Two Shockingly Different Quakers

[Jazzysmama]

OMG! She's almost the same weight as Koopa!

She is tiny, the same weight as jazzy.

 

[Jazzysmama]

Sounds like a yellow faced Quaker. Here's a YF baby next to a regular.

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And 60 GRAMS?! Holy moly. My quaker was 135-140g (I am not small either and that is my hand below). I didn't know it was possible for them to be that small.

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That looks like him too, he is soooo gorgeous and so fat! Yeah, Breeze has other abnormalities too. Her parents were fed seed diets, lived on cedar chips and were bred constantly, multiple times a year, so the owner could make extra money. Her eyes are tiny and she has abnormal toenails. They don't grow, are less than 1/8 inch long. She also has a nail that grows backwards straight up in the air, the opposite direction. Makes me wonder what the condition of her internal organs are. NOt sure if she is imbred or poor condition due to too much poor breeding and poor health of the parents.

 

[Jazzysmama]

I'm sort of an enabler, I guess. Let me know if I can help, or you need me to shut up

You're too funny. If Breeze didn't require so many trips to the vet I'd be calling them and searching for an AA train.

 

[wonderb]

That looks like him too, he is soooo gorgeous and so fat! Yeah, Breeze has other abnormalities too. Her parents were fed seed diets, lived on cedar chips and were bred constantly, multiple times a year, so the owner could make extra money. Her eyes are tiny and she has abnormal toenails. They don't grow, are less than 1/8 inch long. She also has a nail that grows backwards straight up in the air, the opposite direction. Makes me wonder what the condition of her internal organs are. NOt sure if she is imbred or poor condition due to too much poor breeding and poor health of the parents.

Not fat, big boned. She's a large subspecies I guess, and was born in 99 I think so before quakers were overbred. That's so sad about Breeze. Some people should really not be breeders.

 

[Jazzysmama]

Not fat, big boned. She's a large subspecies I guess, and was born in 99 I think so before quakers were overbred. That's so sad about Breeze. Some people should really not be breeders.

Yes it is sad, Breeze pays the price for a dirty basement breeder. IF just anyone had adopted her, she'd probably be dead now cause many don't take their birds to a vet. I love her regardless, she's my shining star, my life, my world.

 

[65sunnyday]

It's amazing, how something so amazing as Breeze, with her remarkable capacity for language, could have come from such careless & awful beginnings.


Ellen, your pics of the sleeping babies & the baby laying in the hand are CUTE!

 

[Peacelovepets]

This may have been mention I have a pallid green and here's what color his feathers are:

 

[Ming-Ming]

Kyoko as a baby had a lot of yellow too, but as she grew up she turned more of a creamy colour.

 

[Ming-Ming]

Kyo now...

 

[WendyBird]

Love the yellow-faced quakers, they are far and away my favorite color mutation. Which is funny since they're apparently just a by product of yellow breeding based on cinnamon quakers, probably why they are so inexpensive compared to the other mutations. They're that not quite the right color bird before they get to yellow but after they stop looking like cinnamon/pallids.