Yesterday was cool and rainy. We left early in the morning to make the 70 mile trip to buy cockatiels and finches. I had spoken to the breeder a few times on the phone but never met him in person. When we arrived at his house I thought we were at the wrong place because I couldn't hear any birds. Thinking back to when I raised birds, you could hear my place long before you could see it. We were at the right place but the birds were not noisy as mine used to be at all. It might have been because it was raining, or maybe it was because I had over 600 breeding pairs. He had more larger parrots than I had, but less of the smaller ones.
He was very sweet and took us on a mini tour (because we were rushed for time) that lasted over an hour. The first building housed parakeet's love birds and finches. There was also a pair of African greys and a single, very sweet African grey. In the yard he had a pair of Amazons. Next building house several different pairs of amazons.
The next building had the cockatiels for sale, and other birds, which I can't remember now because I was focused on the cockatiels.
He had 5 for sale, I picked out four to bring home. I bought a pied male, a pied hen, a whiteface pearl hen, and a latino that I hope is a male. Its hard to tell because its tail feathers are missing. In fact two of the birds were missing tail feathers and the whiteface pearl hen looked plucked a little around her head. I'll post pictures today sometime. I paid $40 each for them.
These were the only cockatiels I have found close by. The others I found were about 300 miles away.
We also bought 7 little zebra finches. Two white ones and the rest are normal's, I think. I don't know the sex of the white ones, but I have at least 2 males and 3 females. Pictures later today.
We finished the tour in a hurry, but we seen conures of all kinds, quakers and cockatiels. He had more to see but we ran out of time. I could spend hours and hours there, looking at his birds and talking with him.
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