Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum and was struggling to find many opinions through Google, so thought I would do a post in here.
I'm an experienced parrot owner, I've hand reared umbrella cockatoos and African greys, as well as rehabilitated & re homes abused birds such as eclectus.
I live in Africa now and moved to Tanzania a couple of years ago.
My cockatoo sadly died about 3 years ago, she was a rescued baby and was never 100% her whole life, but we had a few amazing years with her, and my other African grey stayed with family back home.
Now that I'm going to be staying in Tanzania long term, I have decided I need to fill the parrot shaped hole in my life and decided to search for a baby CAG.
There aren't really any proper breeders out here, the first language isn't English, so this isn't an easy task.
A local friend managed to find me a breeder who has three 12 week old babies, sounds great I thought. Previously my two birds came to me at 6 weeks which was great as I really think it helped us bond, but as the new bird would be traveling I thought 12 weeks would be about right.
It all sounds great, except today I found out that the birds have come direct from the Congo. They weren't bred here.
This obviously has caused me to question quite a bit, apparently all the parrots sold here are from the Congo. What would be your feelings on this?
Thank you in advance!
I'm new to the forum and was struggling to find many opinions through Google, so thought I would do a post in here.
I'm an experienced parrot owner, I've hand reared umbrella cockatoos and African greys, as well as rehabilitated & re homes abused birds such as eclectus.
I live in Africa now and moved to Tanzania a couple of years ago.
My cockatoo sadly died about 3 years ago, she was a rescued baby and was never 100% her whole life, but we had a few amazing years with her, and my other African grey stayed with family back home.
Now that I'm going to be staying in Tanzania long term, I have decided I need to fill the parrot shaped hole in my life and decided to search for a baby CAG.
There aren't really any proper breeders out here, the first language isn't English, so this isn't an easy task.
A local friend managed to find me a breeder who has three 12 week old babies, sounds great I thought. Previously my two birds came to me at 6 weeks which was great as I really think it helped us bond, but as the new bird would be traveling I thought 12 weeks would be about right.
It all sounds great, except today I found out that the birds have come direct from the Congo. They weren't bred here.
This obviously has caused me to question quite a bit, apparently all the parrots sold here are from the Congo. What would be your feelings on this?
Thank you in advance!