I got into them because I lived in town and couldn't have chickens like I did as a kid. I met a lot of great people and had a collection and set-up at Bird Marts that garnered some recognition from breeders in other states which was pretty cool. Fast forward about five years and a romantic relationship ended and I get really, really depressed and I struggled to take care of myself, much less hundreds of birds that depended on me. It was all too much. Plus a lot of my older friends were retiring from the breeding community and some others moved out of state. Combine that with a really bad rat problem (like losing $1600 in one night) I decided to sell all of them off. I got a few at the new house and a rat snake managed to get into the room because the door to the garage doesn't fit and this landlord is also a POS. lol So I have to get that fixed. I'd also like to get a way of cooling and heating the room that is more reliable than me opening windows and running space heaters. So at the moment all I have is the outside birds.