Hello everyone! We met with the agent on Friday just to discuss the whole process but we've still got little jobs to do before we are all ready to go. It's a new company that's been set up with much lower commission fees (a flat $5,000 success fee on top of the $2,500 for marketing as opposed to $27,000 - $38,000 other agencies here would charge us). That's because there is one agent looking after an area - he's not competing against anyone else within his company for listings (unlike all the rest). The people that set it up wanted a much fairer system for those selling their properties and they've invested a lot of research and money into setting it up. Hopefully they'll be successful and do well.
Glad the meeting went well Michelle. And love the Mum and baby photo - OEGBs are such good mothers.
If you handled the babies daily they should trust you even if the parents don't. Wait until they are about 10 days old before starting this. Just a few minutes of handling should make them trusting, then as soon as they are weaned take them away from the parents, spend lots of time with them (but keep an eye on them that they are eating well for themselves - sometimes they can regress).
Some people find they end up with friendlier birds using the 'co-parenting' technique than hand rearing where you give the chicks a meal or two each day but leave them with their parents for the majority of the time.
Hope you are feeling better!
Thanks for the info, that's helpful! I might not breed them anymore, I might just get 2 babies, idk.
And thanks! I am with that except now I think I'm getting sick, sore throat
