Bird Cages

It’s an avian adventure cage, not cheap, but something is wrong with the castors that they keep coming out. Actually only one or two do, the others are fine. Any ideas on how I could make them stay in?

a good glue will do it, or a couple of screws and if all else fails, duct tape.

I have a 4 year old female Blue Fronted Amazon parrot. I used to let her out of her cage to play for about 2 hours a day. We just got a new puppy, and in lieu of locking him up all that time, I have cut my parrot’s freetime down to 1 hour a day. Is this going to hurt her?

At the very least, she will be upset with you. If she has bonded to you, she will likely show signs of jealousy that can lead to screaming, plucking or other undesirable behaviors.

Also, your amazon really needs more than one hour out of the cage each day. Granted, some days you might not be able to let her out for very long, but do try to let her out as much as possible. My babies are out of the cage whenever someone is home and awake.

Birds and dogs can co-exist in the same house, just never leave them together unsupervised. My daughter recently brought home a rat terrier/brittany spaniel mixed puppy. The only change I had to make was to raise one of my macaw’s perches a few inches. The puppy thinks those beautiful long tail feathers should be toys.

You can also put them in seperate rooms and get a children’s safety gate to keep the puppy out without totally closing your bird off to family activities.

I have a year old cockatiel and want to get another bird to keep him company and i do like quaker parrots and i was wondering if i got a baby quaker would it be ok in the cage with the cockatiel as it is a very big cage?

If you want to get a bird, for your bird – get it a cockatiel. If you want another species – you’re getting it for you.

Mixing hookbill species in any cage is never recommended, unless the birds are completely bonded, and non-aggressive – first. Even then, you may have territorial disputes later, due to hormones.

Cockatiel or Quaker, the new bird should have it’s own cage.

New birds should always be vet checked and quarantined for at least 30-45 days – away from your current bird.

Please don’t buy your new bird from a pet store, especially if you’re in the US. Petsmart isn’t selling birds, due to a psitticosis outbreak.

Pet stores get their pets from huge breeding mills. All of the 775 Petsmart stores buy their birds from one vendor in Florida (the source of the outbreak), as do many other large and small pet stores.

Please don’t support breeding mills – avoid pet stores who sell live animals. Find a good breeder, or adopt from a rescue or humane society.

Other good sources on the web are craigslist and petfinders. Don’t forget your local paper. You may be able to find a healthy bird that comes with it’s own cage.

Good luck to you and your bird(s)!

I want a big Parrot Cage but they are so expensive at your local petstore.
thanks

eBay is decent, but I find all of my big deals at bird expos.

I bought a huge cage for my GW Macaw at only $275. My nearbye Petland charges $950 for the same exact cage.

It’s not that I couldn’t afford the Petland cage. It’s that my father would have had an absolute fit if I wasted so much money on something that I could get for more than half elsewhere.

You might be able to find a nearby show at www.birdsandpets.com

Pet stores lovvvve to mark up their prices ridiculously in the sake of profit. No wonder only a minority of people give their pets what they really need.

My parrot doesn’t trust me enough to get on my finger so if I let him out, I don’t think I can get him back in. How would I clean his cage with him still in it, or get him back in it after I’m done?
I was thinking about the towel thing, but I thought that would make him even more afraid of me.

I have a parrot the same way. I believe he was abused before I got him and he is still in the rehabilitation stages. I just go about my business cleaning the cage and ignore his raging and don’t be afraid. I have been bitten but I did not jerk back. Once he found out I wasn’t afraid he hasn’t bitten again. He will gain your trust. Whisper to him as you clean. You will find, usually, that he will quieten down so that he can hear you and just go on and do what you have to do. He should shift to the other side of the cage as you work your way around. I wouldn’t put him through the stress of taking him out forcefully and then recapturing him if he isn’t ready b/c all that is going to do is cause him to mistrust you.