We miss our birds, but  the decision to sell  was made  easier  since most of them went to a dear friend 
and wonderful breeder and I know they will be in very good  hands.

Our Blue Crown Conures,  Sun Conures, Nandays and Quakers all went to Tim Robertson in Dumas Texas. 
If you are interested in purchasing  babies from our  former breeders please contact Tim  or  visit him at 
his site at  The Hatching Post Aviary.
 

Our Senegals went to a wonderful aviary called   Lilla Hills Aviary  and you can  contact the  owner
Sally  Lynch,  to get information on purchasing a senegal.

The decision to sell was prompted  by several facts, one of them,  we are getting older  and  are wanting 
to cut back some on our daily work load. It's a full time  job, 7 days a week, as we had a total of 75 pair. 
With all the different species of conures,  Quakers and Senegals  we had babies all year round which meant never 
ending hand feeding ( my job), which is very time consuming  and  the  daily taking care of  that many breeders,
and the up keep  on the aviary ( Deryl's job)  which is also  very time consuming. 

The 2nd fact was, that we live on the Texas coast and  have to evacuate at times for a hurricane.
We are very fortunate to own a motor home,  so we have a way to transport  that many birds, but  it  is a very
stressful situation for the birds ( and us:>)  to catch that many birds,  put them into small  evacuation cages, 
making sure to have all the cages marked as to which large cages they came from as one wants to keep  records on 
the  breeders etc.  It is also  very  time consuming, so you  cannot wait to see if you actually have to evacuate or
not, if a storm is coming our way  we have to get prepared early  to be ready to leave,  so it is an ongoing problem.

So far we had to do this 2 times, both times were extremely lucky  and did not have to leave  Rockport after all as
the hurricane  turned at the last moment and were able to put the  birds  back into the aviary the next day, 
but as you can imagine it is no fun for either us or the birds.

This was one of the main reasons  to not only  cut back on  birds but also  to cut back on all the  larger
conure species, Quakers and Senegals  and  just raise Green cheek Conures and  keep it at about 20 pair or below.

The advantage to  this  is the following:
1. They all breed at the same time  and by June  most of them will be weaned  and I do not have to  hand feed  all year round
2. If we do have to evacuate it is a lot less work to catch  20  pair, mark the cages and take care of them for a few days
 living in a motorhome than  evacuating with 75 pair  in all sizes.

Its one of those bittersweet decisions,   we do not have near the daily work load as before, but miss not having  other species
and it is hard to  say which one of them we  liked most,  basically we fell in love with all the conure species and Quakers and Senegals.