StressReelief
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- Aug 16, 2017
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Skye - Blue Quaker
Just brought home the second baby, no name yet. Blue Quaker also
Hello all, my name is Jon and my lovely other half is Colleen. About 3 months ago, our beautiful daughter came over for her weekly visit with the grands kids ( we weren't home from work yet) and sends us a picture via text of a rather battered wayward Quaker that she found perched on our fence line, clearly a domesticated bird as she was able to walk right up to it, it climbed on her hand and then anxiously to her shoulder for said picture. Of course daughter and wifey are thinking "new family member" "I" on the other hand am thinking about the bird and it's lost home/family, so we secure the bird for its own safety in a small dog crate, we have two pups, an 11# Pomeranian and a 130# American bull. We live in a rather rural community but it's rather tight knit, so I immediately posted the very picture my daughter sent us on a community social media page in search of the rightful owner, as well as posted a printed copy at our local mom and pop convenience store. Meanwhile I'm searching Craigslist and others alike trying to find an appropriate cage on the thrift, researching diet and so on. All of my researching revealed to me many things I did not know about Quakers. Well within 36 hours we found the rightful parents of the bird, and I returned "Terry" to his owners. My daughter however, and even my wife a little, were crushed. So after some talking between the wife and I, we agreed to do more research and decided that having a bird in our lives now that the kids are grown and "almost" gone lol, would be a nice addition to our "almost" empty nest. So goes the search for a private avarian breeder with great reviews and credentials and 3 months later we have 2 young hand fed quakers. The first, now named Skye came home about 3 weeks ago, and the baby deemed our daughters came home 2 days ago, both are blues. We are hopeful for interaction with other Quaker parents in a positive light, as our social media page participation has not been quite so positive