noblemacaw
New member
- Sep 23, 2011
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- Parrots
- Valentino - Red Fronted Macaw - Hatched August 12, 2012
I joined this form over a year ago when I was researching RFM's. A breeder was found and the decision to acquire one was made. It has taken us over a year to pay for our RFM and we sweated it for a bit when the clutches were coming back DNA'ed female (we requested a male). It was a happy day when the breeder reported the last clutch of the season had ONE male. We are getting the only male RFM of the season. His name is Valentino.
For the past few days I have been making a lot of posts about my flock and I realized that every single member of my flock is gone. Then for what ever reason I thought "Oh my, what if people are out there thinking I can't keep my parrots alive." It sort of looks really bad that all my birds are gone and I have their hatch dates and death dates listed as my parrots.
I wanted to take the time to reintroduce myself to hopefully clear up any confusion I might of made with my current posts.
All my life I have been a bird person. I will always be a bird person and I realize over the years I am a much happier person with birds in my life. My current situation with the death of my parrots is the result of crappy luck of the genetic straw. My Eclectus Joaquin died of cancer, my Illiger's macaw Diego died from a fatal stroke and my Noble Macaw Mihijo died from a suspected heart attack (waiting on necropsy results at this time but Dr. Blair feels very strongly it was from a heart attack). With both my mini macaws I can trace back problems in their genetic lines. Mihijo's breeder told me at my open house back in 1995 (Mihijo was about 4 months old) that the father had died but never told me why. Dr. Blair reported to me that Diego's stroke was most likely from genetics also.
Every singe one of my parrots meant so much to me and I have always taken very good care of them. They were part of my family and were a huge joy in my life. They are all so sorely missed my home is not the same without my feathered friends. I have and always will strive to continue to learn about parrot care. I feel that you can never stop learning how to care for parrots properly and always take that active step to learn updated information. I am proud to say I have worked very hard with Dr. Blair in regard to the change in Mihijo's diet so that his numbers could fall back into normal levels. We were able to successfully lower his cholesterol from in the 1200's to under 300 in less than 6 months. When Mihijo passed he was doing very well, way better than we expected, but Dr. Blair feels that the heart attack was very sudden but we had done exceptionally well for him regardless. (I might of been making posts about Mihijo's health issues in this form but am not sure)
Anyway I am open to any and all questions so that no one will be confused or no misunderstanding occur. I mostly want people to know where I am coming from and that I am a person who has lost three wonderful feathered companions that were my best friends.
Sincerely,
Noblemacaw
For the past few days I have been making a lot of posts about my flock and I realized that every single member of my flock is gone. Then for what ever reason I thought "Oh my, what if people are out there thinking I can't keep my parrots alive." It sort of looks really bad that all my birds are gone and I have their hatch dates and death dates listed as my parrots.
I wanted to take the time to reintroduce myself to hopefully clear up any confusion I might of made with my current posts.
All my life I have been a bird person. I will always be a bird person and I realize over the years I am a much happier person with birds in my life. My current situation with the death of my parrots is the result of crappy luck of the genetic straw. My Eclectus Joaquin died of cancer, my Illiger's macaw Diego died from a fatal stroke and my Noble Macaw Mihijo died from a suspected heart attack (waiting on necropsy results at this time but Dr. Blair feels very strongly it was from a heart attack). With both my mini macaws I can trace back problems in their genetic lines. Mihijo's breeder told me at my open house back in 1995 (Mihijo was about 4 months old) that the father had died but never told me why. Dr. Blair reported to me that Diego's stroke was most likely from genetics also.
Every singe one of my parrots meant so much to me and I have always taken very good care of them. They were part of my family and were a huge joy in my life. They are all so sorely missed my home is not the same without my feathered friends. I have and always will strive to continue to learn about parrot care. I feel that you can never stop learning how to care for parrots properly and always take that active step to learn updated information. I am proud to say I have worked very hard with Dr. Blair in regard to the change in Mihijo's diet so that his numbers could fall back into normal levels. We were able to successfully lower his cholesterol from in the 1200's to under 300 in less than 6 months. When Mihijo passed he was doing very well, way better than we expected, but Dr. Blair feels that the heart attack was very sudden but we had done exceptionally well for him regardless. (I might of been making posts about Mihijo's health issues in this form but am not sure)
Anyway I am open to any and all questions so that no one will be confused or no misunderstanding occur. I mostly want people to know where I am coming from and that I am a person who has lost three wonderful feathered companions that were my best friends.
Sincerely,
Noblemacaw
