Roswell (and Basil, and Blythe's) cage

[budgiebudgie]

Marianne Marlow, I want to buy my budgie a bigger cage and for sale nearby is an assembled 'Rekord 4' at a good price.  I think I will get it for her.

I was browsing your feathered fiend blog last night, and thought that R, B and B's cage looked very like it (the Rekord 4).  Do you know if it is?  I'd like to know because I'm still intending to get Bimbo a friend, and I might delay moving her into a bigger cage until such point as her little budgie companion arrives on the scene.

THe drawback of it (as you yourself pointed out) is that it doesn't look all that easy to get in or out of.

[Marianne Marlow]

budgiebudgie I do not know the brand of this cage, it has a sticker on the front that says IMAC, so I guess that mucst be the brand.

I didn't actually buy it, it came with Blueboy and Sky, I took them in(rehomed them) then in October 2010.

It does kind of look like a ferplast cage, but I don't think it is.

Does Bimbo get a lot of flying time? the "IMAC" cage that I have isn't big enough to keep birds in that don't have much free flight time.

I tried to take a picture of the sticker with my phone and the budgies all scattered as I lifted the newspaper, oops.

[budgiebudgie]

Okay, that's helpful, thanks. I thought, when looking at your blog, that it would be perfect for two! Bimbo's cage is definitely small, and she is in it when I'm not around (and I'm around most of the time when not at work). She doesn't fly all that often, but will do a few circuits of the living room and conjoined 'back' room (an estate agent would prob call it a dining room). Yesterday, she seemed to be trying to set a new record for speed. How she avoided flying into a wall at maximum velocity, I do not know. I suppose she must know her limits. She certainly knows the layout of the room well enough. I may buy the Rekord 4 cage anyway, even though it isn't infact R, B and B's cage. Thanks for helping me with the photo.

[jellybean]

How big a cage are you looking for budgiebudgie? This is the one I have for my 2 boys, they love it, there's lots of space.

www.littlepetwarehouse.co.uk/products/hamberley-single-metal-large-cage.html

[Marianne Marlow]

That's a lovely cage jellybean

I wish I could get a huge cage for all of mine, but they all have their funny little ways so I think they're better the way they are.

Billybob and JoJo don't have good grip and would keep falling off their perches when the others came near them.

Plus Blithe never wants to settle down for bed so he's better in with Roswell and Basil as he doesn't play with them!

[jellybean]

Thanks Marianne. Value for money, I've yet to find better.

[budgiebudgie]

jellybean, it is a lovely cage, but may be one that I mentally put on a 'perhaps' pile because the bars are vertical rather than horizontal. With a lovely cage as big as that, it would be fun for the buds to climb the bars, I think. THe cage Bimbo has now can't really be climbed up, but she has fun sliding down!

[Deleted]

I've got my eye on the Ferplast Canto cage for Squawk. He has the medium Vision cage, but when I saw the Canto at skysmum house it looked really nice. It's on my to do list to purchase for Squawk soon. He's in line for a big present.


m.zooplus.co.uk/shop/birds/bird_cages_and_accessories/parakeet_cages/ferplast/14361

[BudgieS90]

I can highly reccomend vision cages, thats what skittles has, its robust, stable big, and easy to get the food and water out

[Hezz]

I really don't understand this thinking that budgies need horizontal bars. They don't. In fact they seem to love abseiling down the vertical bars and do not have a problem climbing back up them either.

[OP]

The only plus for horizontal bars is that there is more places to hang stuff. I must agree that watching the buds abseiling is fantastic.

[Marianne Marlow]

Feb 1, 2016 5:25:36 GMT Hezz said:

I really don't understand this thinking that budgies need horizontal bars. They don't. In fact they seem to love abseiling down the vertical bars and do not have a problem climbing back up them either.

Except that JoJo and Billybob have damaged feet from having huge branches that were too large for their feet in the previous cage.

I honestly don't think they'd be able to negotiate the vertical bars. Luckily the vision cages have vertical bars.

[budgiebudgie]

Hezz,

I really don't understand this thinking that budgies need horizontal bars. They don't. In fact they seem to love abseiling down the vertical bars and do not have a problem climbing back up them either.

With her current cage, my bird loves to slide down the vertical bars but she can't climb up them (except on one side, which she seems to enjoy doing). If a cage had vertical bars on most sides, that would be fine - so long as one side out of four had some horizontal bars for clambering.

If I were being given a cage or picking one up second hand, I'd let this matter go, but if I'm going to be spending up to £100, I'd like to get one with the features I want it to have.

[maz66]

This is Bertie's cage, which has a perch outside the cage for him to fly onto before entering.

www.ferplast.com/gb/ibiza-open.html#.Vq9b6EgTHm0.mailto

[OP]

budgiebudgie, if you have horizontal bars on one side how do you get your budgie to climb that one side. If yours are anything like mine they would climb any side but the one with horizontal bars. I have put perches, even a ladder in for Edward, does she use them? I'll let you answer that one.