I always anted a CAG, lately I had the time and the money to get one.
Mexico regulations about parrots and corruption leads to almost no breeders and since is illegal since 2008 to get any parrot or macaw which distribution is in Mexico.
Fist I bought many books about CAG and then the cage the toys, then I search for an avian vet in my area(And there where only two in the whole area) and finally I started asking who had a legal parrot or where to buy one. Finally I found a guy who bought one legally and told me about my current breeder (There are just like 5 in Mexico that I could find out). Finally I contacted him and after two phone calls I make a deposit to close the deal. After 4 months he shipped the parrot that he told me that is was partially weaned, which I find odd since at 4 months they are usually fully weaned at this point he was desperate to ship the bird, which I find odd, Then everything turned fishier.
He arrived from mexico city under another seller name (that was not my breeder). He was not weaned at all and looked weak, at the beginning I thought it was younger than 4 months and thats why it was weak, after two days he started having a bad nasal discharge and I immediately called the avian vet who is not in the city(currently on vacations out of the country) then i called the other avian vet who is away as away as well but they gave me the phone of a veterinarian who know about birds as well. I brought it to the vet and she told me that he looked awful and his state was critical, he injected him (My baby name is armando) antibiotics and gave me more antibiotics and told if something happened to come back I went home and two hours passed and armando had fever and couldnt breathe well we went back to the vet and they started to lower his fever and gave him more antibiotics (inhaled) we went back home and everything was fine for two days. Today he looks fine but he is not accepting food he had barely ate just 15 cc of formula and 10 cc of serum. I called the vet and told me to try to make him eat more but he won't eat anything.
I´m desperate I don't want him to die.
On the other hand I called the "breeder" and he confessed he never saw the bird and the pictures he sent to me where not real... and he just resell a bird he bought from another breeder. I called the breeder who sent my baby and told me is not his problem if the bird is sick.
Im sorry for my english if somebody have any advise please help.
Mexico regulations about parrots and corruption leads to almost no breeders and since is illegal since 2008 to get any parrot or macaw which distribution is in Mexico.
Fist I bought many books about CAG and then the cage the toys, then I search for an avian vet in my area(And there where only two in the whole area) and finally I started asking who had a legal parrot or where to buy one. Finally I found a guy who bought one legally and told me about my current breeder (There are just like 5 in Mexico that I could find out). Finally I contacted him and after two phone calls I make a deposit to close the deal. After 4 months he shipped the parrot that he told me that is was partially weaned, which I find odd since at 4 months they are usually fully weaned at this point he was desperate to ship the bird, which I find odd, Then everything turned fishier.
He arrived from mexico city under another seller name (that was not my breeder). He was not weaned at all and looked weak, at the beginning I thought it was younger than 4 months and thats why it was weak, after two days he started having a bad nasal discharge and I immediately called the avian vet who is not in the city(currently on vacations out of the country) then i called the other avian vet who is away as away as well but they gave me the phone of a veterinarian who know about birds as well. I brought it to the vet and she told me that he looked awful and his state was critical, he injected him (My baby name is armando) antibiotics and gave me more antibiotics and told if something happened to come back I went home and two hours passed and armando had fever and couldnt breathe well we went back to the vet and they started to lower his fever and gave him more antibiotics (inhaled) we went back home and everything was fine for two days. Today he looks fine but he is not accepting food he had barely ate just 15 cc of formula and 10 cc of serum. I called the vet and told me to try to make him eat more but he won't eat anything.
I´m desperate I don't want him to die.
On the other hand I called the "breeder" and he confessed he never saw the bird and the pictures he sent to me where not real... and he just resell a bird he bought from another breeder. I called the breeder who sent my baby and told me is not his problem if the bird is sick.
Im sorry for my english if somebody have any advise please help.
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