by Wolf » Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:06 am
I broke down and bought one of these perches. I did this because I have two birds that insist on being on me even with the other one already being there. This is fine with me but neither of them want the other on me and I have to be careful that they don't get the opportunity to reach the other one. These two birds are Kiki, Senegal and Kookooloo, CAG and I thought that I would be able to get Kiki to use the perch. No freaking way! At first they were both afraid of it, naturally. Then Kookooloo decided to try it out, that is really unusual and out of the ordinary. Even more unusual is that she really likes it, and asks and stretches to reach it. A month later and Kiki will still not have anything to do with it.
Although it works very well, it was probably not made for a bird as large as a Grey parrot as it is too light and if Kookooloo reaches out to far it needs me to stabilize it or it will tip. That seems easy enough to fix, once I decide which way , that I want to do it. That will depend mostly on where it gets the most use. The other thing about it that I am not certain that I want to fix is that when Kookooloo is on it, the perch rotates in the base really easily. This causes her a small problem as she likes to wipe her beak on my fingers and it spins her when she tries to do this. It is rather funny but I should probably fix it so that it does not do this to her as readily.
The T part of the perch is textured so Kookooloo has no problem with gripping it but as I thought it is completely round which means that I will have to modify that as soon as I decide on how to best do that. and I may try to make a long pole stand from pvc to sit it on to make it even more versatile but have not yet decided on whether I really want to do that or not.
Other than saying that overall I like it despite it shortcomings when used with a parrot the size of a CAG, I can't say any more about it. Well yes I can, I would like it much better if it came in different colors than bright white, I hate white.