Forgive me for such a personal question, now you are given $60 a week for a bird, as a minor, but how are you planning to make your living when you grow up? Birds will need money spent on them all the time, means you will have to work. In order to get a well payed job, that won’t require 10 hour shifts (in which case you won’t be able to take care of your big too, remember, they need YOU for that long) you need to go to a university, and right there is a problem. Again, I’m sorry for such an upfront question, but you seem to be very sure about your future, and I don’t think many people can be so sure about it at this age. You have indeed done a lot of thinking and research on the birds, which is fantastic, but you didn’t seem to be so clear about how to make it work in relation to your private life. Your animals are the top priority, but they won’t pay your salary, bills, food etc., so you will at some point have to figure that part out. People who dedicate their life to working with animals, almost never make a good living, and in order to make a decent living working with them, you will have to go to school again, which is not easy either, I heard these schools are very competitive, and again, no time for the ‘too part.
Anyway, I, like everyone else here, love the birds, and it will be very sad if another big and difficult to keep bird ends up in a rescue, so forgive me for being so upfront, but I’m doing it for the sake of the birds well-being.