The downside of selling birds (rant)

[casehulsebosch]

I just returned last week from attending the World Bird show hosted by and in The Netherlands.

Apart from the fact that there were 22.000 plus birds on display and another 22.000 birds for sale, a large number of birds were displayed in disposable bird cages.
These cages were also available to members of the public for 2 bucks ( as in Euro's) no need to drag cages along for the bird sales corner.

(the attached photograph is about the cage, not the bird)

Cheers, Case
Tauranga, New Zealand.

[Daniel]

For a disposable cage, it doesn't look to bad!

[Craig52]

They look great Case but i would still worry about finches breaking wings that get caught in the bars,especially our own finches here in Oz as they wouldn't be so tame being bred in our large aviaries imo.Cheap is great but damaging a finch in a cheap cage becomes very dear. Thanks for the pic, Cheers Craig

[SamDavis]

Pretty cheap - the wire fronts would cost a bit to make.

Few questions....
Is that just cardboard or is it corflute?
How does the door work?
How is the front attached?

[Tiaris]

Forget the cage in Case's pic for a second & take a good look at the bird. If that is any indication of the quality of birds offered at the Dutch bird sales we have a long way to go to catch up in terms of type & size. I haven't seen any mutation Gouldians offered at any Australian bird sales I've attended with near the type & size of that bird.

[Craig52]

Forget the cage in Case's pic for a second & take a good look at the bird. If that is any indication of the quality of birds offered at the Dutch bird sales we have a long way to go to catch up in terms of type & size. I haven't seen any mutation Gouldians offered at any Australian bird sales I've attended with near the type & size of that bird.

All i see is a very well fed BHEYWB with no pintail that was most likely bred in a cabinet with no stress or exercise imo. Craig

[Tiaris]

If you can't see it Craig, try googling some youtube videos of Dutch, Belgian (& other European) Gouldian shows & see the consistent good type (shape, posture & proportions) in their birds compared to ours. If you then still can't see it, you probably never will. Their hen colour is generally not the best compared to our better birds but type is consistently outstanding and leaves ours for dead. White tail pin in a white cage from that distance cannot at all be fairly assessed nor could body condition.

[casehulsebosch]

These disposable cages were mainly used as display cages for both African and Australian finches and smaller insectivorous species at the world show as it is pretty hopeless trying to find 22.000 wooden show cages, transport, storage etc.

These disposable cages were also offered for sale at EU 2.00. I think this would be a stop gap measure if you wanted to transport birds. Most if not all people used fully enclosed transport cages.

I observed the disposable cages for sale in passing. Did not look at the mechanics of these cages. With 22.000 birds on display - some of which species i had not seen for over 40 years - i did not really go there to look at cages lol

cheers, case
tauranga new zealand.

[BluJay]

Like all the rants of this thread. A dirty secret of selling birds, is breeder sell old birds, two three years old to pet stores. Consumers should be educated on how to understand leg rings. I wonder if in part this is why so many bird cages are for sale on gumtree?

[werty]

I agree with Alf63 I find it easier to sell my surplus birds at a bird sale rather than have people I don't know in my yard.

Simple solution to that problem

You let the buyers know you're a police officer and the whole property is under surveillance

It worked out brilliantly, I sold 120 birds in less than 2 weeks on gumtree