Hi Guys!
My name is Heather and I am from NZ (well, the UK originally but I've been living here for the past 11 years). I've been keeping and breeding birds for quite a few years now but I've also got a lot of other animals that take up my time, cost me money and make me laugh every day!
I also have a hubby (Bri) who builds me aviaries and animal shelters when he should be programming computers
and four grown up kids, only two still at home though.
I started off with finches and they are my first love. I now have more zebra finches than I can count spread about aviaries and cages, inside and out. I try to specialize in a couple of mutations (black face and pieds) and managed to find a whole new feather mutation this year.
I also have societies/bengalese, javas, cubans, fires, red-faced parrot finches, orange breasts, gouldians and cordon bleus plus canaries and quail. My hookbills range from budgies through bourkes and turqs, red rumps, fischer lovebirds, tiels, rainbow lories and a lone crimson wing who is looking for love...
I have hand-reared most of the species I own at one time or another. I have two beautiful hr'd zebra girls plus a java left over from a brood I had to rescue and I keep losing the plot and hanging onto hookbill babies that I can't bear to part with after rearing them...
Ooh, and did I mention the ducks???
I'm very happy to meet you all - apart from Mon who introduced me and I'm
always happy to meet her!
I'm looking forward to chatting with you.
All the best,
Heather