joined us in 1994 as a two-week old baby. I had gotten him at a local bird fair, hoping that another bird might be good therapy for Tinker. He was a delight from the start and, in spite of my apprehensions of hand-raising so young a bird, he was extremely easy to raise. I had hand-fed wild baby birds, and it was never as easy as feeding a Quaker. These birds are born to eat!