[LittleGems]

My first bird was a skyblue male budgie named Charlie. When I bought him, I only planned to have the one bird. Within 4 months I had 4 budgies, within 2 years I had over 100 birds. MBS hit me hard and fast LOL

I don't have that many now though, currently my flock is only 11 birds and probably going down to 9 soon (as I think I found a good "retirement home" for the pair of older Linnies I rescued a few months ago), although the number will work its way up again haha

 

[nanay]

Yes, Abby, I'm sure a wild-caught timneh is not an average first bird, but you must remember that I am old, lol.

 

[Abby]

Haha, so it was legal then?

 

[nanay]

Well, of course, it was legal then. That was a long time ago. People were just beginning to breed larger birds in captivity. Most larger birds had been wild caught.

 

[catalinadee]

wow how much do those sell for!?

And nanay that's sad about him having to go but if it was for your childs safety then I don't blame you. But wild caught? Wow!

 

[catalinadee]

And Lisa that sounds just like me. I got a cockatiel, then an aviary, then another cockatiel and now I've got more birds than I can count :lol:

 

[Solace.]

My first bird was a cute little bright yellow Canary! I got her when I was living with my dad (he is actually the one who bought her for me), and I was really young then, I can’t remember her name though, sadly!

She was a great little bird, and gave me a lot of company. She kept me really busy too, especially when it came to getting her back IN her cage after I had let her out for hours after school each day.. it took me awhile to get her back in each day, but I did it, she whizzed around the room so fast.

I didn’t have her for very long.. she broke her leg one day while she was out, I don’t know how, but all I remember is tears streaming down my face when I found her under the lounge and I was yelling at her to wake up. Her leg was sticking out to the side, it is a real horrible image to remember, but I love her, and I will never forget her. I didn’t get another bird (a Cockatiel) until around 8 years later, if I had to guess when I got my Canary, I would have been around 8-9 years old.

 

[catalinadee]

Canaries are great little birds, that so sad as to what happened though

 

[Abby]

Aww, what a sad story....

 

[Apple]

Mine was a budgie @ it grew from there.

 

[catalinadee]

That's cool apple! You've got some awesome birds at the moment though!

 

[Apple]

That's cool apple! You've got some awesome birds at the moment though!

Thanks Daisy, this is what 30yrs of bird ownership looks like.

 

[Apple]

My first bird was a cute little bright yellow Canary! I got her when I was living with my dad (he is actually the one who bought her for me), and I was really young then, I can’t remember her name though, sadly!

She was a great little bird, and gave me a lot of company. She kept me really busy too, especially when it came to getting her back IN her cage after I had let her out for hours after school each day.. it took me awhile to get her back in each day, but I did it, she whizzed around the room so fast.

I didn’t have her for very long.. she broke her leg one day while she was out, I don’t know how, but all I remember is tears streaming down my face when I found her under the lounge and I was yelling at her to wake up. Her leg was sticking out to the side, it is a real horrible image to remember, but I love her, and I will never forget her. I didn’t get another bird (a Cockatiel) until around 8 years later, if I had to guess when I got my Canary, I would have been around 8-9 years old.

That is so very sad....I love Canaries! They are great little birds. I had many, many yrs ago. :hug:

 

[lperry82]

This is just their budgies

I remember you posting that on TC or TB that is a total disgrace having so many birds in one cage just report them every day till they eventually do something.

My first bird which is my first pet is tweety pie my budgie i loved him so much
i was 8 when i got him, he was very tame. I come in from school and called him and he would fly to me and stayed with me all the time :lovehearts:
My grandad was having work done to the house and he made the work men a cup of tea and tweety pie flew out , many of times door had been open and he wouldn't budge.

 

[catalinadee]

That's really sad sounds like such a cute bird though!

And I agree with you on the conditions of that place

 

[nanay]

Daisy,
It was 28 years ago when my ex-husband got the wild-caught timneh. I can't remember what he paid, but I would think it was somewhere between $100 and $200. It is no longer legal to catch birds in other countries and bring them into the states. It is, however, legal to kill or capture feral species. I am told that sometimes when power companies are destroying the nests of feral quakers, people take the babies out of the nests and raise them. This seems better to me than killing them. How much this actually happens, I have no idea.

Around the time my ex-husband and I had the timneh, I knew people who had a wild-caught orange wing amazon and people who had a wild-caught red-lored amazon. Both of those amazons were very sweet and gentle and tame, unlike the timneh, lol.

 

[Abby]

Really? That's so interesting, Nanay. What happened to the Timneh?

 

[catalinadee]

That's pretty interesting although killing the feral birds seems really bad in my opinion

 

[nanay]

Abby,
See post 38 of this thread for information about the timneh.

 

[Abby]

Oh now I remember. I had already read that post. Whoops!