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Post by budgiebudgie on Jan 31, 2016 10:37:23 GMT
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.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 31, 2016 10:47:40 GMT
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.
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Post by budgiebudgie on Jan 31, 2016 11:02:10 GMT
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.
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Post by jellybean on Jan 31, 2016 11:12:11 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 31, 2016 11:20:01 GMT
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!
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Post by jellybean on Jan 31, 2016 11:35:49 GMT
Thanks Marianne. Value for money, I've yet to find better.
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Post by budgiebudgie on Jan 31, 2016 11:39:25 GMT
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!
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Post by BudgieS90 on Jan 31, 2016 16:41:52 GMT
I can highly reccomend vision cages, thats what skittles has, its robust, stable big, and easy to get the food and water out
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Post by Hezz on Feb 1, 2016 5:25:36 GMT
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.
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Post by OP on Feb 1, 2016 7:56:46 GMT
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.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Feb 1, 2016 8:22:16 GMT
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.
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Post by budgiebudgie on Feb 1, 2016 13:08:19 GMT
Hezz, 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.
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Post by maz66 on Feb 1, 2016 13:25:23 GMT
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Post by OP on Feb 1, 2016 13:36:04 GMT
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.
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