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Postby Cage Cleaner » Tue Aug 02, 2016 3:38 pm

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Re: Confirmed Problems at Bird Fairs

Postby Bird woman » Tue Aug 09, 2016 7:58 am

I don't know how there could possibly be an accurate response to this as it takes quite some time for most transmitted diseases to rear there ugly heads.and if a person is uneducated enough to pack there birdie up and visit one of these gatherings , well they probably take them to pet stores that sell birds etc. etc. etc. so who knows for sure where they may have contracted problems. I used to be one of those ignoramises , not anymore. I only take my birds shopping at stores that don't sell birds and when they go to my avain vet I use sanitizer wipes on there tables , bench and the perch they want them to stand on when they get weighed. Kind of a over protective mom I guess. :roll: BW And yes I did take my darling Rosie to a bird fair when I first got her many years ago , my first bird and I lost her to what ever I lost her to ,nobody ever figured it out after a very lengthy illness and many many thousands of dollars and world renound avain specialist all over the country. Did she get something there , who knows but many years later I know better now!
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Re: Confirmed Problems at Bird Fairs

Postby JaydeParrot » Thu Sep 22, 2016 2:18 pm

I went to one and was sickened with what I saw, birds in terribly small cramped conditions, birds screaming in fear and fluttering about wildly and one particularly upsetting moment when a man looked at a bonded pair and said he only needed the female, I'll never forget the screaming, of both birds as they were forcibly seperated one put into a box and the other forced to remain where it was, they screamed for each other as the man walked off with the female, never to see each other again.

I have photos of alot of things that occured at the event, birds in cages so small they couldn't even stand up right. What angered me the most was I repeatedly tried to get the local animal rights agency involved, they danced around the problem for ages and then told me I'd have to personally take on the council for the district the show was located in.

The people at that show got very hostile and unpleasant towards me when they saw I had a camera, some even actually following me around for ages. Unless I wanted serious trouble I couldn't take on the council on my own, I could find no other fellow birders who wanted to get that far involved so I decided I had to leave it. My advise is that unless you know you can provide an actual good difference then don't bother going, all you'll do is give money towards a gangster style business of putting profits far above the well being of someone's own life.

As far as diseases are concerned I'd definitely stay away, you don't know where any of these birds have been and it only takes one diseased bird to infect an entire flock. My own sennies were brought from a fairly fuzzy background and four years later one died from bornavirus which apparently he must have brought with him because they were the only birds I had.

Purely for the sake of health and safety I really think these 'everyone bring your bird' places should be abolished. I got very angry one time with a guy in an avian vets who stroked my bird without asking before going back to stroke his own, I wasn't angry for my sake only, my bird was ill and he'd just happily potentially cross contaminated his bird without a single thought (the guy was apparently there an hour earlier than he was meant to be- the vet wasn't pleased).

So, yeah, that's my personal view on bird shows anyways...
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Re: Confirmed Problems at Bird Fairs

Postby Pajarita » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:06 pm

I never (and I do mean NEVER EVER EVER) go to or attend any sort of venue where there is explicit or implicit commercializing of birds. Period! I don't even go to the song canary, dog or cats shows...
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