by Pajarita » Fri Jan 18, 2019 1:12 pm
No, quite the contrary, they are most needed when the weather is cold because all types of heating dry up the air. Actually, during the summer, I don't even have them (I have one in each bird room *) on, I just leave the windows open and the natural humidity in the air is good enough for them - especially this last year that was the wettest on record!
If you would not mind, could you post the results of the tests here so I can look at them? I am not a vet but I've had soooooo many CBCs and chempanels done that, if by nothing else than mere repetition throughout the years, I have learned a little bit about how to read them.
* I don't have a humidifier in either the living room or the dining room where I also have birds BUT what I do is bathe the species I can (not the ones that react to frequent baths by producing sexual hormones - senegals are not one of them) more often AND I place a soaking wet paper in each bottom trays so, as the air dries it up, humidity will rise into the cage. This, sometimes, produces an unholy mess in the tray (especially in the quaker's because she loves to pull the paper through the grid to chew on it) but I just rinse it in the kitchen sink and put another piece of wet paper there (the trick is never to allow the paper to dry completely because, if you do, it will stick to the tray as if glued -you can still get it out by soaking and scraping it but it's more work and I always try to eliminate all the 'extra' work).