Jasper's Flight Harness Training (Video)

[Anansi]

Good instructional video. I'd have liked it even more if he'd stopped after the second or third time. His poor bird was too through by the end!

 

[katie_fleming]

Yeah his bird was definitely over it.

So I tried with Jasper again last night, now that I could see how to tighten it properly. Unfortunately we had a little incident that I'm still feeling bad about. Just when I got the harness on he started walking away trying to pull it off. I moved my hand over to go to take his first wing out and he stepped up onto my hand instead.

Within a couple seconds he had gotten himself so tangled...crawled up my arm, shoulder, back, freaking out. He bit down on my finger pretty hard when I tried to get him to step up so I could move him back to the table. What a mess.

I think we've just regressed huge.

Maybe I should stop while he finishes his molt...

 

[Anansi]

Ekkie feather types do make the whole harness thing a little tougher in general, so maybe it does make sense to wait a bit. At least until the worst of the molt is over with.