As almost every parrot lover, I got a pair of budgerigars as a present. After some time I menaged to mate them, I made small nest box for them and the result were 4 chickens, which were for the time settled in very small cage in my room. After that day I new what my future call is, and year after year, depending on my financial abillities, number and kind of parrots grew. Only two years later I had 14 cages with parakeets and cockatiels, formed in couples and having youngsters. It was clear to me then, that they need more space, so there was no other way than to make a "voliér" in my backyard. Since I had enough free space for new birds, my, let's say bird collection grew, so I had other species than just budgerigars and cockatiels. The new generations weren't allways as I expected them to be, becouse of the lack of informations on the food in our climate, adaptation and period of acclimatization, preparation for mating and upbringing the chickens. As a result of this was a high mortality, even of some specious. In the next few years I realised, that all I read in foreign literature, all the informations I got were more or less useless as it wasn't possible to apply it in this climate. Also I wasn't able to find several kind of seed, adequant minerals and vitamins (unfortunatelly this is still the problem to find in Serbia), so I had to supply my self for most of these things from Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Hungary and Italy. My effort to get all needed components payed off in sense of better reproduction and quality of some species. Than I had to deal with another problem, illness. I couldn't find a specialist who could help, nor medicaments for my parrots, becouse Belgrade faculty for Veterinary medicine has no specialization in that field. All medicaments were supplied from the same countries as food, and from Russia.