goosegirl
Meeting neighbors
Not sure is this is in the right section, or has been touched on before, but I am very curious on how members feel about this practice.
I live in Southern California and it seems to be a widespread practice of "breeders" buying unweaned babies locally or shipping them in, and then they hand feed and sell the babies as their own.
I have come across these "breeders" and some are forthcoming and admit to it, and say they only buy from reputable breeders who have been established for 15+ years. While others just pretend they don't while it's blatantly obvious they do and their babies look in poor condition.
This just rubs me the wrong way and I feel like no matter how reputable you claim the breeder is that sold the unweaned babies to them, you just don't know what conditions they are really coming from. Not to mention I don't agree with unweaned babies being shipped. Bird's are fragile, and babies even more so.
How do you guys feel about this? Would you still buy from the "breeder", and do their claims of only working with reputable breeders mean anything?
I live in Southern California and it seems to be a widespread practice of "breeders" buying unweaned babies locally or shipping them in, and then they hand feed and sell the babies as their own.
I have come across these "breeders" and some are forthcoming and admit to it, and say they only buy from reputable breeders who have been established for 15+ years. While others just pretend they don't while it's blatantly obvious they do and their babies look in poor condition.
This just rubs me the wrong way and I feel like no matter how reputable you claim the breeder is that sold the unweaned babies to them, you just don't know what conditions they are really coming from. Not to mention I don't agree with unweaned babies being shipped. Bird's are fragile, and babies even more so.
How do you guys feel about this? Would you still buy from the "breeder", and do their claims of only working with reputable breeders mean anything?