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Originally Posted by SWhite

I did not know there were thousands of baby birds being killed due to handfeeding them improperly. I went to the bird show to buy a B&G Macaw, the ONLY one they had at the whole bird show was a 5 week old baby. Talked to 2 breeders thay said handfeeding is easy, so I bought the bird. I knew I had a 50/50 chance of this bird dying. I took the chance, learned everything I could, and did fine.

THIS is the real problem. Breeders are selling unweaned babies and making people think it is easy and then they don't want to believe us when we say that it isn't that easy. The breeder wants to make a sale, we care about the welfare of the bird. There are all kinds of things that can go wrong. Shea you were in the lucky 50%. What about the other 50%? The bird doesn't get to choose who buys him, the lucky ones or the unlucky ones who will have problems they are ill-equiped to deal with.