Why to make sure to SEE your bird b4 you get it.

I got severly burned in a bird trade that involved shipping. I shiiped out a male Citron crested cockatoo in trade for a "proven" pair of Lesser sulphur creted cockatoos. Upon getting my new pair home, I noticed that not only were they both visually females, the smaller one was flopping around the cage and couldn't climb up onto the perches. I brought it to the vet and spent $300 to find out that poor bird was emaciated, anemic, dehydrated, weak, and had chronic reperitory disease needing medication. It had been left untreated for a long time. I had to tube feed the poor little bird 4 times a day and give meds 2wice a day, but in 2 days, the little bird died. I took the little body to the vet the next day for a necropsy and full histo exam and surgical sexing. The results for the histo came back negative for PDD or anything transferable, the sex exam came back that it was a female, not a male, with small inactive overies and uterus, she had an abnormal heart, and among all her sickness, had a ruptured crop aswell. I waas out another $250 for the second vet visit, so about $550 in total, and out the life of a bird.
This supposed "proven pair" was actually 2 females, one sick and died, and one very underweight but otherwize alright. My first time shipping, and definatly my LAST.
Be sure when trading or buying birds, you SEE and can be allowed to examine the bird first.
Things like this should never happen.
Thanks.

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• dead
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[captmicha]

Those are some VERY cheap vet bills. If you saw mine, you'd be way more than that. Did you at least get the bird you shipped out back? I'd be so worried about him.

[nito962]

I never got the chance to ship back. The day after I brought the poor little "girl" to the vet, she died (in a blanket in my arms), so I had to take her poor lifeless body "back" to the vet to get a full necropsy&histo done to make sure it was not death by a communible disease. Thankfulyy it wasn't she was clear, BUT, had been suffereing from a lung infection left untreated for months and months and months. I had her for 5 days, not even a week... before she died while being treated. So so sad.

[Codynbirds]

are they really that small?

[nito962]

yup, they are "lessers" the smaller one is a subspecies of the lesser, and it is even smaller.

[rockinseattle]

NITO962 Thank you for not breeding any more.. Help educate others about how hard it is to take care of these magnificent creatures, that they deserve a good life and are not throw aways when taking care of them gets hard... Plus help other future birds by talking to other breeders and maybe you all can join in to help save the birds that currently need homes and love.

[tritont00]

Vet bills? HA! I paid $5000.00 for Maggie and have to this day, invested $4000.00 MORE in vet bills. Olivers illness, death and necropsy set me back over a grand more. I ate every DIME of those costs and would do it again!!

[BelacProductions]

I have 1 cat, 2 goldfish, lots of tropical fish, 2 budgies, I used to have a hamster before it died in his sleep just before Christmas, and I will soon be adopting a cockatoo ( cockatiel ).

[BelacProductions]

Oops they aren't all my pets I just accidently said send when I was typing 1 cat lol sorry.

[BelacProductions]

I will be adopting a cockatoo very soon because it needs a home but I'm going to have a look at him first and the cage( but I will probably let it loose in my house anyway) . I am an animal lover. The main reason I have them is because I HATE seeing them in tight awkward hot cages. Yes they are bought buy me but that's the only way to get them out of that place. These are the animals , birds, fish that I have: 1 cat,

[Emilybudgie]

I feel so sorry for you.

[minihorseluver]

scubaahood: i agree, but most breeding birds aren't tame so they probably weren't her kids. breeders let these beautiful birds become wild so they'll produce clutches of eggs for sale for a profit. it's all about money for most breeders.

[minihorseluver]

why did u wait 4 days after you received them to take the bird to a vet? they both should've been taken to a vet the first day they arrived!

[funauntkelley]

hmmm hope you learned a lesson. Not too smart

[scubaahood]

you are a joke

[scubaahood]

This is why you RESCUE birds, what the hell is trading? Would you "trade" your kids? This is TERRIBLE. DO NOT BUY OR TRADE BIRDS!!!!!!

STOP BREEDING AND BUYING.