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ColtHandorf said:
The pig and quail wind chime are phenomenal.

All of those were mine, yes. I had Gouldians, Owls, Stars, Shaft-tails, Zebras, Painted, Red-billed Fires, Gold-breasted Waxbills, Orange-cheeked Waxbills, Strawberries, Red-cheeked Cordon Bleus, Javas, Societies, Chestnut-breasted Mannikins, Tri-colored Munia, Magpie Mannikins, Black and White Mannikins, Canaries, Bourkes, Scarlet-chested, Turquoisine, and Red-rumped Parakeets, Amethyst Starlings, Diamond, Zebra, and Ground Pygmy Doves. I honestly may have forgotten a species or two in there.
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Amazing! I'm currently on a waiting list for Zebras. I used to own Gouldians.
 
Kiki said:
Excuse me DawgJr... Is this in your house?
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It was an enclosed carport off the kitchen. I have a huge room at the new house the landlord calls "an unfinished apartment" that I have the cages in now. I do have one large aviary in the house that looks like furniture, but it is empty at the moment.
Kiki said:
I was just about to tag you to that post.
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BantyChooks said:
Amazing! I'm currently on a waiting list for Zebras. I used to own Gouldians.
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There are a few species on that list I wouldn't want again. Or at least not waste my time trying to breed them. The waxbills that require live food to feed are a pita and US aviculture is so far behind aviculture in the UK it makes things very hard, or very expensive. I'm still salty about hatching the first Yellow-morph Painted Finch in the states in two decades and the parents tossing the chicks, the Societies weaning them too quick, and then me being unable to handfeed it and it dying. Never got another one out of the parents either.

I did realize if forgot the Parrot finches. I had Red-headed and Blue-faced.
 
ColtHandorf said:
It was an enclosed carport off the kitchen. I have a huge room at the new house the landlord calls "an unfinished apartment" that I have the cages in now. I do have one large aviary in the house that looks like furniture, but it is empty at the moment.


There are a few species on that list I wouldn't want again. Or at least not waste my time trying to breed them. The waxbills that require live food to feed are a pita and US aviculture is so far behind aviculture in the UK it makes things very hard, or very expensive. I'm still salty about hatching the first Yellow-morph Painted Finch in the states in two decades and the parents tossing the chicks, the Societies weaning them too quick, and then me being unable to handfeed it and it dying. Never got another one out of the parents either.

I did realize if forgot the Parrot finches. I had Red-headed and Blue-faced.
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Oh dang. That's some pretty bad luck. Do you still have any of them? I've had budgies my whole life but only recently have I started to get into indoor birds as much as I'm into livestock.
 
BantyChooks said:
Oh dang. That's some pretty bad luck. Do you still have any of them? I've had budgies my whole life but only recently have I started to get into indoor birds as much as I'm into livestock.
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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.
 
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This was my last Gouldian pair. Both males. Unfortunately they weren't in the best of shape when I got them, whoever bred them doesn't seem to have kept the best-run aviary.
 
ColtHandorf said:
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.
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That's awful. So sorry to hear. You had a beautiful collection.
 

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