I sold the 2 parent reared yellow Thighed babies today to Roger their new keeper. They were absolutely perfectly well behaved and did not seem to mind the journey at all and was quite inquisitive and not at all frightened once I got them out the flight. Mum and dad looked on as I gathered them up and I think was quite happy knowing they had done a good job rearing them.
This breeding pair has done very well with their 2nd successful clutch of the year, and this was actually the pairs first year together. At the end of last year I unfortunately lost the original cock breeding bird who died of an asmatic attack. For a number of years he suffered in the cold dry weather with occasional attacks and luckily I had always previously managed to catch him in time and help him recover. But last year in late December I arrived back home to find that he had died. By chance a friend had at the same time lost a hen who had escaped from his aviary, so I was very grateful to be given the cock Caique who I put with my widowed hen in January this year. Luckily they took to each other after about a month and had actually produced their first clutch of fertile eggs by March. This I thought was remarkable in the circumstances.
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