African grey my vet clipped one wing lone?
hi my african grey is months old and recently started biting me i spend most time with it too but it never bites my daughter who is out at arts school all day (we both shared rearing him from 4 weeks old) i took him to the vets nearer today to get his wings clipped but they solely clipped one saying he was too stressed to do the other is it wrong/dangerous to leave him near just one wing clipped
no it it's fine to single have one wing clipped it will just be harder for the african grey to fly.
most people lone have one wing clipped on birds so then they can't fly away.
Stress is bad for birds. Evidently they thought the stress was too much. Many associates only have one wing clipped. However this has a disposition to put the bird off balance. Observe your bird and if you don't muse this is working out well, call the vet and ask about getting the other wing clipped.They probably charged you for a full wing clip anyhow. I wouldn't reward for another office call. Should have done it within the first place. My certified avian vet with the help of her tech does both wings within less than a minute. I can't see where this could cause that much more stress.
Answers: I would think your vet and the assistants would be able to towel and clip a bird lacking so much stress.
Greys are particularly clumsy when they are young and clipping only one wing is a tremendously bad practice that throws the bird entirely off balance. Add doomed to failure balance and a rather clumsy young Grey and this is a recipe for catastrophe. Your bird could severely injure itself and/or crush it's own self-confidence.
Please have your bird's wings evenly clipped. If your vet isn't comfortable doing this or doesn't do this well, I'd look for another vet. (Sorry, but I hold avian vet to a certain level of competence with birds whether they are indeed avian vets.)
Colette
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It depends on how many feathers are clipped.
What you should do is, take you bird to a long corridor and force him to fly somehow. If he flys straight, he's fine. If he curves, call your vet and see if she's willing to do the other wing for free.
I agree next to Colette. Of course the bird will be stressed going to the vet, but exams and procedures have to be done. A good Avian vet would towel the bird. It is not safe to clip simply one wing. It throws the birds balance off completely. Can a plane fly if a flap on one wing is tatty? It's the same principle.
