When you don't know their hatch date...

[Rrrma]

what do you celebrate?

 

All 3 of my parrots are rescue/rehomes and only recently did I finally locate 1 of their breeders. She was able to pull her paperwork and find Rosie's hatch date(Vos eclectus, 3/1/01).

 

Hardy(LCA) was wild caught, so I have no earthly idea how old he is or even when exactly he was caught. I know the lady I got him from had had him and his mate since 99 and she said the breeder she took them from had had them about 8 years. If he really was imported before they changed the laws, he would have been in captivity for a minimum of 18 years, but likely he has been in it longer. He does have a leg band, but I doubt I'll get much from it as they supposedly have destroyed most of the import records by now.

 

Norma(CAG) was born to a breeder to keep as a pet and not banded. Supposedly she is 13-14, but I doubt I will ever know for sure.

 

I decided to celebrate their adoption days, since I figured I'd never know for sure.

 

What do you do?

[Partner316]

I don't know much about my greys past. I just go by what I was told about him from the pet store. As far as I know he is right around 4 or 5 years old. So I just considered him a year older on the date of purchase. I bought him May 5th of 2009. So that's pretty much the date I use.

[Rrrma]

Does he have a legband that you could trace? I finally traced the one on my Rosie about a month or so ago.

[Luvparrots]

I have a re-homed ekkie that was found and taken to a local pet store where he was for 7 1/2 years before I got him a year and a half ago. He has no band and was terrible plucked when found so I assume he is at least 10 years old and probably at least a couple of years more because of the horrible plucking. He acts like he is older than the hills. I wish I knew more about him as he has some issues that are very sad. I have chosen his purchase date as his day of celebration as that is the date of his new beginning.

[Partner316]

Nope my grey doesn't have a leg band so I am somewhat stuck as to finding out much more than what I know but I like what luvparrots said. May 5th was his new beginning.

[jessdecutie18]

I know Yoshi's hatchdate but I'd imagine the date I purchased my little guy would be the date I'd celebrate if I was in that situation. Then again... don't we celebrate our spoilt little fids EVERY day!? lol! Yoshi thinks at least one day a week is her birthday, like how yesterday she got macaroni and chicken from my husband's plate, and egg from my plate for dinner. Then she had a grape. Then she had an animal cracker. Some days she is very spoilt But very happy!

[Cheshire Cat]

I was actually talking to my mom about this a few days ago. I don't know Tui's hatch date either. But we got her on 3rd June 2010 so that will be our 'anniversary' date. Not her hatch date, but it's still special to us.