HELP PLEASE

[Tinalee]

IM LOOKING TO GET A NEW COMPANION, AND IVE COME ACROSS BIRDMANS PARROTS ONLINE, IF I GET ONE FROM THIS PLACE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SHIPPED BECAUSE ITS SO FAR, HAS ANYONE EVER DEALT THIS BIRDMANS PARROTS? AND NO THERE IS NO ONE THAT I KNOW OF LOCALLY TO DO BUSINESS WITH.

[Pajarita]

Hi and welcome to the forum. I cannot help you on this Birdman's Parrots place as I don't buy babies (all my birds are adoption, rehomes or rescues) but any large breeding facility -as this one is- cannot produce healthy and well-socialized babies. Raising babies the right way takes A LOT of time and A LOT of work and no place that deals with numbers can do it. It's a simple as that. You can get a baby from them but that baby will not grow up well-adjusted (they usually gavage-feed and wean way too early). And any facility that ships babies is, most definitely, ran by somebody who does NOT care about them at all because there is NOTHING more traumatic for a baby parrot than to be separated from the family it knows and travel in the dark, in a box -think panic, confusion and high stress! Studies show us that babies that are stressed out never outgrow their problems and remain high-strung for the rest of their lives so think very carefully about this before you make a decision.

Personally, I see no reason whatsoever to buy a baby. It's MUCH safer and kinder to adopt an adult - bird lovers do not buy babies because doing this contributes to the huge overpopulation problem instead of helping it solve it. And it's safer because most parrots die before they are two years old so the ones that 'make it' and the healthy ones PLUS what you see is what you get with an adult while, with a baby, it's nothing but a lottery. And it is not true that you need to get a baby for the bird to bond with you and THAT I can attest to 100% because my birds love me to pieces - even the parent-raised, high-strung GCC that was a little plucked maniac when she first came is coming around (she is perching on my arm and preening it after scaring off the bird that was there before).

[Tinalee]

the only place near me to adopt ais 3 hours awy, and they will not let me since i am so far away.. it doesn't have to be a baby i just don't know where else to adopt or recue from in nc

[Pajarita]

Check Craigslist, Petfinder and Rescueme.com! There are always posts for parrots there - you might not find one right away but, if you are patient and keep on looking, several will show up. And, do talk to the rescue that is two hours away IN PERSON (this makes a big difference to rescuers because they see that you are committed -I used to do full time rescue). They might know a rescue that is closer to you, or they might be flexible and accept pictures/videos of your home (maybe taken by another rescue, even if it's a dog and cat one) or they might find a volunteer that is willing to travel (offer to pay for gas and tolls). And look in other cities, as long as you are willing to travel, you will find one. I once drove over 8 hours each way just to pick a sick rescue that needed a home AND I flew from NJ to California to pick up another one. When there's a will, there is a way!