Jillie is so beautiful. She hadn't gotten her bath yet and has her breakfast on her beak but she is still my stunning diva girl!
In case anyone is wondering Gidget my Red Sided gal is at my breeder friends house. She is still mine but we are trying to get her better with the whole flock thing. My friend has 12 foot flights for her eclectus! She would go after Jillie and Jillie maybe smaller but she takes guff from NO ONE! I was really worried someone was going to get hurt. So while I was really sick (much better now) she came and got her for me. The other factor is Gidget's mom is owned by my friend and is really up to retirement age from breeding. She is great though once her pairs retire they still live out their lives with her with no expectations she has a 40 yr old pair of macaws that haven't laid in years and are still provided the best loving care.
I am now at odds with what to do. At one time I really was excited to set up pairs and co-parent with them, owning our home and my husband no longer moving us for his work got me thinking of breeding again. I have seen eclectus pairs that will lovingly allow this and the babies are so well adjusted but frankly I don't know if it's just this surrounding area but I have seen so many eclectus that were not being properly cared for that I have lost all desire to breed. It would truly break my heart to find out one of my babies ended up in situations like I have heard of around here.
It was mentioned in Stephen's post about Jolly how hard it must be for me to hand raise a baby and let it go but that is what I did for many years with many types of parrots. While it is never easy to see them go I knew that Jolly would continue to receive the same kind of love and care he got from me. To be honest I know Stephen thought I was bias about how wonderful Jolly was but I take great pride in raising awesome, social healthy babies and I knew once he had him a while he would see I wasn't actually bias. Unfortunately though I am finding that there are just not a ton of great homes out there for eclectus and I don't want to further over burden the world with more babies just because I would love to raise them. So I am a little sad over this but feel in my heart it is the right decision.
If Jillie starts egg laying I will replace them with duds, let her sit, but no babies.
Here she is...Miss Universe herself!
In case anyone is wondering Gidget my Red Sided gal is at my breeder friends house. She is still mine but we are trying to get her better with the whole flock thing. My friend has 12 foot flights for her eclectus! She would go after Jillie and Jillie maybe smaller but she takes guff from NO ONE! I was really worried someone was going to get hurt. So while I was really sick (much better now) she came and got her for me. The other factor is Gidget's mom is owned by my friend and is really up to retirement age from breeding. She is great though once her pairs retire they still live out their lives with her with no expectations she has a 40 yr old pair of macaws that haven't laid in years and are still provided the best loving care.
I am now at odds with what to do. At one time I really was excited to set up pairs and co-parent with them, owning our home and my husband no longer moving us for his work got me thinking of breeding again. I have seen eclectus pairs that will lovingly allow this and the babies are so well adjusted but frankly I don't know if it's just this surrounding area but I have seen so many eclectus that were not being properly cared for that I have lost all desire to breed. It would truly break my heart to find out one of my babies ended up in situations like I have heard of around here.
It was mentioned in Stephen's post about Jolly how hard it must be for me to hand raise a baby and let it go but that is what I did for many years with many types of parrots. While it is never easy to see them go I knew that Jolly would continue to receive the same kind of love and care he got from me. To be honest I know Stephen thought I was bias about how wonderful Jolly was but I take great pride in raising awesome, social healthy babies and I knew once he had him a while he would see I wasn't actually bias.
Unfortunately though I am finding that there are just not a ton of great homes out there for eclectus and I don't want to further over burden the world with more babies just because I would love to raise them. So I am a little sad over this but feel in my heart it is the right decision.If Jillie starts egg laying I will replace them with duds, let her sit, but no babies.
Here she is...Miss Universe herself!
