A Brief
History
Sydney from Bird Crazy Bird Store, Albuquerque, NM
I started with a
pair of Zebra Finches, Inkin and Blinkin.
At
the time I was already enchanted by lovebirds but was afraid of
their size - imagine that! Ha! We moved cross-country with the
finches. They took it all in stride. One pair lead to 4 pair
eventually (not by breeding but by buying more pairs).
I decided I was ready for a
"larger" bird and bought a handfed pearl cockatiel named
Sydney. She was a pretty and sweet little bird. Then in 1993, I
bought my first pair of lovebirds, Emerald and Sapphire. They
were medium dark Dutch blue Peach-Faced Lovebirds. The place I
bought them from said they would remain tame
as a pair (I didn't know any better at the time). This was the
far from the truth! They never tamed even though I worked with
them daily for 4 months. I learned the hard truth that lovebirds
if given a choice will choose a bird over you as a friend.
When they had their first clutch I realized why I was doing this. It was a delight hand raising their babies! They are such sweet spunky birds when hand raised! That was that. I've been breeding lovebirds since then.
Early 2000, I answered a newspaper ad for a parrotlet and came home with Mindy, a Lucida (subspecies) Pacific Parrotlet female. A month later, I found a breeder of Lucidas and came home with Mork, a male Lucida Pacific Parrotlet. They get along famously! Mork said his first words on Oct 30, 2000! Such sweet little birds!
Right now I breed Peach-Faced
lovebirds and Green Rump Parrotlets.
They are good apartment birds and loving companions.
Follow this link to see some of the animals
that
have spent time in our house!
Since
24 January 2000, you are visitor
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