What you can find out in our website
Are macaws and cockatoos good pets?
Yes both macaws and cockatoos are brilliant pets IF their needs are taken into account. One of the most important needs is COMPANIONSHIP. The photo shows our first macaw Amber with her friend Clacks our little sun conure. We bought Clacks specially for Amber so that she would NEVER be alone. For other important needs we will be adding a link here very soon.
What cages do macaws and cockatoos need?
Obviously the bigger the better! Birds love flying and big parrots like macaws need aviaries to be long enough for them to fly. In the photo our macaws are flying in a cage about 25m long, 3m wide and with a pitched roof 2.4m at its lowest. Even pet birds should have a place to go outside to get some sun and walk on ground and preferably fly if their feathers have not been cut. Some people's macaws and other parrots fly free outside and come back when called.
Are macaws and cockatoos destructive?
Macaws can do a lot of damage because they are very busy birds. In the photo our chick Nutt made a hole in the book I was reading while he was busy as my hairdresser! Our young macaws have chewed furniture, electrical wires, and cement between the bricks of our house!
What macaw chicks we have for sale
What galah cockatoo chicks we have for sale
What wild birds live around our house
Or in the case of our barn owls INSIDE our house in the roof!
Where you can watch videos of our macaws
Our macaw chick's joy of flying
Our favorite video. Our macaw chick Gnu shows her joy in 'flying'. It looks as though she is dramatically conducting the orchestra playing the music.
Our scarlet macaw boy and blue and gold macaw girl on their first date!
Will they fall I love?
Our macaw chicks fed by their dad and then by us at 8 weeks
Our macaw dad Havelock feeds his chicks. You then see that the very fist time that we feed those chicks at 8 weeks old they are completely tame.
To see these videos and many more click the link to our Facebook page.
ABOUT US
Julie and Susan from Waterberg Macaws and Cockatoos
We live in the Waterberg mountains in Limpopo, South Africa. We've had macaws and cockatoos and sun conures as pets for about 30 years. Whenever they had chicks we kept them all! A few years ago we started selling our chicks as we couldn't keep any more. And that is why we started this website - to find the best homes possible for them. We love our birds very much and wish for their children to live long, healthy, happy lives with people who also love them.
