How to tell if an eclectus breeder is ethical and legit?

ehopie

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Hello! I currently have a delightful 42-year-old b&g macaw and I am looking for a male eclectus. I have spoken with some legitimate breeders, but I am wondering if anyone has heard anything about parrotbesties.com? Their website looks all right, says it's family owned, but the email and text responses I have gotten seem off. I haven't been able to find any information about them online, including at the Oklahoma Secretary of State. Just looking for any information out there. Thank you!


Emily
 

Scott

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Welcome Emily, good luck searching for an Eclectus! Unfortunately "parrotbesties" is almost certainly a SCAM.

Huge red flag is advertising fertile eggs for sale. No reputable breeder contemplates shipping extraordinarily fragile eggs. Raising a chick from the hatch is literally a round the clock proposition for weeks and fraught with disaster for all involved. Here's the "egg" page, they offer an impossibly large roster of parrots! https://www.parrotbesties.com/parrot-eggs Secondarily, the home page appearance mimics many frauds we've seen. In the absence of eggs for sale, I'd have Google searched a few images and would likely find they are generic from across the globe.
 

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Completely agreeing with Scott. Any bird shop online selling live birds and/or eggs is always bad news when you can't see the birds and owners in the flesh!

Get in contact with your local bird club/ association, they will more than happily point you in the right direction of a quality breeder that knows what they're doing.
 

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