[Avalon_Princess]

Well, contray to all family traditions, my gran gave me money for my birthday so I've now got enough for virtually any type of harness for Echo, which is something I really want as I spend a lot of time outside and feel so bad locking Echo up every time I go outside to work (I live on a farm). Mum really wants me to get a flight suit so he's not pooping everywhere as apparently it stains (it doesn't, but she won't believe me LOL), but I'm pretty good at sewing, so I think I could make a decent one that could be tailored to fit Echo and if it's only used inside when he doesn't need to be controlled, just where Mum doesn't want him pooping (ie hanging out watching TV with me and playing on the carpet etc), the problems of it not being secure aren't there.

So I'm also looking at harnesses and on my list of possibilities are

The Aviator Harness, $49.95+$5.20 postage
http://www.myparrotshop.com/bird-ac...ss-leash-with-instructional-dvd/prod_312.html

The Jazzy bird harness $14+$1.50 postage
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Jazzy-Bird-H...20734QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

Bird Harness $14+$9.25 postage
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Bird-Harness...ryZ20734QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Flightsuit $24.60+$5.90 postage
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BIRD-DIAPER-...ryZ20734QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm leaning towards the aviator harness, as it looks really safe and easy to put on, but not too sure on my skills at making a flight suit LOL, and don't ave the money for both.

 

[atvchick95]

I bought the harnesses for budgies and tiels - they were both a fiqure 8 design, I couldn't fiqure out how to use them and once i thought i did my birds almost choked thier self but got out of them - glad i was inside!

this is the flight suit i bought, but it was on sale when i bought it
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Produ...allpartial&Ntk=All&N=2003&Ntt=flightsuit&Np=1


by the way bird poop does stain the carpet @ my other house I had tan carpet all through the main rooms(living room , bedrooms) and I had multi colored dots every where a bird ever went to the bathroom

in my house i'm in now I have marroon carpet and I still have stains where the birds Miss the rugs or trays

the flight suit i trust more so then a harness, We used it on our quaker and 2 of our tiels

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Which harness do you have? I put up three different ones... is it the feather tether? The aviator is meant to be guaranteed escape proof and I really like the way the lead can swing between the back and the chest so they don't get tangled if they take off... As I would like to flight train Echo so he can enjoy himself outside, but want something thats completely safe.

 

[atvchick95]

i'll have to see if the store i bought it at has it on thier website, because we took them back the same day we bought them

I put the one for budgies on my budgie, and it about choked him to death so i took it off and did it again (followed the directions to the T) and he got out of it within seconds of it bieng on, if i find it i'll repost here


I found it , it was the Feather Tether
http://www.petsmart.com/product/ind.../PET/2769096&fbc=1&parentPage=family&keepsr=1

we had the size for quakers and Parakeets (which was xtra small - Petite)

and on both of them thier feet kept getting caught in the material its made out of

on my quaker he unsnapped the clipping mechanism on his own and got out of it

 

[Bea]

Without a doubt i would go with the aviator harness!! It has such a fantastic reputation, comes with a training dvd so you can learn how to use it most effectively, and it's supposed to be the most comfortable and escape proof harness on the market.

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Yah I'm leaning towards it, and it would be fun trying to make a flight suit, Echo is a pretty good bird as long as I let him play with one of our old broken keyboards he's an absolute angel when I do things to him LOL, ie stretch out his wings so I could look at the wingclip LOL.

So far all the reviews I've read have been really good and it looks so simple to put on.

 

[Bea]

I think if he's easy to work with now he'll take really well to the aviator. It's more expensive, but i think you will get what you pay for. The two harnesses other than the flight suit and aviator i wouldn't consider at all, they look cheap and just generally suss.

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Yah they do, but as both aren't shown on real birds, it's not very useful in getting an idea of how well they'd fit LOL and after reading a story about a bird being killed by a feather tether, I'm not even considering it LOL.

Since Echo's so young I want to get a harness ASAP so he can grow up with it and be totally used to it and it will mean he can go more places which I'm sure he wouldn't mind LOL.

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Oh and will need to get better pics of the harness, you have one don't you Bea? I need pics of it not on a bird to show how it all goes together, I have a basic idea but the pics on the net don't show the seams.

 

[Aly]

After researching it for my babies, I also decided on the aviator harness too. I haven't gotten it yet, but it's by far the most comfortable and safe for them.

 

[xxxSpikexxx]

I thought this one looked neat https://healthybird.net/store/produ...d=742&osCsid=351672df3fe48e0c9459a67e2360b216 I don't know if the avaitor harness would protect the rugs though.

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Well I'd make a flight suit for when he's inside if I get the aviator harness.

 

[Aly]

I don't think he's feel very comfortable wearing the suit inside...if it's only a poop issue do what I do and cut little pieces of papertowel and keep them with you. As soon as he poops, clean it up.

 

[Avalon_Princess]

That's what I'm doing now LOL, Mum's not happy, he's fine in his designated play areas to do what he wants, but he likes watching TV with me etc as well.

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Hmm, I made a flightsuit, god knows why they cost so much, easy peasy to do, the hardest bit was getting Echo to try it on, he bit me a few times, but not overly hard, he does the same thing when I take a toy he likes away, but once the suit was on settled down, I've got it at his size now, now, so just need to do all the final touches, and I have a flight suit LOL, will spend time properly introducing it to him though, ie hide it for a few weeks till he forgets about it and start slowly getting him used to it.

Will def be buying an aviator harness then since I can make a flight suit.

 

[Bea]

You should post some pics of your homemade flight suit. They aren't a highly complex design, that's for sure!

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Well I'll definitely be getting the aviator harness, kind of annoyed though just noticed you can only get the tiel size in black or red, darn I wanted the silver one to match Echo, oh well.

 

[Bea]

I think black would look nice too!

 

[Avalon_Princess]

Well I put the order in, I ended up choosing red as thinking about it, Echos the exact same colour as the gum trees round here so if (god forbid) he gets loose while wearing the harness he'll at least be easy to spot. He's learning to come on command though and is getting pretty good at it as well, but better to be safe then sorry, also ordered a few other bits and pieces as well LOL.

 

[DeBree420]

i have a few of those cheap harnesses... i think the third link down, the one on the fake budgie...
i find them to be a perfectly fine design, the aviator by far would be the best harness (easiest to put on, least likely to distract) but my guys do still like to go out in the cheap harnesses, they are perfectly comfortable and the only drawback is that the shiny clip seems to be so interesting, even before they have ever worn it, they get to play with it, to familiarize the harness as a non-scary object, they all go crazy over the clip...
the feather tether i would only recommend for a large parrot or cockatoo, i have never found the design to work on a smaller bird

definitely post piks of your flight suit...
i would love to see, even though i have no use for one myself