Precocious Baby Senegal

About two weeks ago we brought in a couple of new birds to the nursery - a baby Greenwing Macaw, an Eleanora Cockatoo named Zuzu and a baby Senegal. We think about our baby birdies and the early development stages they go through akin to what human babies go through from total dependence, tracking objects, mobility, learning commands/recognizing words, etc.

Jeremy and I have both been amazed at just how alert and precocious the baby Senegal is - we both agree this is a VERY smart bird... not to mention cute. We just know that this baby will enrich some lucky families life.

I captured two short video clips of baby Senegal, aka 'Bruiser' as the operating name, compliments of Jeremy. The first clip was taken on the day Bruiser arrived at the nursery (4.5 weeks old) and the second video was taken today, 5/10 (6 weeks and a few days old). Enjoy!

Cute baby, wouldn't you agree?

Elena
Beaker's Co-flock Leader
AvianOutfitters.com (online store)

Is baby Greenwing a boy... or a girl? Let the credit card test decide

Yesterday, two families came to visit their babies for the first time - Lori and Greg came to meet ZuZu, their baby Eleanora Cockatoo (pictures below) and the Bianchi family came to meet their new baby - a Greeenwing Macaw (video below).

Baby Eleanora Cockatoo - ZuZu
50 days old

Now for baby GW - Many of our customers want to know the sex of their babies... and for others it doesn't matter. Jeremy heard about an 'informal' DNA sex test that has proven to be spot on for us almost 100% of the time. Check out this video of baby Greenwing - the first part is baby's arrival to the nursery followed by the family's first visit and the 'informal' DNA sex test.

If you are interested in the outcome of the test, you will need to check back for another blog posting to find out. We need to wait for enough feathers to come in (we chose feather vs blood testing) before we have the test conducted. Enjoy the video!

Elena
Beaker's Co-flock Leader
Rosie's AvianOutfitters.com (online Store)

We're singing the "Happy Trails" song again

Over the past week (ish) Jeremy and I have said "Happy Trails" to three more babies... And, we are thrilled they have found wonderful families.

We get emails all the time about how baby did this and baby did that. One of our babies, rides on a motorcycle, another uses the toilet by himself and walks down the hall to check out what mom is fixing for breakfast, and another does gardening with mommy! We just love to hear these stories.

In this posting we celebrate three SWEET babies - in order of leaving we have: Anuli (Timneh African Grey), Layla (Congo African Grey) and Starbuck (Timneh African Grey). Here they are...

Kristi Ann and Teyanna with Anuli
4/23/2010


The Carter Family and Layla
4/24/2010

Mark and Starbuck
4/28/2010

Congratulations moms and dads and kids!

Elena
Co-flock Leader
AvianOutfitters.com (online store)