Welcome to my website! My name is Sam Gibbs and I keep and breed Agapornis personatus, also known as Masked Lovebirds. I'm an English guy who now lives in the Netherlands with my wife Marlous and our three dogs! This website will provide information about me and my birds and i'll try my best to keep it updated. A Dutch version will be online one day, when I find some time to finish the English version!

If you have any questions then feel feel to contact me! If you are interested in buying birds from me then send me an email to see what I have available. I don't always have time to add the birds for sale onto the website. If you ever want to come and visit me and my birds then you are always welcome, get in contact to arrange a time! Enjoy the website :)

I now live in a little town called Waalre, near Eindhoven. I spent numerous years completing a fisheries study course, covering a broad wage of fish husbandry sectors including fish health and welfare, fish farming, water quality and aquatic ecology. I have worked with fish my whole life, ranging from trout and cyprinid farming, to river keeping and sport fishery management. In the years before I moved to the Netherlands I began specialising in Koi carp and other ornamental fish, managing a large Koi import dealer in the UK. I now live in the Netherlands and own my own company called Koi Service, specialising in the health and welfare of Koi carp and other pond/aquarium fish. I do house to house visits for diagnosis and analysis, aswell as maintanence and installation work. I also offer support and health checks for various Koi dealers in the the Netherlands and Belgium. You can check out my website here: http://www.koiservice.nl

It actually started a long time ago when I was younger. My grandparents kept Agapornis roseicollis (Peachfaced Lovebirds). Just like many other hobbyists, they started with one tame pair and it progressed from there. Aswell as numerous tame birds inside, they had a large wooden aviary outside with a night shelter and around 8 pairs of breeding birds. I never forgot these birds and was always fascinated by them. Many years later I find myself persuading my wife to let me get a lovebird. It all began with a blue personatus called Zippy. She is a lovely bird, and was very tame for a long time although due to a lack of time she became wild. A short period later and I got her a friend, a SF violet blue personatus called Ozzy, he was silly tame, and stayed tame until he sadly passed away in 2010. He would fly to me when I called him, step onto my finger and allow me to scratch him - i've never known a bird with such a character! Anyway, time passed by and they eventually started making their own family and I guess the rest is history! I only keep and breed personatus, and I'm very interested in all things genetic, feather structure, inheritance etc. I breed birds purely based around quality as opposed to quantity. I currently have around 35 birds and I am concentrating on the dominant edged mutation and wildcolour green.

Another thing that takes alot of my time are our dogs. We have 3 dogs and they keep us busy. Our first dog was Maddox, he was a rescue dog, and we believe he was originally from a shelter in Spain. We are not sure what he is, but we believe he is a Bodeguero, a Spanish breed similar in appearance to a fox terrier kind of jack russel thing haha! He's now around 4-5 years old and had suffered a life time of abuse and neglect. Needless to say he is often extremely hard work, but the blood, sweat and tears Marlous has put into the dog clearly shows. It's beyond belief the changes we have seen in Maddox over the past 3 years. The bond he has with Marlous is fantastic. Our other dog is called Cheeky. We had her as a tiny puppy and she is a Border Collie x Golden Retriever who was born on May 10th 2008. She's a great dog, very loving and loyal and she loves a bit of fuss! Our 3rd dog is a red-tri Border Collie called Diva. She was born 20th September 2009 and is a fanstic dog. We do obedience and agility with all of our dogs, although Maddox has now stopped as it gets a bit much for him sometimes. Cheeky loves agility, she's in heaven when weaving through poles or diving through tunnels!

My other interestes are fishing, I always been a keen angler and always will. Nothing relaxes me more! I also like computers, whether it's modding, building, repairing or overclocking. I like online gaming, it's actually how I met Marlous, on an online game (yep, shocking!) I also enjoy messing around with websites and photoshop etc. I have a love for cars, tuning and drag racing etc, I was a proper petrol head but that kind of stopped when I sold my car to move to the Netherlands - it's something I'll get back into when the time is right.