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Good luck with that! How fortunate for you to have an indoor soccer field available to fly your birds. I'm totally envious. Mine are stuck with the parameters of the rooms in the house, until I build a good sized outdoor aviary, when I eventually have some funds for one. They're not cheap to do right. None of my birds are clipped, (unless I aquired them that way, but then they are always let to grow out.) I think its cruel to clip. Macaws are designed to fly. My cockatoos fly, too, (in their room, or the living room.) I want to free fly the birds, but I am afraid its me who is handicapped. I have a damaged-surgeried knee, and cant run any more, and have since become fat, too, as a result, to complicate the issue even more. I'm not so worried about losing birds as I am about not being able to chase after them if they go off somewhere. 3 of the macaws will fly to me on command, but sometimes drag their heels a little before they come just to show me they are in control. Of course, a treat will bring them quicker. But, they usually fly to me because its fun. I still need to learn recall and all that other good stuff, too.
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