Has anybody purchased any parrots from this company? I inquired about what their magna breeding pairs looked like so that I could get an idea of how one would look at maturity.
This was their response:
Colors and color variations in any double yellow head species or sub species can be moderate to extreme. It can take up to 25 years for magna sub species to reach full color. We have several pair that are extreme colored and some that are moderate colors, with extreme colored babies being being produced by moderate and moderate colored babies being produced from the extreme colored pairs, the recessive genes that produce the colors in this subspecies is not always predictable or reproduced like the parents.We have seen babies with little color actually be extreme colored as they reach their 10th year as where some very colorful babies did not change very much until they reached 2 decades of age. We have several breeding programs with genetics research on this subspecies as well the red african greys and red factor greys. We have seen many many birds offered by breeders being called magna thinking this makes their birds special, however the birds are nothing more than oratrix and no outward visual traits of magna one being full yellow stockings. We have researched this subsspecies for over 30 years. This subspecies origins are from the eastern slopes and mountains of mexico, where oratrix nominate species are from the central and southern mexico regions, only a slight geographical region separate the 2 and where they do overlap they do not breed or mix only in captivity where forced do these species and subspecies actually breed. we do not interbreed the two. Due to our selective breeding for over 30 years we have actually produced our own breeding stock that is pure species. Many of our customers are breeders searching for quality pure stock for their future breedings. We thank you for the interest in our programs."
I never purchase livestock sight unseen so I was wondering if anybody has any dealings with them, specifically their magnas. I do not understand their reluctance to show their breeding stock.
This was their response:
Colors and color variations in any double yellow head species or sub species can be moderate to extreme. It can take up to 25 years for magna sub species to reach full color. We have several pair that are extreme colored and some that are moderate colors, with extreme colored babies being being produced by moderate and moderate colored babies being produced from the extreme colored pairs, the recessive genes that produce the colors in this subspecies is not always predictable or reproduced like the parents.We have seen babies with little color actually be extreme colored as they reach their 10th year as where some very colorful babies did not change very much until they reached 2 decades of age. We have several breeding programs with genetics research on this subspecies as well the red african greys and red factor greys. We have seen many many birds offered by breeders being called magna thinking this makes their birds special, however the birds are nothing more than oratrix and no outward visual traits of magna one being full yellow stockings. We have researched this subsspecies for over 30 years. This subspecies origins are from the eastern slopes and mountains of mexico, where oratrix nominate species are from the central and southern mexico regions, only a slight geographical region separate the 2 and where they do overlap they do not breed or mix only in captivity where forced do these species and subspecies actually breed. we do not interbreed the two. Due to our selective breeding for over 30 years we have actually produced our own breeding stock that is pure species. Many of our customers are breeders searching for quality pure stock for their future breedings. We thank you for the interest in our programs."
I never purchase livestock sight unseen so I was wondering if anybody has any dealings with them, specifically their magnas. I do not understand their reluctance to show their breeding stock.