Wing clipping?

zephyricle said:

I can give some samples I pit on a picture I snagged off google

Ok so for starters, if they've got their full grown feathers, go ahead!

So when you clip wings, you should pick ONE wing, not both. Secure the bird under your arm and extend their wing, like this

(Honestly i don't know of this picture came from this site or not haha just pulled it off google)
There's two parts of the wing that should be worried about. The green and the yellow sections

There's a certain part of the wing that you want to worry about cutting.
Feel the wing to see where the meat is so you don't cut it on accident.
Now, what I do is cut along the line givendors to you along the wing feathers like this

You want to make sure you don't cut the wing much deeper than the blue line

You CAN cut the back part of the wing showed below as green

BUT you can keep it if you want your birds to look less like a wreck. Haha.
With my turkeys I chose to cut those because they are a lot larger and could still get around woth the back piece.

The reason you only clip one wing like this is because they rely on aerodynamics to fly. If one wing os clipped, they lose that. If both are clipped, then they are even on both sides and gives it back.

Another thing to look out for is that if they RECENTLY finished a molt, you should keep an eye on the wing feathers you cut. Make sure they don't have deep red in the stems where you're cutting. Those are blood feathers. It's pretty unlikely that they will be up that far on the feathers, but I've heard of cases where the cut a but too far and the bird starts bleeding everywhere...
Anyways, I hope this helps, I did my best! Have fun trying to clip them too

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zephyricle said:

Yeah it should be the same. They should be able to jump up perfectly well.

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