Advice on big cages for budgies?

[Yume]

Hi there! I hope this is the right place to share this. I have two budgies, named Honey and Pumpkin. They have a fairly large cage that they like to relax in but I want to expand it to a bit bigger, since Pumpkin isn't too keen on coming out (she had a really rough past), I want a big cage for her where she can still move around freely. I also really want the cage to have big doors, since Honey, bless his heart, often struggles to find the door (or is suspicious of it, I'm suspecting both!) That way when the door is open, Honey will come out more and Pumpkin will be more encouraged to follow, since she likes to copy what Honey does. Which means they both will fly around in the room more and interact with us more, and hopefully Pumpkin will finally be a little more hand-trained. Honey have no problem with coming out or our hands, he just doesn't like the tiny door.

But the problem is, I'm struggling to find any big cages that have horizontal bars, or bars that aren't big, since I don't want their heads to get stuck between the cages. Does anyone have any recommendations on big cages that fit the criteria of being budgie friendly and has large doors? It seems all the ones I find are more suitable for canaries or are far too small.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you! <3




Here's a picture of Honey ♥ I'm aware that Honey is really a 'she', but we found out that way later so it's just stuck with us!

Pumpkin is more photo shy, sadly. But one day - we have hope!

Here's an old picture of Pumpkin in her old cage that she was adopted with. Poor thing was so shy, she has warmed up so much since then. ♥

[Loz]

Welcome to the Forum, Yume!
Honey & Pumpkin look very cute, thanks for posting pics of them! Congratulations on rescuing Pumpkin and giving her a good home.
I use a couple of floor-standing cages for my flock which I bought from The Little Pet Warehouse. These stand about 5 or so feet tall. The downside with them is they are more vertically orientated rather than horizontal, if you get my meaning. The budgies by choice really only use the top half of the cages but the kakariki utilises the entire volume, being equally happy on the ground or high-up. The vertical nature of the space might mean you would be uninterested in this type of cage,
having only budgies but I thought I'd mention them.





www.littlepetwarehouse.co.uk

(I am not affiliated in any way with that seller)

[Hezz]

The best cage for budgies that I have seen come out of UK, and quite a few of our members have them, is the Hamberley. Hopefully some of these members may be able to point you in the right direction as to where to buy. Horizon bars are only an issue if your bird is disabled and needs to use the bars to pull themselves around, even then ladders work just as well.
I did find a link for Amazon uk.
www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Friends-Hamberley-Metal-Cage/dp/B005CAY8QA

[blueelephant]

Hi, as Hezz has said a lot of people have the Hamberley cage:

www.littlepetwarehouse.co.uk/products/hamberley-single-metal-large-cage.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwtvqVBhCVARIsAFUxcRvB4wiigw_oAqFNSUP9F_0UX6HNjvvZd3FNQ8W5qScEaAWkRlR4egMaAhX4EALw_wcB

It's great and would be wonderful for two budgies. I got mine from little pet warehouse but sadly it seems to be out of stock at the moment. The vertical bars are fine. The birds all climb quite happily. Often in favour of flying because they are lazy little perch potatoes at times!

There is something similar looking on Amazon but it's a brand I've not heard of. If you Google Hamberley Bird cage it will come up.

[sweetpea]

I have the Liberta Oregon which is similar in size to the Hamberley. Unfortunately it has vertical bars.

The Ferplast piano 6 is also a good size & has horizontal bars but the doors are small.

If you have to go for vertical bars, you can position perches in the middle of vertical sections or even have ladders flush to the bars to introduce the horizontals. You can get 'stepping stone' type perches which are handy.