Please note: We like to try to help whenever we can, so if you have questions for us, please call. Complicated issues such as which type of bird is the right one, behavioural problems, breeding issues, etc. are best discussed on the phone. We're usually behind in answering our emails, but if you phone, we can usually help you right away. Thank you very much.
Phone: 905-772-3101 (call this number first, and if we don't answer, please leave a message))
Cell Phone: 905-515-6146 (use this only if it is an emergency)
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Hours (new!): We groom birds on weekend mornings (both Saturday and Sunday). We have people call at 8 a.m. on the morning of the day they want to come, and we make the appointments 20 minutes to half an hour apart, starting at 10 a.m. We usually let people watch while we work, but due to Covid-19, we're having customers bring their bird in a carrier, and sit it down part way to the door. Mike brings it into the house, and back out to you when we're done. If necessary, we can arrange for an alternate appointment time on a weekday morning.
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Location: Parrot Farm is located an hour southwest of Toronto, and 25 minutes south of Hamilton, on the west side of Highway #56, one kilometer north of the intersection of Empire Corners. See map below for our approximate location, or for best directions, type Parrot Farm in Google Maps. **GPS units sometimes do not convey our location accurately. |
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Hi, we'd like to introduce ourselves.......Debbie Kinloch and Mike Csorbay are the (partly) retired owners of a parrot breeding aviary in Southern Ontario, Canada, called Parrot Farm. Situated on a 95-acre farm, we bred parrots for over 30 years, but retired from the breeding aspect of the business in 2019. Currently, we continue to provide boarding services, parrot grooming (wing, beak and nail trimming), as well as taking samples for DNA sexing, but we no longer have any birds for sale.
A lot of people have asked us, "How'd you get started doing this?"
Debbie has been involved with birds for many years, having owned a Budgie as a child, and being an avid bird watcher and nature lover. She went to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and graduated with a degree in Biology, and at the time had an Indian Ring-necked Parakeet firmly rooted to her shoulder. After a few years in Colorado, where she worked in animal-related jobs and dabbled in breeding parrots, she came to Canada with her two pet birds, where she started breeding Canaries, Budgies, Cockatiels, and Lovebirds in her home in Hamilton, Ontario. After moving to the farm in 1985, she started an aviary with a more diverse set-up, which housed over 50 breeding pairs of a variety of parrot family members.
Mike (fortunately) is an animal lover too. Born and raised in Ontario, his family had Budgies, a Cockatiel, an African Grey, and a disabled Blue Jay while he was growing up. He enjoyed feeding the baby parrots, and adopted a family of cats and kittens, who were his constant companions, while working with the birds in the aviary.
Mike and Debbie have many interests outside of aviculture. Mike metal detects, and we both collect insulators, and plants (and birds 🙂) and rocks and things. Debbie likes nature and weather phenomenon, and has taken some photographs of lightning, aurora borealis, meteors and comets. If you'd like to see some of her photos, please check out her Photo Page.
Parrots
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This website was designed and authored by
Debbie Kinloch and Mike Csorbay on their iMac,
and was first posted in late August, 2000.
Parrots Canada logo designed by Debbie Kinloch.
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