I bought Sunny at an aviary where he was kept with African Greys, Cockatoos, Macaws and 2 other Ringnecks. They were all still being hand fed and some did not even have feathers yet. I did not like that they were kept together out in the open where people made contact with them as they pleased. Under normal circumstances I would not have bought Sunny but both my daughter and I fell in love when we saw him. After Sunny was set free my next step was to find the source.
I returned to the aviary to find the breeder - owner - well ANYBODY responsible. When we arrived there armed with dvd recorder and camera the place was crowded with public and the keeper was standing close by. I immediately told the public to move away from the babies because of positive PBFD and that by touching these birds they will spread the disease to their own birds and everywhere they go. The people where shocked and the keeper stood closer to hear what I was saying. Of course I started ripping out of hurt, sorrow and anger and he just stood there acting stupid. A white guy stood next to him and started talking to me, he did not introduce himself, oh no, I had to ask him who he was. It turned out that he was the owner, the EXACT person I was looking for.
He was VERY concerned with what I was saying and explained that he has a farm 2 hours away and only comes every 3 days to check on the business! How on earth can you manage an aviary without doing it hands on!!!!!
I showed him how dirty the grids where (they werent really dirty) pointed out to him that ALL the babies where fed with the SAME tube and they are all in contact with each other so that meant that ALL of them are sick. We are talking of about 30 babies. I told him that the babies should not have contact with public because heaven knows where this disease came from and already spread to!
We agreed that he was going to completely change his setup and take them to be tested. He was also going to follow up with all the breeders where the babies came from and will keep me informed. I took all his details, took photos and recorded him and warned him that if he does not do it then I will destroy his name publicly.
I've been there since and he did make huge changes, the public has no contact with the babies any more and he showed me how/where he will quarantine any new babies.
He phoned me this morning to tell me that the result on the 10 that was tested all came back positive. They are all with Sunny now. This means that all of them will join Sunny later this afternoon.
His other birds, over a 100 of them, were about 15 meters away from the babies so we dont know if that would have been enough, especially because public and employees touched the babies and then moved in between the other bird cages. Even one feather caught by the wind is deadly enough to have spread it to his other birds.
He is going to have some of them tested on Monday.
The saddest part is that lots of babies where already sold - did these people quarantine? How many other birds at their homes are now also infected? The other 2 ringnecks that were there were sold to a couple that took them with to Botswana.
He offered to give me a full refund, how can you ever replace my heart with money?
I returned to the aviary to find the breeder - owner - well ANYBODY responsible. When we arrived there armed with dvd recorder and camera the place was crowded with public and the keeper was standing close by. I immediately told the public to move away from the babies because of positive PBFD and that by touching these birds they will spread the disease to their own birds and everywhere they go. The people where shocked and the keeper stood closer to hear what I was saying. Of course I started ripping out of hurt, sorrow and anger and he just stood there acting stupid. A white guy stood next to him and started talking to me, he did not introduce himself, oh no, I had to ask him who he was. It turned out that he was the owner, the EXACT person I was looking for.
He was VERY concerned with what I was saying and explained that he has a farm 2 hours away and only comes every 3 days to check on the business! How on earth can you manage an aviary without doing it hands on!!!!!
I showed him how dirty the grids where (they werent really dirty) pointed out to him that ALL the babies where fed with the SAME tube and they are all in contact with each other so that meant that ALL of them are sick. We are talking of about 30 babies. I told him that the babies should not have contact with public because heaven knows where this disease came from and already spread to! We agreed that he was going to completely change his setup and take them to be tested. He was also going to follow up with all the breeders where the babies came from and will keep me informed. I took all his details, took photos and recorded him and warned him that if he does not do it then I will destroy his name publicly.
I've been there since and he did make huge changes, the public has no contact with the babies any more and he showed me how/where he will quarantine any new babies.
He phoned me this morning to tell me that the result on the 10 that was tested all came back positive.
They are all with Sunny now. This means that all of them will join Sunny later this afternoon. His other birds, over a 100 of them, were about 15 meters away from the babies so we dont know if that would have been enough, especially because public and employees touched the babies and then moved in between the other bird cages. Even one feather caught by the wind is deadly enough to have spread it to his other birds.
He is going to have some of them tested on Monday.
The saddest part is that lots of babies where already sold - did these people quarantine? How many other birds at their homes are now also infected? The other 2 ringnecks that were there were sold to a couple that took them with to Botswana.
He offered to give me a full refund, how can you ever replace my heart with money?
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