Sleeping Quarters?

[shirino]

Hi,

I've mentioned sleep before, but I'm interested to know how many people have a separate sleep cage/area for bedtime and how many cover the cage at night? What's a typical bedtime routine? If you have a separate cage, do you include food/water there as well?

Thanks! So many questions! 7 days to go!

 

[BillsBirds]

I have always had too many birds to give them seperate cages for sleeping. I have covered my forever flocks cages, which are in the livingroom, at night. But, my rescues in the bird room, I have not. To allow them to become accustomed to daylight/nighttime routines. When re-homed, I left it up to their new guardians to decide about nighttime. I think it depends on where in your house you keep them. My livingroom birds go to bed before I do, and covering them signals time to go to sleep. Even though the TV is still on, lowered volume, of course. The bird room gets dark when the sun goes down, and I can close the door to give them a quiet place to sleep. Both of these scenarios have worked well for me.

 

[erik7181]

I have two cages and i cover both at night with cage covers, there called cozy covers i think. I don't have a scedual my one guy puts him self to sleep, my little guy naps through out the day but i cover him at 9pm

 

[JamesC]

My three birds are in the living room. My Senegal prefers to go to bed around 8-9 when he starts getting sleepy. Easy to tell because he gets a little nippy and growly. After his evening weight check, into his cage he goes for a few nibbles of food then I cover him up and turn down the lights and TV volume. The two Blue Crowns are accustomed to staying up to around 10. They spend that last hour quietly (usually, hopefully) preening. They get their weight check then they go into separate cages, have a little time to eat if they wish, get covered and it is lights out.

The Senegal and one of the Blue Crowns seem to look forward to getting covered. Seems to be a warm, comfortable and secure feeling as they sleep. I don't think the second Blue Crown has become accustomed enough to it to feel comfortable. She is a rescue and I don't think she has experienced being covered much before she came here.

All three of them seem content or at least accepting of the night time routine.

 

[lene1949]

My birds sleep in the office, and during the day, when I'm finished on the computer, they go into the loungeroom (I just roll their cages in there), next to a window for the day.. I never cover their cages.. When I turn the lights off in the office and say good night, they're quiet till the next morning..

 

[suebee]

great suggestions above

nut gets a separate sleep cage an into spare bed room, as her main cage is in living room, so even if we covered it, there'll be to much noise from telly

when she goes into her sleep cage, there is water, and a food bowl, she likes to eat before going for her sleep and its important they have enough, before they sleep

just stick to a fairly consistant routine, that'll suit you both, as having an extra cage means extra cleaning etc

welcome an pics when you can

 

[roxynoodle]

I only have the cages they use all the time rather than sleep cages. I do cover them all at night, although I only cover Merlin half way and she has a night light as well, due to her vision issues. She has been known to have night frights, and did have one here the first night. The half cover and light seem to help. She also wants to go to bed earlier than the other 2 and she gets up a bit earlier as well (for awhile she was getting up 2 hours earlier than them, but now it's more like half an hour).

I tend to go to bed myself not long after they do, but if there is a guest here that often doesn't happen, and I worry about them getting enough sleep. There is another TV in the house though and we can go in that room to watch it.

 

[Helitorian]

Con goes to bed when I go to bed which is around 9-12 at night and she gets up between 9-12 depending on when I either wake up or come home for my lunch break to uncover her and give her her fresh food.

 

[Mare Miller]

Amigo gets his own sleeping room, now that the kids are grown and gone. Sometimes he'll have to share his space when the kids are home and we have company. My daughter says he snores! I don't cover him but I do have black out curtains for his room. He goes down with the sun and wakes up when we do, around 7:00am.

 

[ZoeS]

I put my conure to bed between 10 and 11, or whenever she starts acting tired. She sleeps in our bedroom in a small cage. No water or food. When she wakes up (depends on how active she was, what time she went to bed, and if we are up before her) she starts making a racket and then she either comes out with us or gets put into her daytime cage. I do cover her cage at night.