Black Palm Cockatoos

[SouthernSunriseAviary]

Hello Parrot World. I'm looking for people who breed Black Palm Cockatoos. I'm looking to buy a few black palm eggs to hatch. If anyone has a few eggs they would be willing to sell, Please contact me to Let me know. Thank You!

 

[chris-md]

The sale of parrot eggs is a scam, friend. You won’t find any legitimate source - parrot eggs don’t travel well at all.

If you want babies, you’ll likely have to go through a broker for something that rare. But you’ll never find eggs for sale.

 

[texsize]

You would be just as successful trying to hatch a chicken egg you bought from the grocery store.

 

[Kiwibird]

Really hoping that you listing so many species of parrots you’ll be “picking up in a few weeks” doesn’t mean you “bought” a bunch of parrot eggs online!!!

As Chris said, parrot eggs are 100% certain to be a scam. I’m not sure what is possible for other birds, but the eggs of parrots cannot survive for long outside a very expensive brooder for exotic eggs to keep them at precise temperature, humidity and I believe it needs to rotate them too OR to ideally leave them under the care of the parent birds. If you want a black palm, you’ll be looking in the $25000 range, minimum, IF you can find one at all. No actual breeder of these exceedingly rare birds would sell someone an unweaned baby, except perhaps to another breeder with an extremely good track record and years of experience hand-feeding baby cockatoos.

May I ask what your intention is with so many widely different species of parrots is? Usually breeders of large and extra large parrots specialize in a single species group, like exclusively breeding macaws or exclusively breeding amazons, though they may have several pairs of different species of macaw or amazons etc...still making for a large and profitable operation. Having so much....variation in species may make what I can only assume you’d like to develop into a business kinda sound more like a bird mill than an experienced breeder who gives ample time and attention to each baby. Most people are willing to pay far more to a small scale breeder who produces exceptional babies than a large operation that churns them out like an assembly line. Unlike reptiles (I looked at your profile and see you breed them), parrots need to be cared for on an emotional level as well as be socialized from a young age. That’s very hard to do when you have numerous babies at once and of different species (as they all differ quite a bit).

 

[ChristaNL]

Yup, try hatching one of those chocolate easter eggs will give you the same results!

Raising chicks from eggs is difficult anyway- babybirds get al lot things (healthy bacteria, resistance to diseases etc.etc. ) from their parrentbirds the first few weeks along with the food.
So even if you do not take into account the psycological damage incubater-parrots get from absolutely no interaction with their own species and just focus on the physical side of things: you'll not be betting the healthiest possible parrot ever.

Best case scenario: You most likely will end up with a demo-model of a bird, (it looks like one, but really is not one) that will not be able to interact let alone breed with another parrot.
So for a threatened/ rare species that will still be "the end of the line".


No-one who is seriously into breeding (and conservation) will sell eggs.
(And abolutely not online to just anyone!)


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Are you Ana again?
Trawling for cheap and easy parrots?

 

[bug_n_flock]

I've worked with a black palm 2. Wild caught and illegally imported. Luckily fish and game siezed the shipment and desseminated the birds to approved keepers. One was my boss. We had Artie for some 20 or so years before finding a breeder to take him in... last I heard he had successfully had 2 chicks. Way to go Artie!


He was an amazing bird, Black Palms demand respect in a major way. I doubt if *anyone* actually working with that species would even consider selling eggs.

 

[SilleIN]

Just a question. Say I am an owner of a pair of rare birds and they produce eggs. Some parrots will lay extra eggs if the eggs are taken soon after they are layed, so let's say I have such a pair.

I then have the option of selling the eggs at a fifth of the price of a baby or put the egg in an incubator and make MUCH more.

Do you think that any person will sell fertile eggs, if they can make the money themselves?

Most of the eggs for sale is usually not from the species specified and IF they are from the species listed, you are quite certain it is from a bird, who previously has never produced fertile eggs.

So yup, you will have much more success incubating chocolate eggs, they at least still taste good even when warm