Need advice on clipping wings.

[texascowboy1979]

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Birds with only one wing clipped will stop and try to fly when a predator comes and flop over right in the predators mouth. When you turn a peafowl loose, you have no way of knowing if it will ever come back. If you want you birds to free range you just have to take your chances.

I wish you would have told that to my Java male, Because the last time I seen him he was about 100' up and climbing with no signs of coming down and he was headed South, he looked like a speck on my glasses the last time I seen him. that was 2 months ago and he is probably down on the South Texas Beaches checking out the scenery.

Hey Steve... if he makes it to my area, cause Im in SOUTH TEXAS... Ill catch him for you... I'll use one of my more "ATTRACTIVE" peahens to lure him in...

 

[deerman]

sure they will fly away...just try and catch one, they fly very well, just like all pheasant.

 

[degan]

Should I just let them out one at a time or does it really matter?

 

[NateinFL]

I can tell you from experience this: Even with only ONE clipped wing, and I mean I clipped it close, I had a male IB hop my 6 ft fence. They're off balance but it was almost as if he flapped and climbed his way to the top and was gone for 3 days before he came back. I have no idea where he was but he's lucky he didnt come across coyotes, bobcats, fox, etc. So I only clip now when I first get them, after that if they want to leave, at least they will have flight to escape predation.