New play area

[Aplanis]

As I'm new to parrots and Conures I've been reading post on this wonderful forum and other online resources.

I have a dome top type cage so hard to get a gym area to set on top. I open the cage door while I'm home and a Roux goes in and out at her will. But felt I wanted to give her something to do when out. I had a rope perch on top but that didn't provide much play time.

I found a wire ladder at PetSmart and attached that too the top. She's been loving it. Already destroyed the one toy I put on top.

I placed a bicycle basket on the side of the cage just to use as storage for other toys. She loves going into the basket and throwing balls onto the floor. Seems she loves just watching it fall and the sound when it falls to the floor.

I also have a perch she spends time on too

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[DoubleTake]

Sounds like your baby is having fun. As far as throwing stuff from the basket. What bird doesn't like to make a mess and have their servant reset the game.

 

[Aplanis]

Sounds like your baby is having fun. As far as throwing stuff from the basket. What bird doesn't like to make a mess and have their servant reset the game.

Lol yeah I think that's the game. I should expect my treat


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[Caitnah]

Sounds like your baby is having fun. As far as throwing stuff from the basket. What bird doesn't like to make a mess and have their servant reset the game.

Lol yeah I think that's the game. I should expect my treat


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...My GCC loves to retrieve a loose wood bead that is on her playground top. He then proceeds to walk to the edge of the top and drop it in the floor. He then looks at me with a stare that implies "...go get it!"

He has ME trained.

 

[EllenD]

Great idea with that wire ladder, I hadn't ever thought of that for the dome-tops...

Bit of a warning I must give you about your cage thought, not to be a drag, but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't give you a head's up. My Senegal parrot, Kane, went into a massive dome-top cage when I brought him home at 13 weeks old, and he loved it. It was my first dome-top cage, just like yours it was white, maybe a bit larger but pretty much the same cage, and since he loved it and I got a great deal on it I was happy too...

One day I had forgotten to put Kane back in his cage when I ran out to run a 30 minute errand, at most 30 minutes. I had left him out on his cage, and when I remembered that I hadn't put him back in his cage I just figured that he was flying all over my house, making a mess...When I came home I was horrified to find Kane stuck to the outside of the cage, on the left side of the cage, at the front, where the front piece meets the side piece meets the top piece, at that 3-panel corner. He had basically slid-down the top into that corner and gotten one of his toes stuck in it and couldn't get it out. Apparently he decided it was better to chew part of his toe off than to stay stuck until I got home, so when I opened the front door all I heard was his screaming and crying. I ran to the cage and it had blood everywhere, down the cage, on the stand, and a puddle on the floor. I immediately just tried to pick him up but he was still stuck, and I had to slide his foot upwards to free what was left of it from that corner where the 3 panels meet...

We rushed to the office of my Certified Avian Vet without an appointment, I knew he wouldn't care, and long story short, Kane lost half of his backwards-pointing toe on his foot. He's fine, you'd not know anything was wrong unless you noticed his "nubbin", he walks fine, gets around fine, no issues, but I was so thankful that he hadn't bled to death.

I did some research on the dome-top cages afterwards and found that the way that all the panels come together has been a problem for a lot of people, usually it's a tailfeather that gets stuck, or the cage comes apart because they couldn't get the panels to line-up correctly, but needless to say that Kane got a new cage the next week when it arrived from Amazon...just a head's up...

 

[Aplanis]

Great idea with that wire ladder, I hadn't ever thought of that for the dome-tops...

Bit of a warning I must give you about your cage thought, not to be a drag, but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't give you a head's up. My Senegal parrot, Kane, went into a massive dome-top cage when I brought him home at 13 weeks old, and he loved it. It was my first dome-top cage, just like yours it was white, maybe a bit larger but pretty much the same cage, and since he loved it and I got a great deal on it I was happy too...

One day I had forgotten to put Kane back in his cage when I ran out to run a 30 minute errand, at most 30 minutes. I had left him out on his cage, and when I remembered that I hadn't put him back in his cage I just figured that he was flying all over my house, making a mess...When I came home I was horrified to find Kane stuck to the outside of the cage, on the left side of the cage, at the front, where the front piece meets the side piece meets the top piece, at that 3-panel corner. He had basically slid-down the top into that corner and gotten one of his toes stuck in it and couldn't get it out. Apparently he decided it was better to chew part of his toe off than to stay stuck until I got home, so when I opened the front door all I heard was his screaming and crying. I ran to the cage and it had blood everywhere, down the cage, on the stand, and a puddle on the floor. I immediately just tried to pick him up but he was still stuck, and I had to slide his foot upwards to free what was left of it from that corner where the 3 panels meet...

We rushed to the office of my Certified Avian Vet without an appointment, I knew he wouldn't care, and long story short, Kane lost half of his backwards-pointing toe on his foot. He's fine, you'd not know anything was wrong unless you noticed his "nubbin", he walks fine, gets around fine, no issues, but I was so thankful that he hadn't bled to death.

I did some research on the dome-top cages afterwards and found that the way that all the panels come together has been a problem for a lot of people, usually it's a tailfeather that gets stuck, or the cage comes apart because they couldn't get the panels to line-up correctly, but needless to say that Kane got a new cage the next week when it arrived from Amazon...just a head's up...

Hey

Thank you for your massage and warning. That's terrible. Very lucky you came home and your bird is okay that's terrible that happened.

My cage isn't a typical dome-top cage. I'm not really sure I know what area you're referring to.

This is my cage. Should I aware of any issues?




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[Aplanis]

Great idea with that wire ladder, I hadn't ever thought of that for the dome-tops...

Bit of a warning I must give you about your cage thought, not to be a drag, but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't give you a head's up. My Senegal parrot, Kane, went into a massive dome-top cage when I brought him home at 13 weeks old, and he loved it. It was my first dome-top cage, just like yours it was white, maybe a bit larger but pretty much the same cage, and since he loved it and I got a great deal on it I was happy too...

One day I had forgotten to put Kane back in his cage when I ran out to run a 30 minute errand, at most 30 minutes. I had left him out on his cage, and when I remembered that I hadn't put him back in his cage I just figured that he was flying all over my house, making a mess...When I came home I was horrified to find Kane stuck to the outside of the cage, on the left side of the cage, at the front, where the front piece meets the side piece meets the top piece, at that 3-panel corner. He had basically slid-down the top into that corner and gotten one of his toes stuck in it and couldn't get it out. Apparently he decided it was better to chew part of his toe off than to stay stuck until I got home, so when I opened the front door all I heard was his screaming and crying. I ran to the cage and it had blood everywhere, down the cage, on the stand, and a puddle on the floor. I immediately just tried to pick him up but he was still stuck, and I had to slide his foot upwards to free what was left of it from that corner where the 3 panels meet...

We rushed to the office of my Certified Avian Vet without an appointment, I knew he wouldn't care, and long story short, Kane lost half of his backwards-pointing toe on his foot. He's fine, you'd not know anything was wrong unless you noticed his "nubbin", he walks fine, gets around fine, no issues, but I was so thankful that he hadn't bled to death.

I did some research on the dome-top cages afterwards and found that the way that all the panels come together has been a problem for a lot of people, usually it's a tailfeather that gets stuck, or the cage comes apart because they couldn't get the panels to line-up correctly, but needless to say that Kane got a new cage the next week when it arrived from Amazon...just a head's up...

Hey

Thank you for your massage and warning. That's terrible. Very lucky you came home and your bird is okay that's terrible that happened.

My cage isn't a typical dome-top cage. I'm not really sure I know what area you're referring to.

This is my cage. Should I aware of any issues?

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It's a Prevue Pagoda cage. Sold as a Cockatiel cage as I initially had it for a Cockatiel.


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[EllenD]

Okay good, your cage is different in that it has the metal bars at all of the places that the panels come together, so you won't have the same issue that mine did. Picture your cage without the brown metal bars at the joints, and that was my cage, the panels all basically came together and just snapped-in to each other, creating corners where bars overlapped, and one of these corners is where is foot got stuck. I loved the cage otherwise, it was huge, has the opening play-top, etc., but it went immediately...

 

[Aplanis]

Okay good, your cage is different in that it has the metal bars at all of the places that the panels come together, so you won't have the same issue that mine did. Picture your cage without the brown metal bars at the joints, and that was my cage, the panels all basically came together and just snapped-in to each other, creating corners where bars overlapped, and one of these corners is where is foot got stuck. I loved the cage otherwise, it was huge, has the opening play-top, etc., but it went immediately...

Thanks though. I'm glad mine doesn't have that issue. But reassuring to know.




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[WakaWaka]

Congrads on your new baby. She looks lovely and very happy.
Looks like she is having fun with her ladder setup.

Looking at your pictures, I would like to offer a suggestion.

I noticed that you have a few spring loaded clips used to hang some of the toys. I would recommend replacing them with the closed loop screw together type. Not the really thin ones, get the better stainless ones from some of the hardware stores. They come in a variety of sizes, can be secured with a wrench so they cannot open and harm your little girl.
The spring loaded ones can potentially catch a beak, foot, or something else. Another member here had an issue with one of the smaller screw together types and her bird wound up having it go through the skin near the bottom of the beak.

Thread is here:
http://www.parrotforums.com/general...-all-parrot-owners-now-way-emergency-vet.html

Please let up know if you have any questions as many here are more than willing to help keep our fids safe.