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Wool-N-Wings

This site last updated 10/14/2004

Parrots
We have been breeding parrots since 1984. We breed Congo African Greys, Blue and Gold Macaws, Greenwing Macaws, Ruby Macaws, Military Macaws, Illiger Mini Macaws, Hahns Mini Macaws, Umbrella Cockatoos and Moluccan Cockatoos. I've been breeding and raising birds most of my life (pigeons, pheasants, quail, falcons), but Janet has the parrot experience. She was the nursery supervisor for one of the largest parrot breeding facilities in the world, and has hand raised literally thousands of baby parrots from tiels to macaws. We sell most of our parrots direct to people over the internet.

The summer of '96 found us expanding our bird collection and our breeding facilities, as we spent several months building a new 40'x48' barn to house our collection in. Thanks to the 35+ people who gave up some of their weekends to help us. Janet came up with a great design where inside the barn, there is an interior wall that is in the shape of a U (if you were looking down on it from the top of the barn). The breeding cages are placed around the outside of the U and the nestboxes are placed around the inside of the U. A hole cut in the wall allows the birds to go from their cages to the nestboxes. This allows us to keep the nestbox area quiet and dark, while allowing us to quickly check the nestboxes with minimal disturbance to the birds.

Llamas
We have also been raising llamas for many years. Janet got her first llama in 1979, and has been in love with them ever since. We raise them out of the sheer (no pun intended) joy of having these wonderful animals around. Currently we have 21 llamas in our pastures.

Our breeding program is driven by a desire to preserve the pure llama line. We are breeding for Tapada Llamas. We strive for conformation, size, wool and looks (in that order). All of our llamas are descendents of the original Hearst llamas. Our 2 foundation females are descendents of Jerry Berman's herd, and our stud males trace their heritage back to Harold Via's herd.

One of our goals is to preserve the size and function of the original llama. Toward that end, we constantly strive to breed large llamas, even though they might not be as fashionable as the "cute fuzzy little ones". One thing that we do to help preserve size is to not breed our females before they are 2.5 - 3 yrs old. You don't build your herd quite as fast this way, but we believe you end up with larger, stronger, healthier babies in the end. Another goal we have is to offer reasonable stud service. Our stud fees start at $300.

Llama Pictures	Bird Pictures	Barn Pictures	Videos
A baby cria	Greenwing Macaws	Outside of the barn	Baby Greenwing Macaws
Part of our herd	Blue and Gold Macaws	Nestboxes
A llama giving birth	Illiger Mini Macaw	Breeding cages
Our first stud	Umbrella Cockatoo	Baby parrot nursery
Another baby cria	Military Macaw
	Eclectus Females

Other Sites of Interest last updated 4/16/2004 Llama sites Bird/Parrot sites Bird Breeder Resources