by Navre » Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:03 pm
We are approaching 1000 days since we took in the Weston birds. I don't know exactly how many live birds we found. A bunch went straight to the vet from the breeding facility. They were the ones in the worst shape, and none of them survived. We got 117 birds back to the rescue alive.
In the 1000 days since then, we have adopted out 79 birds. Eighteen more died at the rescue, most during the first few weeks and months. A few have died since being adopted, too. We don't really know the age of any, but we know that they were overbred and poorly cared for.
I adopted one of the birds. His mate went straight to the vet from Weston and didn't make it. He has a deformed sternum, can't fly, and is a skittish today as he ever was.
The 13 birds we have left include 2 pair of Golden Conures(Apollo and Aurora/ Jack and Diane), a pair of Bodines Amazons(Bear and Donna), a pair of slender bill conures (Mishu and Cricket), a yellow shouldered amazon (Pickles), a pair of Vasa parrots (Poe and Lenore), and a pair of Green-cheeked Amazons (Rico and Ruby). Pickles is the only solo guy. One of our volunteers comes in twice a week just to work with him. He is now to the point that he will sit on a perch on his open door and allow her to scratch his head. All the rest are bonded pairs who were kept for breeding. They're not too interested in people.
I think the slender bills could find a home sometime soon, and maybe pickles could, too. I think the rest will be with us for a while. The right situation will present itself, eventually.