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Dear Sirs,
A couple of years ago, I purchased a Buddy II for one of my friends
who has a large private collection of exotic birds. His major
interest lies in breeding endangered species in captivity and your
device was instrumental in bringing one of his best successes to
date: the birth of two extremely rare St Vincent Parrots. Mr Quinque
is a member of the St Vincent Parrot Consortium and was loaned by the
St Vincent Government one female and three males in order to try to
breed them abroad and try to create a viable safety group outside of
the small and fragile island of St Vincent, their only abode.
The parrots are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity with
efforts in the last thirty years by the more than ten members of the
consortium bringing only a handful of chicks.
The one breeding couple gave three fertile eggs which were carefully
monitored by the Buddy II which soon confirmed they were all fertile,
a rare event in itself. The Buddy II gave reassuring readings
throughout the incubation but most importantly, told Mr Quinque
exactly when the chicks were due to hatch. This was critical as the
three were much too weak to break out of their eggs and the shells
had to be broken manually and chicks very carefully extracted over a
period of more than 24 hours. One died at that time but the other two
survived and have grown from 16 grams at birth to 300 grams one month
later, date of the picture. They're still not out of the woods, but
your machine did give them a starting chance.
Yours sincerely.
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