Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 7:41 am Post subject: Sleeping habits-
Hello you lot!
I have a silly question, and am asking it more out of curiosity than stupidity!
How do your birds roost overnight?
One of mine prefers to sit on a fresh branch with leaves all around, while the other prefers a 'shelf' right at the top of the cage.
Yours?
Aj sleeps in a nest ( still waiting for egss to hatch)
Sarah sleeps on top of the nest box
Sammi either sleeps behind the nest box Via her beak or in another box
Fred either sleeps on a perch or in an old flower pot.
some of my kikes seem to enjoy hanging around the side walls rather than perching, I don't know if later into the night they still move around.
Some others sleep in the feeding trays which doesn't make me happy because they can get a night fright by predators.
I have always discouraged them of doing it but doesn't work.
For the last few months weve given them kakariki condos, they started out as cardboard tubes, recently we upgraded them to sawn up drain pipe. They love them and crawl right in at night out of sight.
I believe in the wild kakariki, when not nesting, bunch up in groups in clumps of foliage.
Also notice this in our flights, When we have a good sized flock established in the holding fights the do this...If the flock, social structure hasnt yet been established the roost more individually. _________________ My Spelling is Not Incorrect...It's 'Creative'
one of the cages we got for Brady came with a hamster wheel.. He immediately made it his bed. So we went and got a second one for his downstairs cage. Not only does he love sleeping in them but he thinks he's a hampster and spins it round and round.
We have pet rat wheels. (same thing but we dont have hampsters in NZ) in several of our flights...introduced after a post on toys many years back. _________________ My Spelling is Not Incorrect...It's 'Creative'
Our original cardboard 'condos' got chewed away so we upgraded to plastic drain pipe, the 7 birds in this aviary all choose to sleep in the pipes, often one per pipe but sometimes three in a pipe, one at each end and one in the middle! As you can see, some choose to climb right in and some choose to be half-in. This is a family group, two adults and the rest are 6mths to 1 yr old offspring (and one completely unrelated male).
I like that...cool idea.
What size pipe is that?
Im sure I have a very long lendth of about 100 mm laying around somewhere.
Gess what I will be doing in the near future _________________ My Spelling is Not Incorrect...It's 'Creative'
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