Winter months

[eliholtman]

Any advice on how to keep my budgies warm during the winter, they're upstairs in my house so its the warmest place but since it's an old house it still gets pretty cold

 

[LordTriggs]

best advice I can offer quickly would be to crank the thermostat up a little bit, try to keep them in a room with as little drafts as possible, Get a draft excluder for the door and also to get some sealant and check for any cracks near the windows (especially the windowsill)

 

[Laurasea]

Check out the Sweeter Heater on Amazon, is a radiant heat panel and hangs outside the cage, I've used one for 17 years. Be careful in a small cage it covered you could over heat them.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Whats the temperature in the house? My house is kept at 65 degrees and it has never affected the fids. And don't forget,hot air rises,so if your guys are kept upstairs and out of drafts and away from windows I don't think you'll have a problem.


Jim

 

[Scott]

Another suggestion for "spot heating" is an oil-filled electric radiator. I have one in the garage for my flight cages on the coldest nights. Electric coils heat sealed chambers so there are no fumes.

Example:

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Another suggestion for "spot heating" is an oil-filled electric radiator. I have one in the garage for my flight cages on the coldest nights. Electric coils heat sealed chambers so there are no fumes.

Example:

I also had one of those "Amish" electric "fire places" in my living room. Not only did it warm the room it kept the fids toasty and was inexpensive to run.


Jim

 

[itzjbean]

All great advice given so far. We also have an old, drafty house and keep it at 67-68 degrees al winter long. I do also have a heater near the cage (mostly I use it) but it also helps the room stay warm. It is a Honeywell plug in heater.

 

[reeb]

Another suggestion for "spot heating" is an oil-filled electric radiator. I have one in the garage for my flight cages on the coldest nights. Electric coils heat sealed chambers so there are no fumes.

Example:

Yes I use one of these with my indoor birds in winter! Although it doesn't get TOO cold here in South Africa , houses aren't really designed for cold so it can get pretty chilly inside without heat. In the outdoor aviary we use a heat lamp, and plastic covers that can be pulled down to protect from weather (it rains here in winter). My birds have been totally fine in both of these circumstances!

 

[EllenD]

I actually have two of the "plug-in radiators" in the walk-out floor of my house where the walk-in aviary is that houses my 8 Budgies. It's a split-level house, so the walk-out level is connected to the garage that is built under the house, and that "floor" of the house is actually under ground in the back, while the front is street-level, so it does get quite cold...I have a great wood-stove and a real chimney in the "foyer" of that floor, but I don't burn it without closing the door to the aviary room due to the possibility of smoke. And even though that room has 2 long baseboard heaters in it, it still gets cold because it's technically "half underground". So actually if I keep the thermostat for the baseboards at 65 degrees F and then run the two portable "radiators" like the above photos, they keep the room toasty and I don't need to burn the wood-stove. They work great and are totally safe, you don't have to worry about Teflon or any toxic "fumes" at all..