"Sleep cage system" anyone?

[Chrystal]

Does anyone else do the "sleep cage" system? It's where you take your birds off their main cage and put them in a sleep cage in a dark room with no windows.
I do this with my two Conures and it works out great. It really eliminates the morning screaming! I was wondering if anyone else does this & if they had as much success as I'm having? I'm looking at getting a big Amazon. And I know this is a big issue Amazons. Just wondering if it is effective with all breeds?

 

[JerseyWendy]

I cover my fids up at night, and they ARE quiet until I remove the blankies.

If you have the room, by all means do the sleep cage, especially if it works so well for your other two.

 

[brittani299]

My amazon doesn't scream but I think he is adnormal. He will loudly say hello when I see him in the morning but that's it.

 

[ParkersMom]

I don't do anything...mine sleep when they want and are usually quite when they wake up...unless they hear us making noise

 

[punkindave]

Butchie goes to "bed" in his own room with a smaller cage, blackout curtains and a stupid "sound machine" that plays ocean sounds or rainstorm. He's pretty good about screeching in the morning (normally a few at sunup) but sometimes not a peep until 10am.

He gets upset if we come home after sundown and he's not "in bed".. When we walk in he gives a a sarcastic "HELLOOOOO" a few times followed by "Butch go night night, Butchie bye bye"

 

[Boysmom]

My 2 girls sleep in their normal cage and I do not cover them either. They are silent until I tell them good morning, no matter how late I sleep. Flora's cage is in my bedroom and Ruby's is in our living room. I stay up late and sleep late, sometimes not arising till 10 or 11 AM and Flora will be awake but won't say a word or make a sound until I tell her good morning. Ruby is the same way, not a peep till I turn on her lamp and speak to her. They are angels.

 

[Chrystal]

Thanks guys! This helps a lot. I tried covering my birds cage but they would pull on it through the cage bars. So that option didn't work for us. They would chew little holes in the cover until they could pick out. silly birds!

 

[Megapixel]

I don't use sleep cages and I don't cover cages. In fact, I open the blinds in the living room where the birds live before I go to bed so that they get the morning light when the sun comes up, which is well before I get up. The only morning noise in my home is from the one bird, a senegal, that lives in my bedroom. She'll start calling for me as soon as she knows that I'm awake.
I guess I have a freakishly quiet flock. it's not that they aren't loud, it's that they make very little noise at all.

 

[Blueridge]

I just put a blanket over my bird's cage at night and he doesn't make any noise until I take it off in the morning. I don't use a seperate cage for sleeping.

Good luck!

 

[ParkersMom]

Parker and Juno will quietly whistle amongst themselves and Charlie doesn't make a sound...but once I am up its a free for all for about 10 minutes then back to not much noise....

 

[SoCalWendy]

I use a sleep cage for Rio. Sometimes she wants to go to bed and other times she would rather hang out in the living room on her orb. If she could just sleep on the orb she would prefer it. But don't want her to be left unattended all night long.

 

[henpecked]

I use a "sleep" cage but it's really their travel cage. I use it so that if i have to carry them somewhere they don't freak out. I usually keep their sleep/travel cage on top of their home cage, they can use it when ever they want. Quiet in the AM??? not around my house, i have many zons in the house and a aviary full of breeder zon. The outside breeders love to "greet" the day and that always gets the inside birds going. I think having lots of zons tends to make it much noisier than just acouple of pets, just one bird can get the whole flock going.

 

[lquan]

My Lily has a sleeping cage in the upstairs loft. Her daytime cage is in the familyroom; too much distractions for her to rest. Her daytime is too big to move anywhere even though it has casters. She doesn't eat or poop in her sleeping cage; therefore, I only have 1 cage to clean frequently. She is free to go in and out of her sleeping anytime she wants. I trained her to poop on the newspapper outside of her sleeping cage and fly into the bathroom to wait for me to wake up. I have an opened window in the bathroom. She is very chatter in the morning when there are other birds on the vines outside the window. She doesn't scream in the morning; just a lot of chattering.

 

[Motogordo]

Jan.20, 2014

At one time I had a problem with the birds screaming while watching TV. The louder the TV is the louder they get (3 Zons). I have one of those 3 story cages which I used in the third bedroom where no one sleeps. That worked fine for the TV noise. I then purchased 3 separate cages and have them in the kitchen adjoining the family room. When I go to bed at night, I say good night and turn off all the lights and go to bed. They don't make a single sound until they hear me open my bedroom door in the morning. I am so glad they are quiet at night. If they weren't I would have a real problem on my hands. LOL

 

[RavensGryf]

Sleep cages are a nice idea... I wish that I had room for that here. I always wish they could get their 12 hrs of recommended sleep, but in a human household with different schedules (in the real world) it is hard. One day if I get the space I'd consider it.

Megapixel - I also have "freakishly quiet" birds in the morning. I think they are just used to that until they start hearing noise from us, and opening the blinds, and removing their covers, that they are still "in bed"