Anybody Breeding

[captwest]

Just wanted to meet some other breeders, I mostly breed Amazons,DYHs,YNs,OWAs and Panamas, also have a couple of dozen tiels(all colors) , a pr of TAGs, pr of Quakers,and IRNs, I'm small time and pretty much sell all my babies locally here in coastal NC (USA)

[Kim S]

I breed showbudgies and tiels. We specialised in yellowcheecked tiels. In the future we would love to get a breeding pair of larger parrots. I would love to get a pair of Jardine's.
I used to breed mainly for the pet trade. I would sell them myself locally. lately I'm getting really fed up with people wanting a bird that is fully trained for a dime, preferably only 2 days after it hatched. So I will be focussing my energy on my showbudgies, trying to get a better show quality birds.

[lzver]

No I'm not a breeder, but I'd love to be one.

If time and money weren't an issue (won a big lottery) I think I would fill my life with birds and want to breed birds. You're very fortunate to be able to breed birds captwest.

[zazanomore]

I think I love the idea of breeding birds more than I would love actually breeding them. But if I could, I think I'd like the breed baby lovebirds.

[captwest]

Hey Kim, I'd like to have a few Yellow cheeks, but i think i'll make do with what i have, I've been buying a few different breeders from here and there and have a good gene pool now, i usually only put one pair together at a time as not to get overloaded, and hold a few back as breeder stock.I have a very large flight cage that i keep them in , i can sit and watch interaction all day, a flock of tiels is pretty amazing , most of my breeders now are my own babies and for the most part are tame and love me, hanging out with them is one of my favorite things to do.I can stick my head and shoulders in their cage and they just mob me.

[Shani]

a flock of tiels is pretty amazing , most of my breeders now are my own babies and for the most part are tame and love me, hanging out with them is one of my favorite things to do.I can stick my head and shoulders in their cage and they just mob me.

That does sound amazing. How'd you get into breeding in the first place captwest? How did you learn correct hand feeding techniques, etc? I'd love to maybe breed one day, but the prospect of it is very daunting, so to speak. I truly admire people who do it correctly.

[captwest]

Hey Shani, my mother had a amazon when we were growing up, when i got older living in panama i wantd a parrot, rather than buying one from the indians in the market i took one from a nest, and some how she survived my handfeeding, of course a lot of my friends wanted birds after meeting mine, she went everywhere and did everything with me including going to school, bar hopping,fishing,motorcycleing etc, As there were many different type of parrots/macaws around my family and friends tryed them all, and i just kind of learned as i went along. When i moved back to the states it was after Cities and i was limited as to how many and what types i could bring back, i brought back my 1st bird a Panama amazon and so did a friends sister, i ended up with her bird and it bonded to my pet and they started layig eggs and i ended up in the bird business. I didn't pursue it very hard til my kids were grown and my 2nd wife (a texas country girl) decided she really loved amazons, of course in the bird world you run into rescue birds and we started taking them in and our flock grew.(like a snowball rolling down a mountian). Anyway i don't spend all of my time in the ocean anymore and Josie and i basically tend our flock 24/7. not that we make any real money but it makes us happy and gives a lot of satisfaction in doing it right, with healthy happy babies.

[captwest]

Hey Kim, do you keep your tiels together in a large flight? Do you keep immatures separate? winter/ spring seems to be their season but i've had good sucess all yr round is that normal in holland? you can always PM me if you don't want to disscuss this sort of things in public, Richard

[Becco Lunatico]

.I can stick my head and shoulders in their cage and they just mob me.

Video pleeeeaaassseee??

[captwest]

hey Becco, i've got some video just need to learn how to get on here, just got a real computer set up with movie maker and all that , it's hard for us old dogs to learn new tricks.