Sad

I know a man who had more money than sense and bought a significant number of breeding birds many years ago. He kept them at his farm in the country in a commercial greenhouse. One day the workers forgot to turn on the ventillators and over 100 parrots perished.

I visited his place three years ago and he had four pairs of Blue and Gold Macaws in black wrought iron Mexican cages that were three feet in diameter and four feet high. All of the birds were related and two pair were laying eggs. He might have had males with males and females with females. He also had several other birds, some of which have since died.

I convinced his caretaker to offer them vegetables and fruit in addition to the all seed diet he had them on. It's been three years and I still think of the sad situation often. Now that we have the room I'm tempted to approach him again about letting us have them to provide them with a decent life. It will cost us $600 a pair for cages and $100 a year per pair for food. Last time I mentioned it, he wanted to sell them to us. Sick man.
- posted by J-Birds @ 8:19 PM |