Thought/Input on this Cage for a U2

[ToMang07]

Looking to pick up a secondary cage for a Cockatoo, so I have one in my room and one in the living room.

I found this one pretty cheap, owner "doesn't know" the measurements. :20:

Looks pretty large tho. Obviously I'd wash/disinfect the hell out of it before I used it, but it's a pretty good deal as far as I can tell.

Thoughts?

 

[thekarens]

Doesn't look big enough for a regular cage, but fine for a sleep cage.

 

[jiannotto9492]

Not big enough and be careful with the older second hand cages. That might have some exposed metal/rust that you would have to make bird safe.

 

[Kiwibird]

Curious why you want 2 cages? Personally, I would use the money you would spend on a second cage on a really nice play stand instead.

Also, I know some disagree, but I find a sleep cage wholly unnecessary. The jungle is neither pitch black nor dead silent at night, and a parrot will quickly adjust to going to bed (even if you don't!) when the cover goes on. You just have to let them "cry it out" a few nights if they protest and they'll be fine. Plus, I'll tell you from my experience growing up with a cockatoo, you do NOT want one sleeping in your bedroom. If one micron of light got under that cage cover as the sun rose (especially in summer when it came up early) he would immediately begin screeching at eardrum splitting volumes at the crack of dawn:52: And flock calling in the am/pm is a markedly more 'extreme' behavior in cockatoos compared to other species.

 

[ToMang07]

Well originally I was looking for just a stand but I thought a cage I could lock the bird in would be better, in the event the doors are open or somebody stops over, etc.

Maybe I'll just hold out for a stand or a larger cage.

 

[ToMang07]

Curious why you want 2 cages? Personally, I would use the money you would spend on a second cage on a really nice play stand instead.

Also, I know some disagree, but I find a sleep cage wholly unnecessary. The jungle is neither pitch black nor dead silent at night, and a parrot will quickly adjust to going to bed (even if you don't!) when the cover goes on. You just have to let them "cry it out" a few nights if they protest and they'll be fine. Plus, I'll tell you from my experience growing up with a cockatoo, you do NOT want one sleeping in your bedroom. If one micron of light got under that cage cover as the sun rose (especially in summer when it came up early) he would immediately begin screeching at eardrum splitting volumes at the crack of dawn:52: And flock calling in the am/pm is a markedly more 'extreme' behavior in cockatoos compared to other species.

Well, to be honest, I'm not 100% sure where I'll put each cage. The bird I'm hopefully picking up has her own large cage, which I intend to keep as her "primary" cage.

I'm not sure if I want to put her primary cage in my room, or the living room. Both have the same amount of air and windows. The living room obviously being the busiest room with the most traffic, my bedroom being the quietest, but more secluded so "noise" won't be as much of an issue.

I was thinking if I do a Primary cage in my room, a small cage or at least a stand in the living room so she has her "own space."

If the main cage goes in the living room, a sleeper in my room so she isn't alone and/or pissing off the entire house, lol

Make sense? Or am I totally off base here?

 

[jiannotto9492]

Curious why you want 2 cages? Personally, I would use the money you would spend on a second cage on a really nice play stand instead.

Also, I know some disagree, but I find a sleep cage wholly unnecessary. The jungle is neither pitch black nor dead silent at night, and a parrot will quickly adjust to going to bed (even if you don't!) when the cover goes on. You just have to let them "cry it out" a few nights if they protest and they'll be fine. Plus, I'll tell you from my experience growing up with a cockatoo, you do NOT want one sleeping in your bedroom. If one micron of light got under that cage cover as the sun rose (especially in summer when it came up early) he would immediately begin screeching at eardrum splitting volumes at the crack of dawn:52: And flock calling in the am/pm is a markedly more 'extreme' behavior in cockatoos compared to other species.

Ya know sometimes that alarm clock bird is what you need in your life.

 

[Kiwibird]

Ya know sometimes that alarm clock bird is what you need in your life.

Oh no he isn't I do not miss my dads cockatoo one bit! I wake up naturally somewhere between 5:30-6am every morning. I never sleep in and don't need an alarm clock (or a bird up at the crack of dawn, thank god Kiwi likes to sleep in so I have time in the morning before the parrot is up).

 

[ToMang07]

LOL, as long as she's not getting me up before sun-up I won't be bothered. I don't get up especially early, but don't really need to. It wouldn't hurt my feeling to get up and play with the feathered alarm clock a bit.

Unless it's something like 3 or 4 am. They we're having roast bird for dinner, lol



(joking....don't anybody get your feathers ruffled!)

 

[jiannotto9492]

See I'm trying to get Duke to go off with my alarm clock. He's waking up to my alarm at 5:30 am and making some chatter. But I really want him to go crazy until I get up in the morning.

 

[ToMang07]

See I'm trying to get Duke to go off with my alarm clock. He's waking up to my alarm at 5:30 am and making some chatter. But I really want him to go crazy until I get up in the morning.

I have known some Toos to love heavy rock/metal... I'm hoping the one I'm looking to pick up does, nothing like crazy-bird and metal first thing in the morning! lol