Trick or 'Tiel wrote:I would love to free fly my birds someday, but for now I think it's just too risky. With the birds I currently have I won't be freeflying them, just because they are so small and could get lost so easily. They also never go outside so they would probably get spooked by a noise and off they go. I personally wouldn't enjoy having an aviary, just because birds that live in an aviary are usually not tame. I HATE it when people buy budgies and lovebirds and just treat them like decorations who sit in a cage and tweet a pretty song, if you want a bird like that just get a canary. Parrots are a lot of work, no matter the size, and people really should start treating small ones like their bigger cousins.
liz wrote:Free flying scares me. There are so many preditors waiting to get them. Even big birds are not safe.
I watched a video where a man had his Cockatoo on his shoulder when a hawk came down and tried to take it. He had to physically fight the hawk off. Then the hawk came back and tried a second time. I am sure his Cockatoo developed PTSD.
I had a chicken from one day old. All she had to interact with was dogs. They accepted her and she must have thought she was a dog. She went out to play when they did and came in when they did. One day it was raining and my "sissy" dogs did not got out until late afternoon. They came in without Chick Chick. The next morning the dogs found her and was bringing her in with them. It was truly awful what she had gone through. She was so big that a hawk could not pick her up. Instead the hawk ripped her back off from head to tail with only muscle left showing. Feathers, skin and fat where all gone from wing to wing. She had been in so much pain that she could not move to come in the night before. It was awful and I cried for her while tending the wound.
I would not let any bird smaller than an emu outside without a cage.
stevesjk wrote:Yes but when mistakes happen its not the human that has to endure being eaten alive for 2 hours.
If the human's life depended on it rather than the birds would the human still risk freeflying? I Doubt it.
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