Does anyone own a Yellow Collard Macaw?

[eickhorn]

why are you suddenly looking to breed her? Or was this the plan all along?

If you want a pet bird breeding is among the worst ideas, they often times completely turn on humans. If you want a happy pet then don't breed her, they don't need babies to live happily

Im not looking to breed her at this moment. Yes i will sometime in the future, But i also need to learn more out this type of bird from someone who owns one. It cant hurt to line up contacts who can help me.

 

[EllenD]

why are you suddenly looking to breed her? Or was this the plan all along?

If you want a pet bird breeding is among the worst ideas, they often times completely turn on humans. If you want a happy pet then don't breed her, they don't need babies to live happily

Im not looking to breed her at this moment. Yes i will sometime in the future, But i also need to learn more out this type of bird from someone who owns one. It cant hurt to line up contacts who can help me.

As a long-time parrot breeder, something that people in-general, even parrot owners don't realize, is that USUALLY when you do what you are apparently definitely talking about doing, "finding her a male" and "will eventually breed her", what happens is that you lose your pet parrot completely!

Forgetting that you have very little parrot experience at all and that you need to do years of research and education about the topic, PLUS you need to find a current, active parrot breeder that hand-raises their babies and is local to you so that you can be mentored/shadow them and learn properly how to hand-raise/hand-feed baby parrots without killing them or making them extremely sick, ARE YOU READY TO ACTUALLY LOSE YOUR TAME, LOVING PET MACAW JUST SO YOU CAN BREED HER? Because that is typically what happens in probably 90% or more of the time when people insist on breeding their pet parrots.

And it makes total sense as to why this happens if you think about it. First of all, you need to be well aware that there is absolutely NO GUARANTEE that any male YCM that you bring home will bond will her, or vice-versa. They are like people in this sense, they will not just bond with any YCM of the opposite sex that they are introduced to, and you cannot force them to become bonded to them, you just can't, there's no way to do it. They either BOTH like each other or they don't, and very often when people attempt this they simply end-up with 2 pet parrots and that's it. So that's the second outcome you must be aware of, as if either bird doesn't want to bond with the other, then it's not going to happen. Then there is the other outcome of maybe they bond with each other, as in "friends", but one or both of them doesn't want to mate/breed with the other...This is the worst case scenario that can happen, because in this scenario you not only lose your loving pet parrot and end-up with 2 parrots that aren't very good pets anymore, but you also get no babies...

In order for 2 parrots to actually mate/breed and lay fertile eggs, they first must bond with each other closely, and this can take months to years to happen, and as stated above it often never happens. But if your current YCM does happen to eventually bond to whatever male YCM you decide to bring home to her, typically what happens over time is that the bond that you have already formed with your first bird is broken, and slowly your relationship with your parrot deteriorates to the point that usually you end-up not even being able to get them to do much more than step-up for you, if that. They get nippy, start biting, refuse to come near you, etc. And again this makes sense, as wouldn't you rather bond closely with another human than a bird if given the opportunity? So the "one-person-bird" turns into a "one-bird-bird" that only tolerates humans in-general. So in the worst case scenario you end up with 2 parrots that you can't even handle, you lose the current bond/relationship that you have with your YCM, and you get no babies because they refuse to mate, only bond.

The ideal arrangement that you want hardly ever happens, where your bird will bond closely enough with whichever male you bring home to mate with him and have babies, yet still stay closely bonded with you. It just doesn't happen, and this is why birds are very often sold as "breeding pairs", or "bonded pairs", or as "single bird from a bonded or breeding pair", and they are listed this way because it's needs to be know that these parrots are not going to be pets, but rather just breeders, or maybe eventual breeders, or if it's a single bird that was a part of a breeding pair at one time, it's going to take months to years of working with that bird to even attempt to get the bird to accept human interaction again.

So instead of being so determined to "eventually breed" your YCM at some point in the future, you need to seriously stop thinking that way and instead ask yourself whether or not you really want to and are willing to give-up your current relationship/bond with your female YCM, simply in-order to breed babies to sell. I don't say this to be rude to you, but simply to tell you the truth, I get the feeling from reading your recent posts here that this was your whole intention to begin with, to buy a YCM in order to breed her and sell the babies, which is fine if that's what your original intentions were. I just want to make sure you know what can and will happen if you actually take action on this as you seem determined to do so, everything from bringing home a male YCM that will not bond with your current female or vice-versa, to having them bond with each other but not breed and losing your current bond with your female, to having them bond and breed but losing your relationship with your current female. If you really only want to breed them and don't think of your YCM as a pet or at least not a pet you are closely bonded with, then that's totally fine and your choice, but just be aware of how this typically works...

I've inadvertently lost a few birds that I was very close with over the years, well, at least one that I was VERY close with, a cockatiel, who ended up breeding with a male that was never a tame, loving bird. She ended up tolerating me and would step-up for me, but that was it, no more pets, scritches, cuddles, no more hanging out on my shoulder, nothing, as the male cockatiel was way more interesting than me suddenly. It really did kind of hurt my feelings, as silly and stupid as that sounds. I knew what could happen and probably would happen, but i didn't realize how much I loved that cockatiel before-hand...I ended up selling them as a breeding-pair to a current and well-respected cockatiel breeder, and they are still doing very well. But that one still bugs me to this day...

 

[bug_n_flock]

Breeding is also very hazardous - you could lose one or all birds to disease, fighting, egg binding, etc etc etc. Did the family who sold you the female know she would/might end up as a breeding hen with such a potentially dangerous life?



Have you taken her to your certified avian vet for a first check up yet? If so, did you ask them if she is healthy enough to breed eventually?


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[DiscoDuck]

I just found out she in 12, not 2.5 yo. I was worried that she is trying lay an egg at a young age. Now I need to find a male to breed her sometime in the future.

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