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Post by kmic on Mar 25, 2014 12:02:46 GMT
I've realised I haven't given you an update in quite a while, so here goes - Everyone is finally enjoying the room after figuring out where the cage door is - worst flock calling ever: someone finds the door, gets out, and the others don't - ear plugs are essential hehe
- Vegetables are on the menu. We're now eating carrots and sweet pepper (apart from apples which they ate before). They simply love making a mess out of them - especially Sky who treats carrots as shredding toys and tosses pieces all over the room. It took some time to figure out the secret. I had read your posts where you mentioned that the way the veg is chopped etc makes a difference, and my budgies would only eat apples - which I placed between cage bars. Once I decided to just place a carrot piece instead of an apple and they immediately ate most of it. So I went and bought them a stainless-steel kebab stick, and well they now taste anything that's on it and munch it down if they like it.
- Tequila has gained most of his flight back and getting better at it - he's totally stopped using the ladders and will gladly fly round the room for fun. He's still having some crash landings when he doesn't manage to calculate well where the perch is though.
- Curacao is really sick (as you might have read in my other post) but slowly getting better. He hates his meds but will actually climb on my shoulder and stay there for a while once I let him go after giving them to him.
- Tequila and Kermit: there's a love story going on over here
 Tequila is absolutely trying his best to impress Kermit, and Kermit seems to be enjoying it.
- Once it starts getting dark, every one returns to the cage for the night no matter how hungry or not they are (their food options outside the cage are either fruit/veg, or from my hand or from a chair where I'm placing food for them - trying to convince them that lower places in room are still safe - if they don't want those, they go to their cage and out again once they've eaten enough)
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Post by santinoandmondo on Mar 25, 2014 12:50:02 GMT
What a great room set up you have! Glad you found that the kebab set-up works for you. I've never seen a stainless one with an end piece. Is your bamboo lattice two dimensional? How did you secure all the pieces to each other?
Cherry
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Mar 25, 2014 13:25:05 GMT
Oh yes, flock calling is a piercing noise in your ears lol. I hear it every morning :\
very nice set up.
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Post by Emily on Mar 25, 2014 13:33:38 GMT
Wow I love your set up too! All of your birds are so beautiful.
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Post by kmic on Mar 25, 2014 14:57:22 GMT
Thanks guys! I got the kebab from the pet shop in the birds section, don't think it's so uncommon as I've seen it a number of times.
Re the bamboo lattice, yet it's 2d I guess. I just bought the bamboo and used the thinnest wire I found to fasten the parts that overlap. Then to make it more rigid two long pieces of thicker wire from the bottom of the structure to the top. Sorry I don't know how to explain better, if you want I can take pictures though to show you.
How's it going luvs? The level of noise had started to go down no..? Is it back at full blast?
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Post by santinoandmondo on Mar 25, 2014 19:19:51 GMT
Hi, I might have to try wire to secure my wooden dowel "playset". It shifts a little because I used twine but it should be more secure. Was it wire on a spool? Would you take close up of the overlaps?
Thanks,
Cherry
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Post by kmic on Mar 25, 2014 21:49:59 GMT
Will take photos tomorrow morning so that there'll be good light. The wire looks like this: www.andrufastener.com/images/product/Wire1.jpg and comes in different thickness. Another thing I found really good when building the ladders are these hooks: ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61hQ5Zt+ZiL._SL1024_.jpg. They are easy to 'open' using nose-pliers and then close back. I attached them to the chain, but you can attach them to each other just as easily. I think you had sent us a picture of your playset? I'll have to go back to it and think of ways how it can be made more secure. Also, today my 'boing' arrived from amazon (the comfy spiral perch), and I liked their idea, they used cable ties (http://www.cabletiefan.co.uk/cableties/cable_tie_.JPG). They're easy to use and fasten tight and I imagine safe for budgies. (btw love your signature!) |
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Post by santinoandmondo on Mar 25, 2014 22:18:49 GMT
The wire would definitely be more secure than sisal twine. I don't have any wire like that at home so may have to make a trip. I didn't build any ladders but had used a wooden ladder as one side of the play set. Huh, maybe the kebob thing is there but I hadn't considered using one since our bird like itty bitty pieces of veggies.
Please send a photo of your boing all set up too.
(and thanks for the compliment re: the sig)
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Post by kmic on Mar 25, 2014 22:35:00 GMT
Promise pictures tomorrow morning (they haven't yet tried the boing, but it arrived just an hour or so before they started settling in for the night (almost an hour and a half earlier than usual today so I won't blame them) I found the wire at a small hardware store, so I think it shouldn't be difficult to find. Not sure what to ask for coz in Maltese we have different words for the different thickness, but couldn't find a good translation for them hehe. |
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Post by santinoandmondo on Mar 26, 2014 1:25:47 GMT
Wire is sold by "gauge" measurement in the U.S.
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Post by lisamarie on Mar 26, 2014 3:00:42 GMT
I love your room! Have tried shredded carrots with my budgies but never have success. Maybe I'll try just shoving a wedge in the side of the cage xD maybe that will work better (I hope)!!
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Post by Sarah on Mar 26, 2014 7:01:19 GMT
Your budgie jungle gym thing is just fantastic and I am thoroughly jealous  I am so glad that your room is really coming along, and I think I will try to create something like this too! |
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Post by kmic on Mar 26, 2014 9:03:58 GMT
Thanks guys for all your encouragement!! Lisa, my reaction when reading your comment...aaaahhh yes that's how you should say it in English! I really need to brush up my English, since I stopped studying it and usually use Maltese to communicate, my English is going downhill! Jokes apart, yes shredded never worked with these guys, the easier faster solution did the trick apparently. So as promised here are some pictures (sorry for the cleaning stuff - still cleaning the room before getting the budgies out , and don't worry, I do close the windows before I open the cage [but I did attach a photo of the sky this morning from their room ])  Wire keeping the overlaps in place   There are two things in this photo, the wire that goes straight up to make the structure more stable and another wire to attach the ladder to the structure (Oh and I twist the ends into a loop (for all wires, even the thin one) to avoid pointed parts)  Wire going up:  Other end of the wire:  The hook I mentioned for the ladder  Cable tie on boing  The boing (I placed their favourite toy inside it, to try and convince them to go on it asap haha)    |
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Post by santinoandmondo on Mar 26, 2014 11:44:15 GMT
Thank you for all the great photos. I am thoroughly jealous of that sky in Malta that your birds get to view each day and you have a room like this to allow your birds to be free all day safely. Our budgies like to pick on the wood on our windows  so I can't let them stray from the room in which they are kept. I have taped wax paper along the sides of the window frame where they have their play set so we can hear them making noise if they decide to be naughty! p.s. Your English is 100x better than my Maltese will ever be  Cherry |
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Post by bree1818 on Mar 26, 2014 12:00:35 GMT
I love the idea of putting a toy INSIDE the boing. I am going to have to try this...
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Tequila is absolutely trying his best to impress Kermit, and Kermit seems to be enjoying it.
I am so glad that your room is really coming along, and I think I will try to create something like this too!
so I can't let them stray from the room in which they are kept. I have taped wax paper along the sides of the window frame where they have their play set so we can hear them making noise if they decide to be naughty! 
