Help finding Finny a friend

[Finnysmommie]

I have been trying to contact different breeders to find Finny a new companion. I am having no luck at all :cry:
I did speak to one breeder who said it may be best to get a young male if I just want to have a new birdie for a companion and not to mate. This sounded reasonable to me but I still cant find anyone who has any available birdies.

What I am asking is does anyone here breed? Is there a board for breeders? I dont mind paying shipping charges. I just want to find a young handfed (at least partially tame) preferably male lovie to hang out with Finny and be spoiled like he is :) I used to have a color preference and everything but this is getting harder and harder to find any lovies that meet the above requirements (requirements also include the obvious... healthy).

Am I just asking for to much? I really want one that is at least partially tame because I feel bad spending so much more time with one pet family member over all the rest. Finny was incredibly easy to tame. When we got Evie I expected the same..... WRONG! She was a very timid scared lovie (she never quite grew out of that, maybe it should have been a sign to us she was not quite right). Anyway, I spent lots and lots of time with her and made very little progress until she was out of the seperation period and living with Finny. I would just like this time to be a bit easier. Not that we did not appreciate the ways Evie was different but it did make it harder.

Anyway, as always I have rambled on and on.... but, if you can help, please let me know.

Many Thanks,
Cindy (Finnysmommie and Always Evies too)

[#1ThaiBoxer]

here is a directory. I didnt find this but someone else posted it on this site

http://www.flyinggems.com/fga/avianbreeders.htm

[Mummieeva]

ALso check out www.petfinder.com. They are a site that has birds for adoption. If you look at top there is a classified section also for owners who are trying to find birds new homes.




Steph

[linda040899]

What I am asking is does anyone here breed?
I do, Cindy, but I'm in FL and all my lovebirds are parent raised, when possible. However, ask Lori (bellarains) about Lacey. Lacey is from my aviary and she was 2 yrs old/never handled when Lori got her.....

I have one young lovie that I'm currently handfeeding (no choice) but I can't guarantee gender. It could be either sex.

[Keltoth]

Hi Cindy -

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and have several young birds that are hand-tamed, loving birds (six from my mid-summer hatch and four that are six weeks old and will be weaning just about Christmas time).

Anyway, I am sending the DNA samples in Moday to find out who is what, so I should have several males available, if you are interested. I don't know how far south into Arizona you are, but if you feel up to a weekend trip to Utah or are coming near the SLC area for Christmas, etc, I can surely get you set up with a wonderful bird (ask zlatushka/Rachel about her little Pallid hen she got from my flock for a reference). If you DO come all the way to Utah to get him, I will give one of my non-split Opaline males to you for the cost of his DNA test ($20).

- Eric

[graushill]

Hi Cindy,

I know I'm really late in this, but I did want to say how sorry I am about Evie. I haven't been able to log in as often as I would like and I have missed a lot, including your posts about Evie's sickness. I'll remember her always as the pretty Milo birdie :).

Good luck in finding a new companion for Finny, I'm sure he appreciates how hard you're trying to find him a new buddy. I wish I could help but being in Sweden kinda cramps my style, well that and the fact that I only have masks. I just wanted to add that in my experience parent fed birdies can be pretty sweet and tame too. I'm not sure if it's a socializing thing or if it's just a personality thing. Just my :2cents:.

:grouphug:

Gloria

[Janie]

Hi Cindy,

The breeder that I got my last two from does hand feed, does DNA and does ship. I think shipping for one up to seven is $100. Anyway, here is her website. http://www.shdybrk.com/

She, Rubygem, aka Jeanette, is a member of this forum but rarely has time to pop in since she's always busy feeding babies! :D I have no idea what she has available right now but do know that she is finished feeding the last several clutches so my guess is that she has babies ready to go. I am very, very happy with the two that I got from her. Jackie (lovebird) and Lori (Green Cheek Conure) have also gotten birds from Jeanette along with several other forum members.

[Finnysmommie]

See I learn so much on this site! I am so thankful that I found it! I thought that only hand fed babies are tame. One of these days I will look back at all of my posts and laugh at how "green" I was once upon a time!

Gloria, thanks for remembering our Evie. She is still missed by our family (human, feathered and furred) very much. She will always be in our hearts. I get choked up when I see pics of her still. One thing that has helped me so much is the fact that you are all here and that I know I am talking with people who truely understand what it is like and have been through it. I dont think people who have never had birds can possibly understand just how much they are a part of us.

I will be contacting those who have birdies available though private chat so please be on the look out for my messages.

As always thank you all for being the best godparents finny could ever hope for!!!!

Cindy (Finnysmommie and always Evie's too)

[mjm8321]

Cindy,

I also breed and have a bunch of tame little sweeties at the moment and more hatching as I type! LOL I ship also, via Alaska/Hrizon Airlines direct flights to Tuscon and Phoenix.

Send me a PM and let me know what you are looking for and I'll let you know if I can help.

Thanks.

[Z28Taxman]

Looks like Cindy is gonna have more lovies than she can shake a millet spray at! :rofl:

[Finnysmommie]

Looks like Cindy is gonna have more lovies than she can shake a millet spray at! :rofl:

You know if we were already in our new house I may just have to take one of each!!!! But since they wont have our house built till April I guess I will have to settle for just one. But.... If hubby follows through on his promise of turning our courtyard into an aviary, I may just have to make a few additions! But then again if it were up to me no animal would ever be homeless or unloved. I guess it is a good thing for hubby we dont own a big farm because it would be full of every animal that you could think of that had no home! He is in trouble if we ever win the lottery, because that is exactly what I would do!

[Finnysmommie]

Ok I had to share this .... The hubby and I were looking at pictures of the different kinds of lovebirds. I saw some black cheeked lovebirds and was like honey look arent they pretty! He said, they look like they have a robbers mask over their heads! I was like you are silly and he said "I can see it now if we get one of those I can hear him saying to Finny..... "hey Finny lets go knock over a liquor store".

I think he is trying to just get me off track because I saw some sun conures and fell in love with them and now hubby is panicing and seeing our house turn into noahs ark.