I was looking through a catalogue yesterday and saw one of these. I've kind of skimmed over them before but decided to read for what reason they were used, which I skimmed over that information also.

Am I correct in reading that it is pretty much a poop sack to prevent poop being dropped around when they fly? Do they have a leash attached?

I was curious if anyone here used one.

you can attach a leach to it (usually comes separate and you've the pay again - go figure ), but especially for larger birds their are certainly less safe for outdoors activities than harnesses.... for smaller birds you can use them to bring them outside with caution... but yes, generally they are used to prevent poop from flying all over the place when the baby's doing loops above peoples heads

I have no clue and have never seen one in use before, but wouldn't they get poop all over their vent feathers?

I've seen pics of birds wearing flight suits and it looks like the area under the vent to catch the poop is not right up against their butts, it looks like there's room for pooping and not getting dirty - but I've never seen one in person. And I have seen people use leashes with them and I've heard people say that the birds generally accept this better than the harnesses. No first hand experience though.

I have one, but have never been able to get it on Ollie. I too wondered about them getting poop on them, but many people use them and swear it doesn't happen (provided you don't leave it on them for days at a time!). The 'poop catching area' hangs down fairly low and far away from their body.

I bought one to use when we go on trips somewhere. Her poop doesn't bother me, but my grandma prefers to keep it off the floor and furniture when we go to visit. I'd like to be able to run errands around town with Ollie, and having a flight suit on her would really help with that. She poops about every 15 minutes. I would never keep it on her while she's just playing on her gyms.

I want to try for a budgie, but I don't have yet. Somebody shoud get for a budgie and tell me if it works.

What makes them less safe? Does the leashs detach easily? If that's the reason, couldn't you attatch the leash (sew it on, clip it on, tie it on)?
I'm having absolutely NO luck with Jack's harness, but I am thinking she would let me put a flightsuit on her since I have been working with her to get used to having cloth on/wrapped around her.

instead of a plastic clip like on harnesses, flight suits usually have those sticky thingies (non-native speaker deficiencies).... you know, those things where there's a rough side and a soft one and they stick together... the leaches have a pad that goes between the 2 patches on the flight suit.... so if you'd pull hard, it could come off.... you could sure sew it on, but you'd still ahve to worry about the flight suit opening if the bird would pull hard on it....

regarding the poop - i havent' had much luck getting it on valo for extended periods of time so i can't really give a quantitative statement, but it looks like it could hold quite some material before it'd actually get all over the birdie.... i'm sure somebody here has more experience iwth that than me....

It's Velcro. It's quite a long strip of it- over 4 inches I'd say, so it'd be pretty hard to get apart unless you're pulling it directly apart. I would take Ollie outside in it, but not for extended periods of time.

thanks.... i hope i'll now finally remember this one