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Originally Posted by Many Feathers

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.

By "fat", she means she might weigh in at 125 lbs., soaking wet, if that :-).

Originally Posted by Many Feathers

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.

You know, sweet Kenobi will fly to me every single time (indoors or out in the aviary), no questions asked. You raised him up right! Even Rowan isn't 100%, but Kenobi is. I think we need to find someone to help us train our most trusted birds. Can you imagine the sight of your yellow "Scarlets of another color" flying free like they were intended to? That would be magnificent! I hope we can do it someday.