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Aaron accepts the challenge of the generations

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Can you tell me a bit about your birdkeeping history?

I AM the fourth generation that has kept budgies in my family. My great-grandfather first got into the hobby when he was a young man. He actually made his breeding cages during his lunch break, from old tea chests that he got from Harland & Wolff, the shipbuilders, where he worked. Subsequently he had to give up the hobby due to

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