Sleep habits

[Leavens]

For the 1st 8 years of his life Arthur has slept in a triangular shaped fuzzy hut. He was sent home with it and had it since he was a baby. It literally started to disintegrate around him so I threw it out and replaced it with an identical one. He refuses to go in it. He has another “play house” (different style) that he’ll go in during the day. He won’t sleep in that either. We find him in the morning hanging on the side of his cage, next to, and touching the green hut but he still won’t go in. Sometimes he sleeps with his head resting on it. I have literally put him in it but he runs straight out the other side. Any suggestions? We feel badly for him.

 

[lollipoppy]

For the 1st 8 years of his life Arthur has slept in a triangular shaped fuzzy hut. He was sent home with it and had it since he was a baby. It literally started to disintegrate around him so I threw it out and replaced it with an identical one. He refuses to go in it. He has another “play house” (different style) that he’ll go in during the day. He won’t sleep in that either. We find him in the morning hanging on the side of his cage, next to, and touching the green hut but he still won’t go in. Sometimes he sleeps with his head resting on it. I have literally put him in it but he runs straight out the other side. Any suggestions? We feel badly for him.

I’ve heard those huts aren’t ideal. It’s awesome he did good with his for so long, but maybe now is a great chance to get him used to being without one?

To my understanding, toenails can get caught and they can eat the fuzz while it breaks down and have tummy issues that have, for some bird, lead to impaction and the need for tummy surgery.


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[SailBoat]

With things that are deeply woven into their daily life one should consider introducing a replacement with a bit more time than out with the old and new with the new. As you can see your Parrot has greater connection to stuff and providing new /replacement stuff with a transition period will work better.

As noted above, Huts can be problematic...

 

[Leavens]

We did try introducing him to a new hut some years ago when the original started fraying. He never went in it. I’ve mended it and relined it but it had reached the end at this point and it was no longer safe. I’m curious where and how your conures sleep?

 

[Jen5200]

Three of my conures came to me with huts that they had for several years. I did take them away after they had settled in and they have found new preferred places to sleep - please know that this took some trial and error to figure out what they were looking for. Baby and Tango now like to sleep on a perch high up in the back corner of their cage. Stanley has a rope-wrapped orb that he perches inside of. Bindi was a side-clinger and eventually I found a soft perch that she likes and will use for sleeping. It is up in the top back corner of her cage and she’ll use it there. With all of mine, it took time and trying different things - watching where they gravitate to as their “safe place” to sleep.

 

[fiddlejen]

The huts really are very unsafe for conures. To the point that some of them actually come with a warning "not for conures" on it. (Even though they are clearly designed for conures. They are entirely unsafe.)

I'm glad yours has Not taken to the new one. This is a good time to remove before he gets attached. If he is sleeping attached to the side of the cage, that is actually okay for a bird. Make sure he has enough perches - there are even flat perches you can get, rectangular or flat corner perches - if you feel he might rather sleep elsewhere. But it really is best if you take this chance to take away the hut entirely, especially since he does not love this new one yet.

IF youre not convinced about this, please take a moment to do a search online. There are So Many horror stories. Your bird has been lucky till now, but that one's gone and he does Not yet love the new one, so why keep taking the risk? Birds are perfectly able to sleep restfully whilst perching on a perch or clinging to a cage wall.

 

[Leavens]

Thanks everyone!