we've called the Animal control in her county, Plus I contacted pet finder because she had them on there as well, but they're out of the office until the 15th
and these poor birds are in WORSE condition then I thought - NOT all of them but most of them
I'm in the process of trying to get pics, but with them bieng scared, and just getting here Im only getting a few here and there and letting them calm down and get settled in
but here's what I've seen so far
The Lutino: has a bald spot (from bieng plucked clean) about the size of a quater on the back of her head,its even got fresh blood spots on the flesh) when she stretches the entire back of her neck is compelty bald and it runs down into the "shoulder blades" It is difficult to get pics of BUT i'll keep trying
it is similar to my white face (baby) i'm not sure if i posted pics of her or not - the diffrence is its actually about 4xs worse, and on Baby I can see the stringy( i know its not actually strings) that covers the birds flesh
on this lutino its not there or if it is , its just a tiney amount you can see PURE FLESH ( it is sicking I can't look at her for long)
One of the white face is missing a Toe Nail
another white face - wing was either Cut so far that they cut into the bones, or it got broken off, but it looks freshly done, and where their wings lay flat on to their body when he lifts his wings you can see where the bones sticking out of the wing has rubbed his side RAW! (thats going to be a challenge to get a picture of)
my b/fs dad told him since its only ONE wing they may have cut it on purpose and cut partial bones off so it would never fly again
theres another white face missing some feathers but no where near as bad as the Lutino
I know there is a Feather disease starts with a 'G" that causes them to loose thier feathers, it isn't from pecking - BUT i cant remember what its called, but I'm going to have to look it up and see if this is the problem or IF they were actually plucked
if it is the feather Disease - I cant even use them as breeders - because I was told the disease goes to the chick but kills the babies
I'm so upset, i don't know what to do - I can't stand to look at the lutino right now it just turns my stomach, and the white face with the bones sticking out of the wings I don't know if i should wrap it with somthing so it's side can heal from being rub raw or what
I don't have the moeny to take 8 birds to a vet all at once, SHE never said any had problems - she said they were all perfect feather and healthy!!!!!
We didn't know how bad they really were until we got them home and took them out of the travel cage and put them into the main cage
and they bite SO bad, they made my b/f bleed many times on the way home ( it was a hour drive)
I don't blame them for biting, they're scared, they are breeders who never had any interaction at all
I think i'll just go curl up in bed and cry for them since they can't cry on their own
I've gotten tons of emails withing 2 mins of posting about her on craigslist (thats where i found her) one was from a Rescue asking if i minded giving her the Womans name/where abouts because there has been a woman on C.list "taking in all birds from any where" using different screen names and emails & they've been trying to catch her
So i gave them all the info I had - I only had her 1st name ( but the Animal control ppl knew excatly who we were talking about with just her 1st name they've investigated her before!!) I gave them her "rescues" name, address and phone number & I will give it to any one who asks for it - I don't want any one else duped by her
And they're bieng quartined from the rest of my birds ( i always quartine) and I told my b/f this quaratine will most likely last longer then the normal 30 days I usally do
so that means when we move, They'll either have to be moved 1st or last - and NOT with the rest of my birds - we had a game plan for moving my birds already (because it'll be the first of dec and i'm moving about 10 miles or so from where i live now) but that was discussed before we got these ones, So now we just got to decided which set goes first ( new or old) because all my budgies/ my origonal 4 tiels and my quaker can all be around eachother