Aww thank you, I'm glad it was helpful! Sometimes I get worried I'm being too verbose, lol. When I get interested in a topic I start living and breathing it and seramas are my current interest.
It seems like most of us come to this breed with some bad or at least less-than-good experiences. I hadn't really done my research when I got into this breed. I started out just looking for a couple pets and ended up purchasing a local gal's "breeding flock." I was told about how they weren't extreme but fit nicely to type, how she'd showed them all and how they were all type A and blah blah. How she'd gotten them all from out of state because there weren't any good breeders in Oregon. Etc.
Nope! None of that was true. Maybe she showed them at some really local fair or something but definitely not show birds or show breeders. And it turns out that there ARE good breeders in OR, in fact one who's been in the breed really long-term lives just an hour north of me. But that's okay, as you said, live and learn.
They are really nice pets though and I will probably keep at least a couple in the long run and experiment with breeding them to nicer mates to see if I can improve the type from them just because I do like those birds so much. One thing I will say for the breeder who sold them to me, she did a good job picking out pretty colored birds and they were handled and friendly when I received them.
