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Christmas Time

Written by George Saturday, 24 December 2011 11:04

It is that wonderful time of the year! Christmas is here and we are all enjoying the joy and happiness that this time brings to all of us. We hope you are all able to enjoy and cherish this time of the year with your family, friends and your pets including your feathered friends. Hope Santa brings them some good nuts and toys!!!!!

Fall News - from the aviary

Written by George Sunday, 30 October 2011 16:06

It is late October and the leaves have finished their fall coloration and are now on their way down in preparation for the upcoming winter. We are very fortunate to have avoided the major early snow storm yesterday that came through the north east. We are an not complaining nor we are under any illusion about us and the fact that we will get plenty this year as usual. The birds the aviary are all doing wonderful - The babies are growing up quick and it is tough to keep up with them. Of the three Sun Conure babies, two are going home next weekend and the new parents are all excited to get their babies home.

Zazu - they African Grey Congo went home with Monica and Kurt this week where they are going to finish hand feeding him. We are still not sure about one of his legs, but regardless of that, he is in a very loving and caring environment. They made the long trip (5+ hrs) to get him and we are so thankful as we know he is in safe hands. Thank You Kurt and Monica.

African Grey Congo Babies

Written by George Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:56

We seem to be in some sort of strange late season baby boom here at our aviary and we are not complaining one bit just because all our birdies totally forgot to go to nest this spring..lol. So we now have our first clutch of African Grey Congo Babies - they are from Jake and Molly and so far they are taken wonderful care of the two babies and it has been solid 2 weeks. Jodie will be pulling these babies to hand-feed any day now. I think she wants to co-ordinate with the eggs that are hatching in the incubator from our Military Macaws. Talking about them - they do not know how to feed the babies (trust us, we tried!) - so we pull them and they go back to nest. Last year they did it 2 times (3 clutches for the year) before we literally locked the box so she would not be able to go back in. This time we are trying a different approach. So after we pulled this clutch of 3 eggs last week (all good!) we gave couple of eggs from our B&G's which were not fertile so that she can complete her cycle and then sit some more. We are hoping that this will prevent her from going back into the egg laying mode soon. Honestly, we would love for her to stop with 2 clutches every year as all this egg laying and incubating is very physically demanding on both the male and female.

In other news from the aviary - we talked about the first clutch of eggs from our own babies that were paired up. We candled them and found that they were not any good. Mama is still sitting on the eggs, which is a good practice for when they get the act right :). Other than that we have to get ready for the weather to turn cold, which I am not looking forward to and I am sure Jodie is not either. We still have some babies left for sale - Macaws (Military), Grey (Congo) and Conures (Suns) are all available. So let us know if you are interested in any one of these wonderful babies.

News from our Aviary

Written by George Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:23

Pretty exciting news from out Aviary - at least for us. About 2 years ago (2009) we had two pairs of sun conures and we decided to keep babies from these for our future breeding program. So after a lot of thought and DNA testing and everything we put two babies together. They were almost same age, and they grew up together. And after 2 years, they have their first clutch of eggs. We are not hoping to have babies, as we are sure they are not sure what they are doing. The male might not be mature enough to have babies yet but still it is pretty exciting when the babies we hand raised have grown up and started laying eggs. Even though they are hand raised, we have left them alone for the last year and half - so they are a hand shy but by no means they are vicious and attacking. They are still our babies and will continue to be our babies even after they have babies of their own.

In some other news from the Aviary, we have B&G's sitting on eggs, which we hope are good and fertile this time. Then we have our Military's, also sitting on 3 eggs - for this pair we just let them sit and do not check until it is time to pull the eggs to the incubator. We also have a new baby African Grey Congo - hatched this morning. Yay!!!