by Pajarita » Fri Sep 20, 2019 9:27 am
Great info, Michael! Thank you for posting it. Although I do not agree with No. 8 at all ('leftover' birds? - how unkind and not true at all *), I concur 100% with all the other ones.
* Grays and conures do NOT breed all year round. The premise is not only incorrect, it's completely unscientific as there are no animals that breed all year round - the species would become extinct, if they did as birds need to recover from the depletion that breeding creates during the resting season. But, unfortunately for the birds and their owners, there are breeders that do breed them all year round -sometimes from greed, sometimes from ignorance- so, although an off-season baby is usually never as healthy as a baby born during the right season, it doesn't mean they are 'leftovers'. Furthermore, the ones that were born on the right season but not bought when still babies do not necessarily have any problem with them and they still deserve a good home. The offer is so large right now that every Tom, Dick and Harry are breeding them that we are going to find more and more birds that were not placed in their forever home as babies...