Most exotic animals seen on the pet trade

ThylacineAlive said:
I've never had an interest in owning a Cockatiel, so I've never paid attention to their price, but I'm also surprised to see how expensive they are! The cheapest one I could find online was listed for $85, though all others were $100 or over. The most expensive I found was listed for nearly $300!! The most common prices I found were between $150-250.
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I'm pretty shocked at those prices. I just quickly checked TradeMe, which is the New Zealand site for selling and buying stuff. Prices range from NZ$15 up to around NZ$150 (hand-raised young birds at the moment seem to range between about NZ$80 and NZ$150). I'd be expecting to pay around NZ$70 or NZ$80 for a hand-raised cockatiel if I was buying one.

NZ$15 equals about US$10.
NZ$80 to NZ$150 equals about US$50 to US$92
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I've seen lots of odd quails and pheasants listed for sale in the US. Subspecies-level Kalij, Silver, and Copper for instance. Green and Grey Junglefowl and various peacock-pheasant species as well. I've even seen some partridges and grouse listed before.

Omaha has Benson's Quails, though they were frustratingly off-exhibit during my visit due to Burrowing Owl chicks being in the aviary.

~Thylo
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The roadside zoo I went to the other day, Plumpton Park, had two pairs of silver pheasant, which really surprised me. I don't recall seeing them before.
 
birdsandbats said:
I just saw a pair of Edward's Pheasants for sale. I had no idea no idea they were in the private trade! And very cheap, too. A pair was listed at about $75, which is less than half the price of a single Cockatiel at my local Petco!
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Even small roadside pet shops with cages less than a meter cubed have cockatiels sometimes, I'm surprised they're so costly!
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I've never had an interest in owning a Cockatiel, so I've never paid attention to their price, but I'm also surprised to see how expensive they are! The cheapest one I could find online was listed for $85, though all others were $100 or over. The most expensive I found was listed for nearly $300!! The most common prices I found were between $150-250.
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Great Argus said:
I'm not sure why they're so much more expensive than budgies, cockatiels are still pretty common. Most budgies I see are $20-30, far less expensive.
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Those birds are truly expensive! A quick search on a Dutch website yielded one for free and several "regular" cockatiels for 15 euro, which I think ik about 17$. The more expensive and rarer morphs are sold at a wide range of prices, but none over a 100 euro for a pair.

The two budgies that are currently sitting next to me cost me 2 euros (less than 3$) when I bought them eight years ago.
 
A big asterisk here in regards to pricing on the cockatiels, lots of the adds posted up online (especially in the US) are by pet breeders who specifically ask high prices. If you go to a bird mart, or are even moderately "in the know" with local bird circles, you can easily find cockatiels for 40-60 dollars each, or less.
 
Hyak_II said:
A big asterisk here in regards to pricing on the cockatiels, lots of the adds posted up online (especially in the US) are by pet breeders who specifically ask high prices. If you go to a bird mart, or are even moderately "in the know" with local bird circles, you can easily find cockatiels for 40-60 dollars each, or less.
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Do you know how much of a difference hand-raised vs parent-raised makes on pricing?
 
A few notable posts on Exotic Animals for Sale today:
- Chacma Baboon*
- Kusimanse*
- Crab-Eating Macaque

* means it was the first time I've ever seen this species for sale
 
EsserWarrior said:
A few notable posts on Exotic Animals for Sale today:
- Chacma Baboon*
- Kusimanse*
- Crab-Eating Macaque

* means it was the first time I've ever seen this species for sale
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Why anybody would want a baboon for a pet is beyond me... or just for the sake of having something unusual...
 
birdsandbats said:
I remember when I read that there was a reason given for why they are so rare
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Because many of the commercially produced albino alligator offspring have significant health issues due to inbreeding depression. And because the breeders want to maintain the high price.
Leucistic American alligators, on the other hand, are rare because the existing ones are all males from a single clutch. At least that's what I was told back in days...
White alligator is one of rarest in world
 
There is a Michigan facility called CJG Exotics that apparently breeds exotic animals only for other breeders or zoological facilities... and among their animals are sand cats and cuscuses.
 
Coelacanth18 said:
There is a Michigan facility called CJG Exotics that apparently breeds exotic animals only for other breeders or zoological facilities... and among their animals are sand cats and cuscuses.
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Tayra, paca, Kinkajou. They have a lot of listings on the exoticanimalsforsale website, including a female cuscus.

~Thylo
 
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