Baby African Grey Parrots for Sale, Weaned Before They Fly

Meet the Babies in Our Brooder This Month

Six birds are reservable from this clutch, and every baby African Grey parrot for sale on this page is a real bird with a name, a hatch date and a weight chart rather than a stock photograph. Four are Congos and two are Timnehs, they range from three to six months old, and the prices below come straight from our inventory file — no discounts, no sale banners, and no different figure for a cock than for a hen.

Just weaned

Amie

$2,500

Congo · Hen · 3 months

Steady, deliberate, and the first of this clutch to take pellets from a bowl without being shown twice.

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Just weaned

Roys

$2,300

Congo · Cock · 4 months

Busy, food-motivated, and happiest in a kitchen with people moving through it all day.

Ask about Roys →

Fledged

Elad

$1,600

Timneh · Cock · 5 months

Already mimicking the microwave. Timnehs tend to find their voice early, and he is proving it.

Ask about Elad →

Fledged

Evie

$1,500

Timneh · Hen · 6 months

The quietest bird in the room until she decides otherwise. Gentle with hands from week one.

Ask about Evie →

Bonded pair

Jins & Jeni

$3,500

Congo · Cock + Hen · 6 & 4 months

Unrelated, raised side by side, and now inseparable — which is why they leave together or not at all.

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Past baby stage

Bery

$1,700

Congo · Hen · 1 year

No longer a baby, and priced accordingly. Settled, forgiving, and an easier first bird than most chicks.

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Which Babies Are Ready to Go Home Now?

Evie, Elad and Jins have all cleared weaning and could travel this week. Each has been eating unassisted for longer than a fortnight, holding weight through the morning weigh-in, and flying confidently around the fledging room — the three things we insist on before a crate is ever booked.

Which Babies Are Still Weaning?

Amie and Roys are close but not finished, and Jeni goes when Jins goes. We will take a reservation on any of them today and hold the bird until it is genuinely done, which is usually a matter of weeks rather than months.

What "Reserve and Wait" Means for You

A $200 deposit takes the bird off the page and stops us showing it to anyone else. You get photographs as the bird changes, you pay the balance when we confirm the weaning date, and if the bird turns out to need another three weeks then it gets another three weeks. We have never shortened that window to suit a travel booking, and we are not going to start.

Read This Before You Pay a Deposit on Any Baby Grey

Most of what goes wrong when someone buys a baby African Grey parrot goes wrong before any money changes hands, in the gap between what a listing implies and what it actually promises. Here is the short version of everything below, so you can carry it to whichever breeder you end up choosing.

At What Age Should a Baby African Grey Leave Its Breeder?

A baby African Grey should leave its breeder at twelve to sixteen weeks old, fully weaned and eating on its own. Ask that question of ten sellers and you will get answers ranging from six weeks to six months, which tells you the number is not really about the bird — it is about what the seller finds convenient.

Why Twelve to Sixteen Weeks Is the Honest Answer

Avian veterinary guidance on weaning baby parrots states plainly that the profession does not support the sale of unweaned birds, and that hand-feeding belongs with people who already do it daily. A grey reaches independence later than most parrots — the species is famously slow about it — so twelve weeks is the earliest realistic date and sixteen is entirely normal.

What Fledging Has to Happen First

Weaning is not a food event, it is a confidence event. A chick that has never flown has no reason to leave a syringe, because everything it needs still arrives at its beak. Once it can cross a room under its own power, the bowl starts to look interesting.

Why a Grey Must Fly Before It Can Wean

Flight burns energy, and a bird that is burning energy gets hungry between feeds. That hunger is the entire mechanism — it is what makes a chick investigate the food in front of it rather than wait for the next syringe. Clip a baby's wings early, or keep it in a tub past fledging age, and weaning can stall by weeks.

At Week 9: The First Refused Feed

The moment we watch for is unglamorous: a chick that turns its head away from the syringe and goes to look at the bowl instead. Roys did it on day sixty-one. That refusal is the first real signal, and everything after it is a matter of holding our nerve.

What Does "Fully Weaned" Actually Mean?

In our nursery it means fourteen consecutive days of eating unassisted with a stable morning weight, verified on a scale rather than by eye. It does not mean the bird has merely stopped begging for formula, and it does not mean it picks at pellets while still taking two feeds a day. Those distinctions are exactly where buyers get caught.

Why Would Anyone Sell a Six-Week-Old Chick?

Because a six-week-old chick costs the seller ten more weeks of formula, labour and risk that a sold chick does not. Search this page's own keyword and the results at the very top will tell you, in their own words, that they are currently hand-feeding babies in the six-to-eight-week range and taking money for them now.

The Three Reasons a Seller Pulls a Baby Early

The first is cash flow — money today beats money in April. The second is attrition: chicks die, and a chick that has already been paid for becomes somebody else's loss. The third is volume, because a brooder that empties in February can hold the next clutch.

Does an Unweaned Baby Really Bond Harder to You?

No, and this is the most profitable myth in the trade. The pitch is that feeding the bird yourself creates a deeper attachment, which conveniently transfers ten weeks of skilled work onto the buyer while raising the price rather than lowering it.

What Owners Who Tried It Report

Grey owners discussing purchase age on r/AfricanGrey are blunt about it — the most upvoted reply to someone offered a five-week-old chick reads "don't buy an unweaned bird, your bond won't be stronger, there is a ton of risk involved and many view it as unethical." That is not a breeder protecting a margin. That is the people who have already lived it.

What the Avian Veterinary Position Actually Says

The veterinary reading is narrower and colder than the forum one: hand-feeding is a clinical skill with a real complication rate, and handing it to an untrained buyer at the precise moment the bird is also adjusting to a new home compounds two stresses that are each survivable alone.

What Happens to a Baby Grey Pulled Too Early

Three things go wrong often enough to be predictable, and all three are avoidable by simply waiting. Spend an hour in any parrot owners' group and you will find the same posts on repeat — someone holding an eight-week-old, a syringe they were handed at the door, and a question nobody prepared them for.

Crop Burn, Aspiration, and Stalled Weaning

Crop burn comes from formula a few degrees too hot and can open a hole straight through the crop wall. Aspiration comes from formula delivered too fast, going into the airway instead of the crop, and it kills quickly. Stalled weaning is the quiet one — no emergency, just a bird that never quite learns to feed itself.

Why a Nine-Month-Old Can Still Be on Formula

Because weaning is a window rather than a switch, and a bird that misses it does not simply catch up later. One owner in a grey group described a nine-month-old still taking two formula feeds a day, bought at four months and never properly finished. At that stage you are not weaning a baby, you are unpicking a habit.

The Cost of Fixing a Badly Weaned Baby

An avian consultation, a crop culture and a follow-up will comfortably exceed the few hundred dollars that made the cheap bird look attractive, and that is the good outcome. The bad one involves a bird that never reaches a normal adult weight.

From the Nursery: Why We Never Rush a Slow Weaner

Evie was the slowest bird we have raised — she took nearly nineteen weeks and cost us most of a season's patience. She is also the steadiest hand-tame hen currently in the aviary. We have stopped treating slow as a problem to be managed.

Inside Our Nursery: Sixteen Weeks, Feed by Feed

Everything above is easy to claim, so here is ours in the open. This is the room the babies on this page came out of, the routine they were raised on, and the footage to go with it — because "hand-raised" is a word anybody can type and very few will show you.

Weeks One to Three: Brooder, Warmth, and Weight Checks

A chick this young lives in a temperature-controlled brooder and is weighed every morning before its first feed. The scale is the whole diagnostic at this stage — a chick that has not gained overnight tells us something is wrong long before it looks unwell.

This is a chick at pin-feather stage in our own hands — not a bird for sale at this age. A baby at this point is ten to thirteen weeks away from going anywhere.

Weeks Four to Eight: Pin Feathers and Hand-Feeding

Clinical hand-feeding formula guidance puts the daily feed count and the temperature window where we keep ours: feeds drop from five a day toward three as the crop grows, pin feathers break through, and the chick starts to notice the room. This is precisely the age band at which most sellers advertise a baby African Grey parrot for sale as ready to go home. It is not ready.

Weeks Nine to Twelve: Fledging and First Solid Foods

The babies move to a fledging room with low perches and a lot of floor, and they learn to fly badly before they learn to fly well. Chopped vegetables, soaked pellets and millet go down where they can be walked on, sat in and eventually eaten.

Weeks Twelve to Sixteen: Self-Feeding and Socialising

Formula tapers to nothing, and the bird meets the rest of the household — the vacuum, the doorbell, our grandchildren, the cat who has no interest in it whatsoever. A grey that meets ordinary domestic chaos here is far less startled by yours later.

How We Confirm a Baby Is Genuinely Weaned

Fourteen consecutive days of independent eating with a stable morning weight, and no supplementary feeds inside that fortnight. If we break the streak, the streak restarts.

The Weight Log We Keep on Every Chick

Every bird has a running daily weight from hatch to homing, and it travels with the bird when it leaves. Your avian vet will find that chart considerably more useful than anything we could tell you about the bird's temperament.

Weaning Log: Roys, Week 13

Day sixty-one, first refused feed. Day sixty-eight, eating soaked pellets unassisted. Day seventy-four, a twelve-gram dip after a growth spurt that put him back on one evening feed for four days. Day ninety-one, streak complete. That dip is why we do not publish a homecoming date in advance.

How Much Is a Baby African Grey Parrot, Honestly?

A baby African Grey parrot for sale from a documented United States breeder costs between $1,500 and $3,500. Our own birds sit inside that band, the figure depends on subspecies and age rather than on sex, and it is the same number whether you found us this morning or have been reading for a month.

What Each Baby in This Clutch Costs

Evie is our floor at $1,500 and Amie our ceiling at $2,500, with the bonded pair at $3,500 because two birds leave together. Bery, at a year old, is $1,700 — she is past the baby stage, and we would rather say so than quietly describe a yearling as a baby.

Why a Timneh Baby Costs Less Than a Congo

Less demand, not less bird. Congos carry the name most people searched for, so they clear faster and hold a higher price, while Timnehs are smaller, generally calmer and often talking sooner. Our Timneh listing sets the two side by side if you are genuinely undecided.

What the Price Does and Does Not Include

It includes the bird, the DNA certificate, the veterinary health certificate, the hatch record, the closed band, the CITES captive-bred paperwork and the weight chart. It does not include travel, which is $185 or $350, and it does not include a cage — we would rather you chose that yourself than pay us to choose badly.

Deposit, Balance, and Reserving a Weaning Baby

Two hundred dollars holds the bird and comes off the total. The balance falls due when we confirm the weaning date, not before, and the payment method is agreed at reservation. Nobody here will ever ask you to send money by a method that cannot be traced.

Why $850 and $8,500 Are Both Warning Signs

The advertised price of a baby African Grey in the United States currently spans about ten to one, and both ends of that range should slow you down. We went and looked at what is actually being asked, and the spread is not a market — it is two different problems.

What a Bargain-Priced Baby Usually Costs You Later

Screening a chick for beak and feather disease and polyomavirus, sexing it, having a vet examine it and feeding it formula for four months does not leave change out of $850. So a bird at that price has had something removed from it, and the question worth asking is which thing — the testing, the weaning time, or the bird's existence.

Fake Discounts and Sex-Based Pricing

Two patterns turn up constantly and both are tells. The first is the permanent sale, where a bird is "reduced" from $2,900 to $1,800 and has been for as long as the page has existed. The second is charging differently for a cock and a hen, which puts a price on a coin toss.

Why We Charge the Same for a Hen or a Cock

Because sex is settled by a laboratory before the bird is listed, and it has no bearing on what the bird cost us to raise. Evie and Elad are a hen and a cock, four months apart, and the hundred-dollar gap between them is age and nothing else.

Where Our Floor Price Sits, and Why

Our floor is $1,500, and we know how that lands on someone who has read that greys go for six to eight thousand. Owners comparing grey prices on r/parrots describe exactly that trap — one asking why the bird is $5,000 to $6,000 from every breeder they can find, another simply begging for anyone not charging eight grand. The honest answer is that the middle of that range exists. It is just badly advertised.

Can You Buy a Baby African Grey for Under $600?

No, and any listing offering one is telling you something. At $600 nothing on the documentation list has been paid for, so either the bird will not arrive after the deposit, or it will arrive with a history that will not survive being asked about. If your budget is genuinely under a thousand dollars, the right move is to keep saving or to look at a rescue — not to find a cheaper website.

Seven Questions That Expose a Bad Baby-Grey Listing

You do not need to be an expert to sort a real nursery from a photograph farm — you need seven questions and the patience to wait for the answers. Ask a legitimate breeder these and numbers come back within a day. Ask a fraudulent one and the subject changes.

1. What is this bird's hatch date and this morning's weight? A real nursery has both written down.
2. Is it self-feeding yet, and for how many days? "Nearly" and "almost" are answers meaning no.
3. Can I see the bird live on video today, in your hand? Photographs are cheap; a live bird is not.
4. Which laboratory ran the DNA, and can I see the certificate? A laboratory has a name.
5. Which veterinarian signed the health certificate? You should be able to telephone them.
6. What paperwork travels with the bird? Vagueness here is the whole game.
7. What happens if the bird is ill in the first week? If it is not written down, it is not a guarantee.

Ask About Age, Weaning, and Weight First

Those three come first because they are the hardest to fake and the fastest to check. A seller who cannot produce a weight has never kept one, and a nursery that does not weigh its chicks daily is not really running a nursery.

Then Ask About Testing and Paperwork

Owners cataloguing ethical-breeder signals on r/parrots put missing disease testing and absent DNA verification near the top of their list, alongside hidden aviaries and cages nobody is allowed to see. Those items separate a hobbyist with good intentions from an operation with something to hide.

The Question Most Sellers Cannot Answer

"Who were this bird's parents?" A nursery that keeps its own breeding adults can name them without pausing. A reseller who bought the chick in cannot, and will usually answer a slightly different question instead.

Why a Breeder Should Ask About Your Home Too

The most striking thing in those owner threads is what they flag as the single biggest warning sign — a breeder who shows no interest whatsoever in the home the bird is going to. Buyers hunting for a legitimate grey seller on r/AfricanGrey are told, in the top-voted reply, that there are none worth trusting online at all. We do not think that is quite true, but we understand entirely how they got there.

From the Nursery: What We Ask You Before We Sell

Whether anyone is home during the day, whether there are other birds already and when they were last screened, whether the kitchen has non-stick pans in daily use, and who takes the bird if your circumstances change in twenty years. We have declined sales over the answers.

Should Your First Baby Be a Congo or a Timneh?

We raise both, so we have no reason to push you toward either. At four months the difference is already obvious in the hand — the Congo heavier and louder, the Timneh smaller and quicker to imitate — and which of those you want depends far more on your house than on the bird.

The diagram is drawn to scale. The photograph under it is two of our own chicks at fledging age — whichever subspecies you choose, this is roughly what it looks like on the day the weaning clock really starts.

Size, Voice, and Temperament at This Age

A four-month Congo runs 400 to 600 grams with a scarlet tail; a Timneh of the same age is 275 to 375 grams with a darker maroon one and a horn-coloured upper beak. Amie fills a hand at three months. Evie, three months older, does not.

Which Suits a First-Time Owner Better?

Usually the Timneh, for unglamorous reasons — less volume in an apartment, a steadier reaction to household noise, and a tendency to start talking a few months earlier, which keeps a new owner encouraged through the dull stretch. Choose the Congo if you want the headline voice and have the room for it.

Is a Baby Really Better Than Adopting an Adult?

Not always, and we would rather say so here than have you find out afterwards. Ask in any owners' group whether to buy a baby and a substantial number of experienced keepers will tell you to adopt instead — and for a lot of households they are right.

What a Baby Gives You That a Rescue Cannot

A known history, and the whole of it. An African Grey lives 40 to 60 years in good conditions, so a three-month-old is very nearly the entire span — you get the hatch date, the parents, the screening results and the weight chart, and no accumulated fear of hands, brooms or particular voices. For a first-time owner that predictability is worth a great deal, because you are learning the species at the same time the bird is learning you.

When We Tell People to Adopt Instead

When somebody wants a bird that already talks, when the budget is genuinely under a thousand dollars, or when they are away from home ten hours a day. A baby will not fix the third one, and buying under pressure on the second is how people end up on a scam site. Our honest adoption page makes the same argument at more length.

Grown greys, mid-preen, in somebody's front room. This is the outcome an adopted adult can reach as readily as a hand-raised chick — it simply gets there by a different route.

What Happens to the Babies We Do Not Place?

They stay. We have kept birds back for a year rather than send them to a home we had doubts about, and Bery is on this page at twelve months for exactly that reason.

Why an Older Bird Is Sometimes the Easier Start

A yearling has already fledged, already weaned and already met a household, so nothing about its first month with you is developmentally fragile. You trade the blank slate for a bird that is simply harder to get wrong.

Weaning Log: Bery at One Year, and Why She Is Listed Differently

Bery weaned uneventfully at fifteen weeks and then stayed, because the family who reserved her had a change of circumstances. She is a year old, priced below the babies, and we describe her as what she is rather than stretching the word "baby" to cover her.

Every Paper That Travels With Your Baby

Five documents leave with every bird, and they are the reason a documented baby costs more than an undocumented one. None of this is decorative — each item answers a question that somebody, at some point, is going to ask you about your bird.

Hatch Certificate, Band Number, and DNA Result

Federal animal-welfare licensing rules set the standard we are inspected against, and the paperwork follows from it. The hatch certificate ties the baby African Grey parrot to a date and a clutch, the band ties it to this aviary permanently, and the DNA result settles the sex with a laboratory's name attached. Together they make the bird traceable, which is the entire point.

What the Band on Your Baby's Leg Tells You

A closed band goes on while the foot is still small enough to pass through it, which can only happen in the first fortnight of life. That is why it is meaningful evidence of captive breeding — an imported adult bird physically cannot be given one.

That ring on her ankle is the band itself, photographed here in our own hand. She is Evie — the same hen listed further up this page at six months old, which is the shortest way we can show you that a bird and its paperwork started in the same room.

Why We Never Remove a Closed Band

Because removing it destroys the one piece of proof that cannot be reprinted. If a seller offers to take a band off for you, or explains that a bird's band "came off", treat that as the answer to a question you had not yet asked.

The Disease Tests We Run Before a Baby Is Listed

Every chick is screened by PCR for psittacine beak and feather disease and for avian polyomavirus before it appears on this page. Both are diseases that end a young grey, both move through a nursery, and neither is visible by looking at a bird.

PBFD and Polyomavirus PCR Screening

Published research on psittacine circovirus describes a virus that attacks feather follicles and the immune system, with young birds most at risk and no cure once it is established. PCR finds it before symptoms do, which is the only useful time to find it.

Why Testing Matters More in a Nursery Than a Cage

Because chicks share air, surfaces and hands. One untested bird brought into a brooder room can end a whole season, which is why we screen rather than assume, and why we ask what other birds you already keep.

What an Avian Vet Checks Before a Baby Flies

Weight against the chart, crop function, keel condition, vent, eyes, nares and feather quality, plus a listen to the air sacs. The certificate that comes out of it is dated close to travel, because a month-old health certificate describes a month-old bird.

From the Nursery: Our Quarantine Routine

Nothing feathered enters the brooder room without thirty days of separation first, and that includes birds coming back from a show or a vet visit. It is inconvenient, unglamorous, and the reason we have never had an outbreak.

Where Our Babies Hatched, and Who Their Parents Are

Every baby on this page came out of an adult pair we own and keep, which is why we can answer the parentage question without checking. It is also the slowest possible way to run an aviary, and the reason there are six babies here rather than sixty.

The Congo Pairs Behind Amie, Roys, Jins and Jeni

Amie and Roys are siblings out of James and Lois, our steadiest Congo pair. Jins and Jeni are not related to each other at all — they came from separate clutches, were raised alongside one another, and bonded anyway, which is why they are sold together.

Levi and Rily, Our Timneh Pair

Elad and Evie are both out of Levi and Rily. Timneh clutches come around less often here than Congo ones, so when people ask why there are only ever two or three Timnehs listed, that is the reason rather than a sales tactic.

Why We Keep Our Breeding Adults Rather Than Sell Them

Because a pair that stays produces a documented line, and a documented line is what lets us put a hatch certificate in your hand. We do place a proven adult pair occasionally, and those are listed well away from the nursery so nobody confuses the two.

How Many Chicks a Season Actually Produces

Two pairings gave us six birds this season. That is an ordinary result and it is why we cannot promise you a specific bird in a specific month — the clutch decides, not the diary.

Weaning Log: Clutch Notes From This Season

Four Congo chicks and two Timneh out of two pairings, all six weaned without intervention, one growth-spurt dip logged, no crop incidents. That is an ordinary season, and ordinary is exactly what we are aiming for.

Owning a Captive-Bred Baby Grey Under CITES Appendix I

African Greys have been listed on CITES Appendix I since January 2017, and a captive-bred baby African Grey parrot is entirely legal to own and to transfer inside the United States with the right paperwork. Conservation status data for the grey parrot explains why the uplisting happened — wild trapping pressure, not captive breeding. The listing restricts international commercial trade in wild-taken birds; it does not make your baby illegal.

What Appendix I Means for a U.S. Buyer

The CITES appendices themselves set out the distinction, and the practical version for you is short: buy captive-bred, keep the documentation, and a domestic move between states is unremarkable. Our documentation page walks through what each paper does.

Why We Do Not Ship Outside the United States

Because an Appendix I export needs permits at both ends and cannot honestly be promised in twenty-four hours, whatever a competing site tells you. We ship domestically only, and we would rather lose the enquiry than pretend otherwise.

How to Keep Your Paperwork Useful Long-Term

Photograph everything the day it arrives, keep the originals somewhere dry and unremarkable, and give your avian vet a copy at the first appointment. Twenty years from now the band number and the hatch certificate are what will answer questions about this bird.

Flying a Weaned Baby Home — or Driving to Midland

Three ways exist to get a baby from our nursery to your house, and the cheapest one is to come and fetch it. We are in Midland, West Texas, and a surprising number of our buyers turn out to be within a morning's drive.

Airport Pickup and Home Delivery

Airport collection is $185 and puts the bird into your nearest major cargo terminal on a Delta, United or American flight. Home delivery is $350 and a courier hands the bird and the document folder to you at your door. Both travel under IATA live-animal transport standards in an approved crate with water and ventilation.

How a Baby Travels Safely in Cargo

Direct flights wherever one exists, early departures to avoid afternoon heat on the tarmac, a crate the bird has already sat in at home, and a full crop before it leaves us. Most birds are in your hands within four to six hours of the aviary door closing.

Why We Will Not Ship a Baby Still on Formula

Because a bird that needs feeding on a timetable cannot be fed inside a cargo hold, and it arrives hungry, cold and behind on weight. This is the hardest conversation we have with buyers in a hurry, and the answer has never changed.

Collecting Your Baby in Person in West Texas

Collection in Midland is free, and if you are within two to three hours we would genuinely rather you did it — you meet the bird, you see the room it grew up in, and it travels in a car with you instead of in a hold. Experienced owners in buyer forums recommend exactly this wherever the drive is survivable, and they are right.

Your Baby's First Thirty Days at Home

The month after arrival decides more about the next forty years than anything that happens in our nursery. We stay reachable through all of it, because the questions people are embarrassed to ask are almost always the ones worth answering quickly.

Week One: Quiet, Warmth, and Weight

Do very little. Let the bird watch the room, keep it warmer than you think necessary, and weigh it every morning on a kitchen scale. A small drop on day one is ordinary; a drop that keeps going for three days is a telephone call.

Weeks Two to Four: Talking, Toys, and Routine

Greys settle into rhythm rather than novelty, so a predictable morning matters more than an interesting one. Words start arriving once the bird is comfortable enough to be bored, which is usually later than new owners expect and always sooner than they fear.

What to Do If Your Baby Stops Eating

Offer what it ate here first — soaked pellets and warm chop — because a stressed bird returns to a familiar texture before it tries a new one. Telephone us the same day. A young grey has very little reserve, and this is not a thing to sleep on.

When to Call an Avian Vet, and When Not To

Call for fluffed-and-quiet lasting hours, laboured breathing, vomiting, or a weight fall past five percent. Do not panic over a bird that is clumsy, noisy at dawn, or nervous of one particular family member in week one — all three are normal and all three pass.

At Week 3: The Call We Get Most Often

"It was fine, and now it screams when I leave the room." That is a bird that has decided you are its flock, which is good news arriving in an inconvenient form. We talk people through it most months.

Families Who Took Home a Baby From This Nursery

Two buyers from this year, both of whom found us the same way you did. Their words are reproduced exactly as they wrote them.

★★★★★

Rated 5 out of 5

I spent weeks looking for a baby African Grey parrot for sale in California, but I wanted a breeder that truly cared about the birds rather than just making a sale. After finding C.A.Gs, I immediately noticed the difference. They answered every question, shared regular updates, and provided health records before my baby Congo African Grey arrived. The parrot is healthy, confident, and already learning new words. If you're searching for a reputable breeder with beautiful, well-socialized African Greys, I highly recommend C.A.Gs. They made the entire experience smooth and stress-free from start to finish.

★★★★★

Rated 5 out of 5

If you're planning to buy baby Congo African Grey parrots from a breeder you can trust, C.A.Gs is the place to go. My experience exceeded every expectation. Communication was excellent, the bird was healthy and exceptionally well-socialized, and everything promised was included. You can tell they genuinely care about raising intelligent, happy African Grey parrots. My new companion adapted quickly to our family and has already begun mimicking sounds. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend C.A.Gs to anyone looking for a quality baby Congo African Grey with outstanding customer service and ongoing support.

How Our Nursery Stacks Up Against the Listings Beside Us

We looked at what the pages ranking around this one actually advertise, and set it against what we do. Nothing in the left-hand column is invented — it is what those listings say about themselves.

The "fully vaccinated" claim is worth pausing on: there is no routine vaccination programme for companion African Greys in the United States, so a listing advertising one is describing something that does not exist.

More Reading for New Baby-Grey Owners

Four pages worth your time before you commit, each answering a question this one only had room to touch.

How we hand-raise, week by weekThe method behind every bird on this page What a DNA sexing certificate provesAnd why nobody can sex a chick by eye Our written health termsThe 72-hour window, in full The true first-year costBeyond the price of the bird

Baby African Grey Questions New Owners Ask Us

Ten questions we answer most weeks, in the words people actually use when they telephone.

Reserve a Baby African Grey From Our Current Clutch

Tell us which bird caught your eye and something about your household, and we will reply within twenty-four hours — usually sooner. A $200 deposit holds a baby until it is genuinely weaned, however long that takes.