Conservation Causes
Learn about our mission to support wildlife conservation, sustainable breeding, and preservation efforts through education and ethical partnerships.
1. Conservation through Commercialization
~ Tom Crutchfield
When you have exotic animals that have been historically gathered and sold through wild populations, the best way of combating illegal poaching and importation of those animals is through domestic breeding programs. Breeders and hobbyists who love these species and provide captive-born and bred babies to the public are a wonderful tool to preserve wild populations while increasing those numbers in captivity for the future.
Our menagerie includes parrots, snakes, lizards, tortoises on the exotic side and mini-plush lop rabbits on the domestic side (European import lines and American).
2. The Bird Endowment
Conservation of Blue-throated Macaws through worldwide education and managed habitat reserves in Bolivia. Blue-throated Macaws (BTM) are a beautiful, intelligent macaw species on the smaller end of the spectrum that breed readily in captivity and are making a comeback in the wild — in large part thanks to the Bird Endowment and Nido Adoptivo.
We are blessed to work with this organization and have been given stewardship of a beautiful male and female for the future — breeding and education.
3. The Livestock Conservancy
Dedicated to protecting America's endangered livestock and poultry breeds. For our part, we have chosen to work with both American Chinchilla Rabbits — a large 8–12 lb rabbit on the Watch list with soft fur and a calm, engaging personality — and Pilgrim Geese, who are listed as Threatened.
We have found Pilgrims to be very manageable as flock-raised geese who are calm and quiet (as geese go) and are blessed to hatch out auto-sexed — males are white, females are grey.