Mad About Feathers Australia

20/07/2024

We haven't shared these guys before as they are a rescue pair that was given to us nearly 2 years ago.

They we're plucked worse than this and barly had a feather on either of them, We have managed to helped them to grow back a lot of their feathers and get them out of their habit of plucking by way of enrichment and a mixed species aviary so they can socialise with other birds.
The bald parts unfortunately won't grow back as they look to have damaged the follicles.
They are currently trying to steal the nest box we have just built for our Blue & Gold macaws 🤣🤣

All we have left to do is stop them sitting in the nest box's 🤦‍♂️

18/06/2024

🔊🔊Public service announcement 🔊🔊

This season Raven decided she wanted to pair up the mutation conures so who knows what colors we will end up with 🤷‍♂️😂😂

Here you can see Raven hard at work and recording the pairings in her book to give to her mummy and daddy on the weekend

13/06/2024

One of our latest additions, Jenday Conures.
It's hard to find such good-looking jendays now days.

Aratinga Jandaya

09/06/2024

These 2 are just so photogenic.
Our Gold Capped Conure Pair. 🥰

08/06/2024

We have been very quiet over the last couple months, as Shantel and I would like to welcome our latest addition.

Andora she is nearly a week old now and just an absolute joy and just perfect.

29/02/2024

We havent been very active for a while now due to preparing for our wedding!

Can finally say that we got married!!

So over the next few weeks we will slowly start getting back into our game and showing our birds and their antics as well as all babies we have left available

Thank you everyone for being patient and understanding. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

31/01/2024

Beautiful parent raised Blue Moustache on the wire.

Parents have done amazing with this bub this year.

10/01/2024

We just put up the post about the Lineolated parrots the other day and 2 days ago we found that we have 2 babies hatch!

Superproud and excited!! Fingers crossed they go well and we get them on the perch.

04/01/2024

LINEOLATED PARAKEET
One of the smallest birds we own is the Lineolated Parakeet is also know as the Barred Parakeet

SUB-SPECIES
Their are 2 known sub-species
1, Bolborhynchus lineola lineola
(South Mexico to West Panama)
2, Bolborhynchus lineola tigrinus
(North West Venezuela and from Columbia to Peru)]
Both sub-Species look almost identical, the Tigrinus sub-Species is a darker green and has stronger black barring
They are a Cities 2 listed species and found in several locations near the coast in Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Columbia & Peru

SIZE
Their average size is around 16cm from head to tip of tail and they weigh around 42g-52g

HOUSUNG
We house our pairs in suspended aviaries measuring 900 x 900 x 2400 long with a 900 solid devider at the back for privacy when breeding and 900 double wire at the front so they can still socialise as theor a sociable species

FEEDING
We feed them a mix of seeds we mix our selves consisting of
1/4 Canary mix
1/4 Small parrot mix
2/4 Budgie mix
1/4 cup fresh sprouts daily
1/4 cup fresh chop mix (fruits and vedge with lots of greens)

BREEDING
They breed in the dry seasons in the wild but in Captivity here in Queensland we have found they generally start to go down around July - December for us

NEST BOX SIZE
160mm x 160mm x 250mm high (we are planing on experimenting with a new box design soon so we will do a update post with pics when we have one made

😍

02/01/2024

We will be there

31/12/2023

Happy New Year 🎊

30/12/2023

Blue Moustache Parrots.

We have a couple baby DNA'd hens left.

30/12/2023

Well it was a busy day for us
First Shantel fed the baby's being Hand Raised than we fed all the other birds their sprouts than Mark got all his chainsaw gear ready and trimming gardening tools and we went off to help a fellow Aviculturist clean up some gum trees that had fallen in the Christmas eve storm and a friend of theirs

While cutting up these large gum trees we decided to load the Ute with some fresh perches for the birds

28/12/2023

2 amazing one of a like art works we now own
The first one is a painting of a pair of Greater Patagonian Conures painted my Sanchez (I won a raffle at a convention and the first prize was a Commissioned painting of my choice)
www.tonysanchezart.com

The 2nd is a painting of 4 Double Factor Violet Turquoise Green-Cheek Conures painted by the very talented Allison Baird and was given to me as a gift for Christmas by my amazing Fiance and children this Christmas
Customized Art by Ally

26/12/2023

One of our Peach Front Conure pairs, still going great despite the storms.

Everyone is happy, and safe here!

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas from Our Family to yours!!

We hope you all stay safe and have a great holiday time!

15/12/2023

Gold Capped Conures. Checking out their box....

10/12/2023

Nox and his girlfriend in the back. She is camera shy 🤭

Nox is the son of Shantel's first Hahn's Macaw Yoshi. Who she eventually based an entire business around while living in Sydney.
The business is still running successfully this day by one of her best friends Deanne.

Hopefully we can produce more stunner like Nox and Yoshi over the coming years.

08/12/2023

Violet babies! Gabby sure takes some stunning photos

greencheek

08/12/2023

Young Rose Crown Conure

rosecrown

07/12/2023

High Red Pineapples. I love the amount of red!!

07/12/2023

More of the Firey Shouldered Conures!!

06/12/2023

Our Stunning Firey Shouldered Conures

06/12/2023

Pineapple and Double Factor Violet Turquoise Green Cheek Boys playing around.

04/12/2023

Te blue in one of our Crimson Bellied Conures is just stunning!!

04/12/2023

Cinnamon Crimson Bellied Conures

03/12/2023