Lack of awareness on the part of consumers, coupled with inadequate law enforcement measures to protect captive birds, have allowed low welfare bird breeding facilities to become firmly established.
Industrialized operations often house hundreds of birds in rows of barren cages, depriving these social and intelligent creatures of enrichment or interaction. Even some hobby breeders are cause for concern, due to their often limited knowledge about birds' needs and their interest in profiting from a sale, which can override considerations for bird welfare.
Furthermore, with the convenience of the Internet as a means to buy and sell birds, badly managed breeding facilities masked by online venues can proliferate unchecked. To increase productivity, breeders sometimes remove eggs or newly hatched birds from their parents, which encourages those parents to produce more offspring.
The unweaned hatchlings are hand-reared by humans and—to reduce breeders' costs—are often sold to pet stores, where they are frequently fed by inexperienced staff. Though stores may provide some training for prospective owners on the hand-feeding process, birds can suffer serious injuries, such as crop burns, infections, drowning and starvation, if feeding is done improperly. Breeders and pet stores falsely market these hand-reared birds as friendlier and better able to bond with humans as a result of early exposure.
However, removing a fledgling from his or her parents is inhumane; in the wild, baby parrots stay with their parents for months. Go flip them birds, I see police down the block. The block is hot homie, flip them birds. Get clapping man I see cops, go flipping birds. The act of rotating an avian creature through more than 90 degrees. The act of extending the central digit of the hand with the intent to cause offense. I shall have that cunt, he is dead.
A variation of giving someone "the finger", where the middle digit is fully extended and the remaining fingers are bent at the middle knuckle. An advanced maneuver, the extra manual dexterity required is meant to indicate extreme displeasure with the party on the receiving end of the gesture.
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