Went To Flying High Bird Aviary

14 Oct 2011, 09:32

I would just like to know WHY ?

Is it the $$$$ or is it the God complex ...I created that .

Mutations I can handle but to breed 1 specie to another is beyond me .

Having said that my others halfs ambition is to cross a Galah with his beloved Corella .

I guess we are all different and see things different ...Thnak goodness for that .

14 Oct 2011, 12:43

mickw wrote:it would be hard to manage hybrids if you put Rainbow, Red Collared, Scalie and Musk Lorikeets in together

Which is why you don't put them in together. Pretty dissapointing IMHO.

14 Oct 2011, 13:33

Tintola wrote:GREAT!!!! I'll be able to get some Victoria Crowned Pigeons and some Many coloured Fruit Doves and some Pheasant Pigeons and........... Oh..... I bet it's just racing pigeons, Eh? Go and figure that one out, we are able to import the ones most likely to have a disease. One would think that the quarantine procedures would be the same but I guess that gambling on racing pigeons is where the pressure and money is.

I agree frustrating. I can't see why we couldn't make a push for some of these pigeon species- CITES issues aside. It will all come down to dollars and cents. At the end of the day who has afew hundred thousand dollars to get this off the ground? Not any time soon, I don't think.
And where would you source enough pigeon species to make it worthwhile? How many people would be THAT keen to import exotic pigeons, as beautiful as they are?
Even if parrot imports were allowed again there wouldn't be too much money forthcoming unless they (the authorities) greatly increased the range of species that were allowed to be imported, such is the current state of things.

14 Oct 2011, 20:03

jusdeb wrote:I would just like to know WHY ?

Is it the $$$$ or is it the God complex ...I created that .

Mutations I can handle but to breed 1 specie to another is beyond me .

Having said that my others halfs ambition is to cross a Galah with his beloved Corella .

I guess we are all different and see things different ...Thnak goodness for that .

I reckon it's the money, have you seen the price for something like a sulpur x galah, but what a pointless and useless thing to do seeing the animal is usually sterile, only good for the pet market and people who are wiling to pay top dollars for something "different" so not the type of person you want owning your birds anyway (only for the show off value)