Please Help me

[hbozss]

I have peafowl and their flight features are clipped. They are one year old. Will they remain "clipped" until their next molt or I need to remove them to grow back their feathers so that they can fly. I want them to be free range. Please guide me. Thanks

 

[Alaskan]

I would have the free range while clipped... so they stay closer to home and learn to stay.

When their feathers grow back in at the next molt they will hopefully be imprinted enough that they do not fly off..... or, you can trim them.

 

[hbozss]

I would have the free range while clipped... so they stay closer to home and learn to stay.

When their feathers grow back in at the next molt they will hopefully be imprinted enough that they do not fly off..... or, you can trim them.

Will it grow back fully? They are one year old now

 

[Alaskan]

Will it grow back fully? They are one year old now

It depends on what was actually done.

If they were pinioned (so the last wing joint cut off), they will never be able to fly.

If the feathers themselves were cut, then every time their feathers grow back in (at every molt) they will regain the ability to fly.

Of course, some, after not being able to fly for a year...don't notice that things have changed, and so don't even try.

 

[hbozss]

After one year later they’ll molt even their flight features. Or I need to remove the cut feathers to grow it now

 

[Alaskan]

After one year later they’ll molt even their flight features. Or I need to remove the cut feathers to grow it now

Whenever they next molt... new flight feathers will grow in. When the next molt is.. is variable... they might regrow some flight feathers this spring.

If you want new flight feathers to grow in now, yes, you would have to pull out the cut stubs now.

Personally I wouldn't do that... the flight feathers have big feather shafts and will need a quality tug... I would be worried that I might hurt the bird.

 

[hbozss]

Whenever they next molt... new flight feathers will grow in. When the next molt is.. is variable... they might regrow some flight feathers this spring.

If you want new flight feathers to grow in now, yes, you would have to pull out the cut stubs now.

Personally I wouldn't do that... the flight feathers have big feather shafts and will need a quality tug... I would be worried that I might hurt the bird.

Thank you. Better I will wait till next molt.