My dog groomer owns a pet store that hand rasies all types of birds and does nail, beak and wing clipping so i'm not worried at all about taking my birds there. I'm going to ask that she only take about 5 feathers off and see if that works because i know when i bought them they had severe clippings and fell straight down to the ground. if i need to take off more then i will but as u said, since they are used to flying less might be better. I'll let u know how it goes and thank you for responding.