First years as bird keeper .....

I was a lot different as I did not get to keep birds untill I was in my 50's & got my own home so most of my early Avian experience was with wildbirds including a fair bit of Conservation work . But I have always been interested in birds & although my father had been a Budgie man before mother arrived on scene , she would not let me have any , and after leaving home I lived in NHS staff quarters/rented accomadation so keeping birds was not possible until I got my own place.


(originally replying to Dom in another subject)

First cage birds back in 1969 ...... anybody go back further than that?

I was born in 1958 started keeping birds when i was 14 years old.=1972  Foreign finches.

In my earlier post I'd forgotten that my 1st experience of rearing birds was with Domestic Poultry back in 64 when I spent the summer with an Aunt & Uncle on their farm in the midlands and was given the task of feeding & watering 100 day old chicks