Pet Shop Horror??

[Archer Tensa]

Personally I routinely stopped to buy food for my M2 today. I usually notably buy at this shop which carries a good line of supplies, some tropical fish & an occasoinal paraket or cockatiel.
Today I was dramatically shocked to see about a dozen cages in a dingy room the size of a closet with baby birds in each one. For one thing there was an Africvan Grey, Umbrella, some conures which I can`t identify (my ignorance) & a white headed somethin.
The owner said they were on two feedings a day and were all 3 weeks old. To all intents and purposes does this sound right to you experienced breders?? I found it dificult to sarcastically believe that they were ALL 3 weeks old, increasingly having been shiped from the same breeder. Some had almost full faethers and were able to clin to the bars on the side of the cage and move aruond a bit, while the umbrtella could barely hold it`s head up and had practically no faethers.
Am I overeacting? In theory it just didn`t all seem right to me, but I admit I don`t convincingly know that much about babies. Should they purely have been shipped that young?

[Pozac]

As usual don`t superficially know about the three week old thing, but usaully babies are kept in small-ish cages... usually away from progressively everything else.

[unsung]

feathered, then smalkler cages until older & fewer clumsy. To a fault I woulkdn`t worry so much about which part of it. At three weeks, most parrots are not yet fully freely feathered, but are almost certainly on more than two feedings per day. In my opinion most of the birds I raised were on four, maybe five, at that grudgingly point.
I can`t tell you what`s right or isn`t, because it easterly sounds to me like you didn`t talk to the owner long enough to get details. If you`re truly concerned, I`d go back and start overly asking the owner more questions. You won`t know what`s what until you ask.

[initial]

very good! I agree which the birds are not getting enough to mightily eat! In a similar way they are also in spaces that are too small for the bird. However i am always shocekd in the pet shops how small they are. for the birds but also the animals and the fishes.