Mine usually don't flop until I try and pick'm up. I was carrying one out of the woods one day and he went to flopping and got his spurs hung in my gloves and I could'nt turn him lose, every time his wing would hit my leg it would spin him around again, Almost broke a finger or 2 and did ruin a perfectly good pair of camo gloves, from now on I make sure he has got his flopping done before I pick him up.