerations for re-homed birds
- Understanding behaviors related to parrots with managed flight
- Professional avian groomer: experienced, skilled & hygienic
- Adaption to reduced flight ability
