Does your flighted bird buzz you?

[Ladyhawk]

For some reason selling wild Irns is still a popular practice which blows my mind

does it though? We're both very aware of why. It's that green stuff in the wallet. A net, a tiny petco budgie cage and a bag of seed is a lot cheaper than going through the proper method. Then you sell that bird off and make $600 in profit never speaking to the buyer ever again.

Makes. Me. Sick.

It's no secret around here that I breed birds. Members are more than welcome to take issue with that and I'm more than happy to sit down and discuss why and how I do what I do and how it is HELPING unwanted parrots, not hurting them. But yeah, a lot of people are just in it for the dough and those are the people who ruin everything for everyone. An IRN SHOULD be expensive, so should a budgie! They should cost enough to let the breeder pour hours into them every day to make them the happiest, healthiest, best possible bird they can be. Instead parrot mills use money saving cruel damaging shortcuts like early clipping, force weaning, etc to drop the prices so low that the only way to make money is to sell hundreds or thousands of them at a time.


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I made mistakes when I was a breeder, but I really did the best I could. I always put the birds' health ahead of the bottom line. Unfortunately, time has favored the large parrot mills.

 

[SilverSage]

We all do our best with the knowledge we have. It's the people who know better but refuse to do better that infuriate me.


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