About 5 years ago Debra and I began a journey...a year later we bought a baby parrot as a pet. We didn't handfeed it to save money as some people are want to do. Rather, we just wanted a bird as a pet and felt comfortable that with the help of a wonderful new friend, Grace, that we could manage to stay ahead of the learning curve and successfully raise the bird to maturity.

Little did we know that our little male Solomon Island Eclectus, Kiwi, would lead us down a path that has had so many pleasant twists and turns. Kiwi now heads a flock of 5 pet parrots including Prophet, a Military Macaw, Olivia the Congo African Grey, an intelligent and amusing, chubby ball of skin that used to be feathers. More on Olivia in a later post. Oh yes, back to the flock...Odi, an adopted male Congo who loves attention but rarely allows anyone to hold him. And little Surgio the cockatiel that is the house mascot.

All of these guys have latched onto us for one reason or another as we handraised and sold so many weaned babies to happy owners around the country. Which is the purpose of this "blog". We now have so many friends that we have made and shared our babies with that it is becoming difficult to keep in touch. They have learned from us, we have learned from them. Hopefully this blog will provide a quiet place to share the many stories we have heard and the stories yet to be told.

More later....Craig

- posted by J-Birds @ 8:36 PM |