Anyone know of ANY Cherry Headed Conure Breeders located ANYWHERE in the USA??

Are there any reputable Cherry Headed Conure Breeders anywhere in the USA???

Hello, my name is Elisha Hilleary & I just lost my 18-year-old male Cherry Headed Conure, Hermie on Mon & have been looking all over the USA for a Cherry Headed Conure Breeder so I can get myself another one to cherish. I'm having ZERO LUCK so far in my search.:17::17: Does anyone know of any reputable Cherry Headed Conure Breeders at all anywhere in the USA??:06::06: I'm wanting to get myself another DNA sexed male Cherry Headed Conure for a pet as I'm absolutely devastated about losing my Hermie. I live in Missouri but I'm willing to go through a reputable breeder located anywhere within the USA.

Any help at all will be very much appreciated!! Thank you. Elisha Hilleary

Hello. Does anyone on here know of any reputable Cherry Headed Conure breeders located anywhere in the USA??:27::27: I just lost my 18-year-old male Cherry Headed Conure, Hermie on Mon & now I'm trying to find myself another DNA sexed male Cherry Headed Conure for a pet to cherish. I'm having NO LUCK so far in my search though I'm hoping someone on here knows a reputable breeder to send me too. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks, Elisha Hilleary

ehilleary said:

Hello. Does anyone on here know of any reputable Cherry Headed Conure breeders located anywhere in the USA??:27::27: I just lost my 18-year-old male Cherry Headed Conure, Hermie on Mon & now I'm trying to find myself another DNA sexed male Cherry Headed Conure for a pet to cherish. I'm having NO LUCK so far in my search though I'm hoping someone on here knows a reputable breeder to send me too. Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks, Elisha Hilleary

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You are likely going to have search long and hard to find one of these Parrots. Over the last fifteen years there has been a very steady decline in the number of Breeders of the smaller Parrots with only the most popular small parrot Breeders still in business.

This is being driven by several factors with the largest one is a total lack of anything close to looking like a breakeven. Even the larger Parrot Breeders are moving to only the most popular large Parrots. Diversity is going away!

That's something I find baffling. With many smaller birds, the cage often costs more than the bird does. I've already spent seven hundred dollars on my quaker's vet bills and expect at least a few hundred more. Buying a parrot is often the least expensive part of having a bird; why won't the market support more than a few hundred dollars for smaller birds?

As for the question: this aviary near me breeds cherry-heads though they don't have any now. I can't vouch for them personally but they get good reviews.

gavagai said:

That's something I find baffling. With many smaller birds, the cage often costs more than the bird does. I've already spent seven hundred dollars on my quaker's vet bills and expect at least a few hundred more. Buying a parrot is often the least expensive part of having a bird; why won't the market support more than a few hundred dollars for smaller birds?

As for the question: this aviary near me breeds cherry-heads though they don't have any now. I can't vouch for them personally but they get good reviews.

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I cannot define why the market is reacting the ways it does, but to say that it is and the result in far fewer smaller Parrot /bird Breeders! What I am told is that the market will only bare the price of todays market. Larger Parrots can pull a larger price point and therefore a better return. Note, the shift in that market in convincing buyers to purchase unweaned Parrots as a tool to reduce their costs! Sad statement, but there it is!

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ehilleary said:

Hello, my name is Elisha Hilleary & I just lost my 18-year-old male Cherry Headed Conure, Hermie on Mon & have been looking all over the USA for a Cherry Headed Conure Breeder so I can get myself another one to cherish. I'm having ZERO LUCK so far in my search.:17::17: Does anyone know of any reputable Cherry Headed Conure Breeders at all anywhere in the USA??:06::06: I'm wanting to get myself another DNA sexed male Cherry Headed Conure for a pet as I'm absolutely devastated about losing my Hermie. I live in Missouri but I'm willing to go through a reputable breeder located anywhere within the USA.

Any help at all will be very much appreciated!! Thank you. Elisha Hilleary

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I know absolutely zero about this breeder but it looks like they have a baby cherry head that is available (I think it is too young right now) for 490.00

https://thebestbird.com/collections/waiting-list-1

PickleMeDickles said:

I know absolutely zero about this breeder but it looks like they have a baby cherry head that is available (I think it is too young right now) for 490.00

https://thebestbird.com/collections/waiting-list-1

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Nice find! Shows sold, their Facebook page hasn't been updated in almost a year! Would be interesting, that address is about 30 miles from here, I drive by there twice a week!
http://www.manta.com/cmap/mvvdq9d/best-birds-aviary

PickleMeDickles said:

I know absolutely zero about this breeder but it looks like they have a baby cherry head that is available (I think it is too young right now) for 490.00

https://thebestbird.com/collections/waiting-list-1

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I just spoke to the owner, these folks are alive and well! There are issues with the website being out of date, that he has no control of at the moment! What you will need to do is to call the phone number that is listed, he does answer the phone and he will tell you what he has available.

Ana's Parrots just listed a female today. I follow her on Facebook but she also has a website I believe.

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Ana's Parrots just listed a female today. I follow her on Facebook but she also has a website I believe.

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I follow a few facebook groups she is in, it just seems like she pours out bird after bird after bird. She's definitely a hgh volume breeder. I've never talked to her but some of her birds have been known to be sick when owners get them, lots of birds means lots of potential viruses going around.

Good to know! I don't know anything about her other than I follow her on fb. Sad To hear this though.

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Laylatoo said:

Ana's Parrots just listed a female today. I follow her on Facebook but she also has a website I believe.

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I follow a few facebook groups she is in, it just seems like she pours out bird after bird after bird. She's definitely a hgh volume breeder. I've never talked to her but some of her birds have been known to be sick when owners get them, lots of birds means lots of potential viruses going around.

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This is an old post, but quite troubling!
http://www.parrotforums.com/eclectus/52774-female-died-polyoma-virus.html

Wow! Thanks for the heads up! Makes me feel very fortunate I have a local small scale awesome breeder that I've been able to purchase from.

Thanks for the info. I just called and talked to them and unfortunately, they no longer breed Cherry Headed Conures. The guy did tell me to keep checking in May, June, & July birdbreeders.com because he said there will be some for sale on there but not quite yet because it's not the time for them to have babies. I want to get myself another one so bad so I'll be checking from now till July I guess. In the meantime, if you hear of anyone selling Cherry Headed Conures please keep me in mind. Thanks again for the info and help!

As for the question: this aviary near me breeds cherry-heads though they don't have any now. I can't vouch for them personally but they get good reviews.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the info! I just called JC's Aviary and spoke with Joe and I'm on his waiting list for a Cherry Headed Conure baby if he gets any this May, June, or July. He told me they don't get Cherry Headed babies every year but they may this year. FINGERS CROSSED!! Thanks for the help!!!

Awesome! I follow JC Aviary on Instagram, and only wish I lived closer. Their babies look healthy and happy.

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I live in State College, PA, about 3 hours from Ana...There are actually 2 women involved in this Bird Mill, that's what it is, a BIRD MILL! Ana is in Scranton-Wilkes Barre area, and her "partner", Lilly, is in Hazelton. I called Ana about a year ago, when I first started looking for my Senegal parrot. I wanted a baby that was hand-raised, and Ana had advertised one on her Facebook page. So I called her and she said I had to call her partner, Lilly, in Hazelton (about 2+ hours from me) because she had some baby Senegals. OK, so I called Lilly, left a message, and she called me back and told me that I had to set up a day and time to meet her at her "shop", that they don't just have an open shop...Her hours were just bizarre, and it just didn't feel right. These two women sell literally hundreds of birds every month, and breed literally EVERY SPECIES OF DOMESTIC BIRD IMAGINABLE! I'm not exaggerating at all, they breed every kind of pet bird you could think of, from different species of canaries and finches to every type of parakeet imaginable to every Poicephalus, Pionus, Cockatoo, Macaw, African Grays, every type of Conure, Quakers, Ringnecks, doves, pigeons, EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING YOU COULD WANT. So off I did to do some research. It got very sad from there on.

I spoke to dozens of people that had purchased birds from these two women, and the problem is that most of there business is done over the phone or the internet. People call them or get on their website, find the baby bird that they want, buy it, pay WAY OVER AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE BIRD online or over the phone, pay between $125-$200 for same day air shipping, and done. So most people never meet either woman, never see their facilities (this is what's sad), they see the photos of the baby birds or the ex-breeders they're selling that they post on their Facebook pages and their websites that seem to be taken in their own homes, and they just go along with it. The truth is was very startling to me and made me sick.

There aren't a lot of bird breeders in Pennsylvania, and I have an advantage being smack dab right in the center of the state, I can drive to any town or city in PA in less than 4 hours. I had to drive an hour and a half to Harrisburg to get my hand-raised cockatiel, so that's a good example of how sparse bird breeders are here in PA. But these two women, Ana and Lilly up in the Northeast corner of PA had every type of bird imaginable. I found an ad for an older woman selling 10 young English budgies, under a year old, in a huge flight cage with tons of supplies and equipment for under $300. The birds were beautiful! The woman lived in Altoona (35 minutes from me) and was an awesome lady that had purchased these birds as babies from a private breeder in Johnstown for her 14 year old niece, they were to be her 4H breeding project. This woman invested well over $1,000 in the bird's, the cage, brooders, etc. and was letting the birds stay at her home but her niece had agreed to come over twice a day to care for them until they were old enough to breed. This woman was retired and volunteered at the Humane Society, had had pet birds her entire life, and was really trying to help her niece out. Well the niece got a boyfriend and no longer wanted to do 4H! So she advertised the birds with all of the equipment, food, breeding supplies, everything for $300 to a good, experienced home only. I was still breeding budgies at the time, and I thought at worst they could live in my indoor aviary happily. We started talking and we have a mutual friend, small world stuff. She then told me she'd had them up for sale for 3 months because she was not getting people with any bird experience responding to her as, and she wanted the birds to go to only the best of homes. She drove the birds, cage, all of their stuff to my home 3 days later in her little hatchback even though I offered to drive my truck over to her. She wanted to see where her birds were going. She immediately approved, as did I, and we talked in my living room for hours. Turns out that Ana and Lilly both had called her about buying the birds (she knew they just wanted the cage and equipment for nothing). Well just like with me she drove the birds and all their stuff up to Scranton at her insistence and against Ana and Lilly's. She said their "shop" or "breeding facility" is nothing but a warehouse holding a massive bird mill. And that's only one of two locations. I won't go in to what it looked like but picture the worst bird mill you've ever seen and make it 10 times as large. That's Ana's Parrots in Scranton and Lilly's Parrots in Hazelton. She took her birds home, kept them for another 2 months until I called her, and she very willingly and thankfully gave them and all of the cages, equipment, food, etc. to me for free because I was finally a good home for her birds.


"Dance like nobody's watching..."

No worries, I will not be getting a bird from Ana's Parrots,Lilly's Parrots, or Heaven Parrot Aviary. I want a Cherry Headed Conure real bad, but I don't want to support a bird mill or any unreputable breeder that's for sure! Thanks for the info!! I think it's great you are telling people about these bad places so people stop buying birds from them.