23 February 2012

Aviary Update

I have now sold all my Green cheeked Conure babies but I'm still trying to sell my young male Princess Parrot and finding someone to swap my young Scarlet breasted Parrots (hopefully for a new male).

One of my young Scarlet Breasted Parrots seems to be a male it is starting to develop scarlet spots on its chest but it is related to the other birds in the cage unfortunately.

I have had another death in the grass parrot bird cage. One of my female Bourke Parrots I found dead in a feed dish on the floor of the aviary. I'm hoping this is unrelated to my two Scarlet's that I lost recently and I'm putting this one down to old age. I did purchase her as a pair and her then owner did not know how old they were but had purchased them from a local pet shop, I'm assuming she went through a few pairs of hands and was probably 10 years plus. She has never been a successful breeder for me (not for her lack of trying) but this would cause breeders to get rid of them.