[SWhite]

Outlaw,
You did help and I appreciate it, but you also gave me a tong lashing. I am not a good righter, I just type in what I have to say, I'm not angry although it may seem that way if you read my posts. I'm just typing what I have to say. So here it goes:
It did seem as if Donna was being treated like a 5 year old (I felt the same way). Everytime someone asks questions about unweened birds they get treated that way. We come to this board to learn. I had read all the posts on baby birds when I got mine, So I knew I would get told it was a bad thing when I posted pics of my new baby, and I did. I ignored all the posts that said the breeder was bad, and I was made to feel like a bad child for buying a baby. I just kept asking questions because I really wanted to properly raise my bird.
You should see how PROUD I am of my Macaw. To think I took and raised a 5 week old baby with no feathers, and now he is beautiful. You should see how he loves us and we love him. I am very proud!
If I had gotten mad and left this board, or if I had been too scared to ask questions because of the remarks, things could have turned out very different.
Like I said I had read all the posts about babies on this board when I got this bird. I knew for a fact that I was going to aspire him, I knew he would get a bacterial infection, I knew he would fall and break something. I knew I had a 50/50 chance that my bird would die.( I am very surprised I had no emergencies) So with the help I recieved from this board I was ready for all of these things. Luckly none of these things happened.
Now Donna (DCas) Has gotten mad and left. She wants a baby macaw. So, she WILL find a breeder to sell her a baby, and she will buy that baby. Now, she has left and will raise a baby bird without your help. That baby bird would have alot better chance of survival with the help of everyone at this board (as mine did).And what ever happened to nykkchic, I wonder how her baby is doing? She got souch a tong lashing. I felt bad. I dont see her posts anymore.
TN and MS it is not illegal to buy and sell baby birds. You should have seen all the 3 and 5 week old babies for sale at the Memphis bird show this spring. They had 3 times more babies for sale as did weaned birds. Think about all the people being talked into buying a baby and know nothing about it. They come home with a sheet of paper with a feeding schedule on it, as I did. Without this board I would have been lost.
Why do you say talking about handfeeding is not allowed here?
Why dont you post a thread, like the macaw thread or the lounge. Post a thread just on how to handfeed babies. I KNOW you think it would cause people to run out and buy babies. BUT what about the people that have allready baught babies and want to learn. Just think of all the people you could help, and how many babies could be saved.
I dont know why people spend hundreds of dollars to buy a baby bird and then starve it. I could not do that to a baby bird, even if it was given to me. I think that if someone comes to this board and asks questions, they are at least trying to raise a baby bird right.
I dont know, you might be right. Maybe they should not sell baby birds. But right now they are selling them. Why not help, without the remarks?
...........Shea