We have named our new girl "Freedom" something we find very fitting for this girl who is finally for the first time in her life free from the hell she had called home for an unknown amount of years.
Freedom was born into the life of a breeder bird. She spent her days in a 2x2x2 metal breeder cage. Next to 90 other cages just like hers with birds with stories just as sad as hers. Though Freedom's story is especially sad as she spent her days in darkness. She is 100% blind in her Left eye and we estimate 70% blind in her Right. Sometime during her life she sustained a broken wing [she cant move it], toes and damage to her beak- no vet care was provided.
I found Freedom in a cage at Birdmart lined up with numerous other birds for sale. She was having a very hard time navigating her small cage falling about as her cage mates shoved her around. The breeder claim she was "100% healthy. She is a perfect bird; just amazing. You should see her she flys just like a normal bird all around the room. She is a red factor very expensive." It was hard not to laugh in his face... 100% healthy?? Has he even looked at her? Flying around an aviary? You have got to be kidding she can't even navigate her cage not to mention the one wing is clearly damaged. Red Factor? That's most likely caused by poor nutrition, feather plucking and hopefully not disease.
I left Birdmart without her... but 5 days later I drove to his home and picked her up. I negotiated her fee down and tonight will be her first night in a home- Safe.
In the next few weeks she will feel water on her feathers when she receives a bath for the first time in her life.
She will receive vet care for the first time and love and attention for the first time.
Freedom is Finally Home
Freedom was born into the life of a breeder bird. She spent her days in a 2x2x2 metal breeder cage. Next to 90 other cages just like hers with birds with stories just as sad as hers. Though Freedom's story is especially sad as she spent her days in darkness. She is 100% blind in her Left eye and we estimate 70% blind in her Right. Sometime during her life she sustained a broken wing [she cant move it], toes and damage to her beak- no vet care was provided.
I found Freedom in a cage at Birdmart lined up with numerous other birds for sale. She was having a very hard time navigating her small cage falling about as her cage mates shoved her around. The breeder claim she was "100% healthy. She is a perfect bird; just amazing. You should see her she flys just like a normal bird all around the room. She is a red factor very expensive." It was hard not to laugh in his face... 100% healthy?? Has he even looked at her? Flying around an aviary? You have got to be kidding she can't even navigate her cage not to mention the one wing is clearly damaged. Red Factor? That's most likely caused by poor nutrition, feather plucking and hopefully not disease.
I left Birdmart without her... but 5 days later I drove to his home and picked her up. I negotiated her fee down and tonight will be her first night in a home- Safe.
In the next few weeks she will feel water on her feathers when she receives a bath for the first time in her life.
She will receive vet care for the first time and love and attention for the first time.
Freedom is Finally Home
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That's why her water is in the King's locking bowl.
