Ideas on "glass" cages

[xreinx]

I have a 24x18x5 ft high glass cage that was given to me, the top and front are open right now and I was wondering what people think of "glass" cages for birds, GCC size and smaller. I havent gotten a bird yet, and I look at it thinking it might not be the best Idea, yet I dont know what to do with it yet.. mostly I am afraid of what might happen if I make it into a "bird" cage.

 

[Featheredsamurai]

So, are the front and top mesh or bars, or nothing?

If it's not designed for a parrot I wouldn't use it, barred cages allow parrots to climb around, and the glass will lower the air circulation greatly. A traditional parrot cage allows unrestricted air flow.

Only glass cages I like are cage by design, the bars on this are stainless steal(expensive, but the safest). As you can see by this photo the cage still gets a lot of air flow.

 

[weco]

If you want to use that for birds, you would need to to use a fan to provide air movement/ventilation or the bird(s) will overheat.....that was the problem with those plexiglass cages that were the rage 10 years ago.....even though they had air holes in them, they retained too much heat.....

 

[xreinx]

the front is the biggest area besides the back and no it dosent have bars yet, but I looked into it and I found a place that will allow me to get powder coated mesh at any size I want, though it will cost me and the top pannel of glass broke so I took that out, so its only got glas on three sides now, I could put a fan in the back if I wished but I was told that birds shouldent have a breeze, the only thing Id say "good" about this, is my house is cold, any amount of contained heat would be better then a open cage in my house.

 

[weco]

I'm aware of what the weather's like up there.....I spent a year up the Kuskoquim & you can't always believe what you read, because it's not always true.....macaws fly at speeds around 35 mph and a couple of years ago, a couple of Australia's bored finest reportedly radar clocked a flock of lorikeets at over 70 kph...so would you say they had a breeze in their face.....hmmm, guess the birds didn't know it was bad for them to fly that fast.....

 

[Mayden]

I'm aware of what the weather's like up there.....I spent a year up the Kuskoquim & you can't always believe what you read, because it's not always true.....macaws fly at speeds around 35 mph and a couple of years ago, a couple of Australia's bored finest reportedly radar clocked a flock of lorikeets at over 70 kph...so would you say they had a breeze in their face.....hmmm, guess the birds didn't know it was bad for them to fly that fast.....

There is a huge difference between flying at great speeds and wanting to rest, relax, nap and eat with a 'breeze' which can become nothing more than a constant chill.

I'd say don't get a glass cage, breeze/too much heat, either way is bad in my opinion. Unless it is like the picture above, I'd just get a standard cage. Better to be safe than sorry and have to fork out on a standard cage anyway. You can always make some kind of display out of the glass

 

[xreinx]

I have the glass cage already, but it isnt fixed up yet, and I think you are right Mayden.
Even if the top and front are wire, I still think its too small for anything that I want, in anycase, only 18 by 24 .. to me thats not enough wing room-IMO.

I missed out on the lovebird, it already went to a new home by the time I called, so I think I am going to just make the glass cage into the terrarium I was thinking about.