Please help NEW LORIKEET OWNER

[LorikeetNovice]

Parjarita - vet did look at leg all the way to the joint with abdomen and then at the foot / claw.

Vet speculated he had hurt foot or leg in his new cage - being young and now used to it or skilled at climbing.

Wolf I will take a better photo. And post it here soon. Still keen on any advice as to better cage.

Thanks again, Kim

[Wolf]

Let me say right off that I don't know what is available in Australia for cages or have any idea as to cost as I live in the US. So let's see the Rainbow Lorikeet is the larger of the two species by about 1 inch. The rainbow is 10 inches long ( 25.4 cm ) and the Scaley is 8 in. (22.86 cm). Yours is a hybrid so let's go with the Rainbow Lorikeet.

As an average a bird that is 10 in. (25.4 cm) has a wingspan of 20 in (50.8 cm). The cage that you have is 66 cm X 55 cm X 95 cm or 25.98 in X 21.65 in X 37.4 in. making it a good cage for a sleep cage provided that you have room for a second cage in a room that is usually always quiet for sleeping at night as it has enough room for the bird to stretch its wings out but that is about all.

The recommended minimum size of cage for a parrot is twice their wingspan which in this case is 20 inches or 50.8 cm. so the minimum width is 40 inches or 101.6 cm and the average height of a person is a little more than 5 feet tall or 60 inches or 152.4 cm. This means that the minimum recommended cage size for your bird is 101.6 cm wide X 101.6cm deep X 152.4 cm tall including the stand with a bar spacing of 2.22cm. If you can afford a larger cage than this that would be great for the bird provided that you have the space for it, but I would not increase the bar spacing as you do not want your bird to be able to put its head through the bars. I would also make certain that it has horizontal bars on at least two sides of it. The reason is that cages that only have vertical bare are designed for soft billed birds and may not stand up to a parrots tendency to chew on the bars or grab the bars when climbing around in it.

[Chantilly]

Also I think the cage bars can be smaller than 2.22cm that is just the maximum I will have to measure the cage mine has tommorow (the bar spacing is only about 1cm on mine)