West Branch Aviary

11/12/2025

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10/28/2025

It’s fall yall!!! 🎃

It is also the end of baby season, so like many others, we don’t have many babies this time of the year. We should have some African Greys available in the few weeks and we will be taking deposits on them once we pull them from the nest.

Right now, we have one little Jenday conure who we just weaned and is looking for a good home. He’s such a character!!!!

We also have a few pairs of Indian ringnecks that we put together in the spring. I priced them low (since I could use the cage space) and you’ll be getting a pretty good deal for disease tested birds.

🧡 Jenday Conure - $750

💜 IRN Pairs: $1200 per pair

🩶 Grey x White 🤍
💚 Pallid Green x Olive Green 💚
🩵 Pallid Blue x Blue 💙

09/29/2025

I love this phase when they start getting their feathers in, but still look like awkward little floofs!

Our little Jenday Conure will be ready in about 4ish weeks

09/29/2025

Our little Opaline Black-capped conure is starting to get curious and learn to climb. It won’t be long now before he’s ready for his next big adventure!

09/18/2025

This little boy is looking for a great home. He’s friendly and outgoing, great with our other birds, and very independent.

Disease and DNA tested

$5800

09/11/2025

Baby birds have the cutest little chubby faces 🥰

This little Jenday Conure and Voren’s Black Capped conure baby are available. We are accepting deposits to reserve. They both should be weaned and ready to come home in about 10ish weeks! :)

08/24/2025

08/10/2025

This is why we have a closed aviary and do not allow visitors.

WHY BIRD BREEDING FACILITIES DO NOT ALLOW VISITORS
Author : Laurella Desborough

When you look at this photo, you are looking at a dead baby eclectus parrot, a baby which was healthy, normal and alive a few hours ago. What happened? An unauthorized person entered the building and walked past the flight housing a pair of vosmaeri with new chicks in the nest.

Most parrots are quite sensitive to intrusions into the area around their nest sites. Depending on the individual birds or the pair, the consequences can be fatal to chicks in the nest and even to the female parrot brooding the chicks, especially if the birds are cockatoos. Male cockatoos will not only kill the chicks but also the brooding female of the pair.

This is something that the average person does not realize. Even individuals who own pet parrots or other birds do not realize the seriousness of entering the area where parrots are nesting. These intrusions by strangers cause extreme stress for the parent birds, stress so severe that hens will purposefully kill chicks or inadvertently kill them during their rush back into the nest area.

This issue of stressed parent birds is the main reason that most serious knowledgeable professionals who breed parrots or other non-domesticated exotic species will not allow strangers to enter the breeding area. That is the main reason that inspection programs like the Model Aviculture Program, make a point of recommending against inspections during breeding season. Even the slightest intrusion can be devastating for nesting birds. Sometimes even a strange yard worker or electrician or noisy neighbor at a distance can be sufficient to cause extreme stress to nesting parrots or other exotic avian species.

08/03/2025

We have a cute little floof ball that is available for the perfect home.

This little Congo African Grey baby is only about 5 weeks old now and we will be handfeeding it for the next couple months.

We are accepting deposits on this little one, which is great for those of you who have asked me about taking payments.

It will be 50% to reserve and the balance can be paid along the the next several weeks while this little one learns to eat solids.

07/15/2025

Our Major Mitchell’s cockatoos babies took a bath today and are a little soggy, but we took new photos 🙂

Both boys are available, but still being handfed so we are just taking deposits to reserve.