OUR MEMBERS HAVE SHARED THEIR IDEAS AND REMEDIES, KEEP IN MIND THAT WHAT WORKS FOR ONE BREEDER MAY NOT WORK FOR ANOTHER. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE IDEAS SHARED HERE, WE ALL CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.
INDEX:
Hanging food treats ideas
Spray Millet hanging idea
Dry white bread is always exciting
Sunflower is always a hit
Foraging is fun and creates activity
Use rope to decorate and create activity
Foraging and enjoyment for birds
Keeping birds active and healthy
Hanging fresh fruit for feeding and activity
Keeping birds warm
Pansies are fun
Another foraging idea for exercise
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Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Hanging treats ideas
Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Spray Millet idea
Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Dry white bread is also exciting.
Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Sunflower is always a hit.
Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Making foraging fun!
Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen. Use rope to decorate exciting bird-friendly aviaries with loosely hanging branches.
But always use natural rope (not nylon rope) such as jute rope, which is easy to work with.
Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Keeping birds active by adding enjoyment and foraging to their daily lives.
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Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Keeping birds active and healthy.
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Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Hanging fresh fruit for feeding and activity.
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KEEPING BIRDS WARM (Courtesy Marilena Salmones)
If you want to keep a cage or aviary section warm for birds that either are moulting or not feeling well putting a low wattage bulb on the outside of the cage may help in keeping the birds warm.
Gouldians when they are moulting they run the risk of dying if they lose too much body heat. The lamps on the outside of the cage or aviary may help in keeping them warm. Some birds will seek the warmth and will perch close to the heat. If you place the heat lamp on the outside of the cage and place it where the birds can get heat on the bottom of the cage instead of perching it will be better for those birds that feel weaker plus more birds can take advantage of the heat if there’s more space for them to stand.
Some birds when they are breeding they may come out of the nest at night and the light helps them get back in the nest. Also, some young birds may be left out of the nest and when lights go out they can’t see to get back in the nest and they get cold.
Using a clamp lamp helps to place it outside of a cage or aviary. Use a low wattage clear RED incandescent bulb.
*IMPORTANT – only an incandescent low wattage, 25 Watts bulb should be used. New energy saving bulbs do not give off heat like inca de debt bulbs.
Using the color red helps when the room is dark and also doesn’t disturb the ambiance of “nighttime”.
It’s effective and works well with all types of birds but make sure you place it ONLY on the outside of the cage or aviary.
The clamp lamp can be found at Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart, any hardware store or online.
25 Watts red incandescent bulb, do not use any higher wattage than 25 Watts.
The clear colored incandescent bulb 25 Watts can be purchased at any store that sells lights and bulbs or online.
USING A HEATING PAD
If you want to use a heating pad for a sick bird make sure to move the bird to a cage. Place the heating pad under the cage with a towel covering the heating pad. ONLY use it in LOW setting and make sure one side of the cage doesn’t have the heating pad so if the bird gets too hot it can go to the other side. Especially with birds with injuries that cannot fly to the perch, they need to move to the side where there’s no heat.
Putting the heating pad under the cage and only on one side of the bottom of the cage will give the injured bird the opportunity to move away from the heat if it gets too hot.
*IMPORTANT – use only low setting and a heating pad that doesn’t turn off automatically after a certain amount of time, otherwise the bird will get cold.
Make sure the heating pad has the option to leave in without turning off after a certain amount of time.
ALWAYS KEEP AN EYE ON INJURED BIRDS AND THAT THE HEATING PAD OR LAMPS ARE NOT GETTING TOO HOT.
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Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Pansies are fun
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Courtesy Ulf Roland Andersen – Another foraging idea for exercise.
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