Wing and A
Prayer Aviary Home of Celestial
Cockatiels is a family run aviary,
owned by Lisa and Mike Grimes. We
are located
in Lawrenceville, Illinois and
specialize in show quality
cockatiels and pyrrhura (greencheek)
conures. All of our babies our
handfed with the utmost care and are
well socialized. We cater, not only
to the personal pet owner, but
to breeders and exhibitors, as
well.
We believe in allowing our birds to
be in the most natural environment
we can provide. When not in a
breeding setting, our birds are
placed in a flight. Our flights
are adorned with tree branches,
wooden perches, natural light,
and healthy food options for the
birds to choose from.
We established our aviary in 2001
and have continued to work to
improve our methods, as well as our
knowledge. It is our desire to
breed, healthy, beautiful birds with
sweet, loving, handleable personalities.
This means taking time with each and
every baby we hand feed and meeting
the nutritional needs of our parent
birds.
In addition to our cockatiels we
also raise and nurture several
mutations of the pyrruha conures.
These include Pineapples, cinnamons
and yellow-sides. Our greencheeks
have a room all to themselves as
they like their privacy. When babies
are pulled at two weeks of age we
take the utmost care in providing
not only their nutritional needs,
but lots of love and cuddle time.
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Yellowside Greencheeks
Our owner, Lisa Grimes, is a mother of
three who is active in her church and in
love with life! She is a current member
of
NCS
(The National Cockatiel Society) and is
the current president of
MWBBE
(Midwest Bird Breeders and Exhibitors).
She is also a member of the AFA
(American Federation of Aviculture).
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Lisa
with her daughter, Jennifer
Lisa
is currently a Novice Exhibitor and
has won numerous ribbons and
plaques. Lisa has been showing for
four years. Her first year, one of
her birds place "Best in Show"
Novice Division, and just last
year, one of Lisa's birds was
awarded "Champion" status in the
Advanced Division.
Lisa's daughter, Jennifer Moye,
recently joined NCS (National
Cockatiel Society), and after
receiving "Beethoven," from fellow
breeder, Alex Centner, she has set
up her first pair of cockatiels and
has her first sets of babies, as
of July 2008!Jennifer's first
showing was Neenah, WI, Labor Day
Weekend. Check back for show
results!
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Darlene
Hershey at Southeast
Tennessee Aviculture
Society Show
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Darlene Hershey is our
Aviary Assistant. Darlene
helps with the general care
and cleaning of the aviary.
She also has several pairs
of cockatiels who live in
our aviary and has been
breeding as of late. Her
other bird interests
include: English Budgies ,
Bourkes and Finches. She is
an irreplaceable asset to
our aviary. Darlene became a
member of the National
Cockatiel Society last fall
and has been attending
shows with Lisa since Fall
of 2007. |
Our desire is to place
each and every baby we sell into
loving and caring homes. We work to
educate every customer as they need.
It is not necessary to be an
exhibitor to purchase our birds.
All we ask is that you care for them
and give them a loving home.
