bird rooms?

[GMV]

I am thinking of a bird room and I think I can do it but I would like to know some pros and cons of them and everyone's opinion on them. Do they cause jeaoulosy, plucking, or agression? Can it be a danger to the smaller parrots?

[Pajarita]

I think a birdroom is the best you can offer captive birds as long as it's not a room where you just have a number of individual birds housed each in their own cage -that's not a 'birdroom' it's a 'cageroom').

In my personal experience, the biggest problems (jealousy, aggression) always arise when birds are in cages. Take away the jails and birds do 500 times better themselves and with each other.

I am planning two new birdrooms in the attic and they will have skylights, the largest windows I can fit in the walls and two ceiling fixtures (full spectrum and UV lights), glued-down linoleum for flooring (easy to clean, durable, inexpensive and the birds cannot dig into it or chew it), with a 12 inch tile base border (so mice cannot get in), fiberglass panels on the walls (so the birds cannot chew them). They will have radiators (steam furnace) for heat in the winter and air-conditioners for the summer (I am also installing attic fans but it can get real hot up in the attic). I have two small tree trunks in my backyard that I am saving for big perches and the metal platforms will be hung with steel cable from hooks embedded in the roof beams. And, if I can swing it, a shallow water fountain in the middle of the room.

[GMV]

What if it were between a "cage room'' or different rooms for each of the cages? I don't think I'm getting a whole room for each bird any time soon because my family does not want it, and I don't want lily out of her cage in the same room as the other birds for obvious reasons.

[GMV]

what i mean is which one would be better, if i can only do a "cage room" or no one room at all?
and does anyone on the forum have a room with all the bird cages in it and if so how do you like it?

[marie83]

Ok I can't answer specifically because I don't have one and never have had one but I wanted to put down some thoughts down on here as I've always thought I wanted one and maybe some of it may apply to you.

-Personally I see a room without cages or one filled with cages as the same thing- a bird room if it is used for the purpose of housing birds.

-My own birds will always have their own cages for their own safety and in my own opinion all parrots should be used to being in a cage for a period of time as it will then be less stressful if they ever have to be caged in future (sorry but you do never know what's around the corner, even the best laid out plans can only go so far)

-I wouldn't combine large and small species loose in the same room at the same time unless under very close supervision.

-a birdroom is a good thing as birds need as much space as we can give them, even the smallest room is generally much bigger than a cage.

-my birds are currently kept in our living room which offers twice as much flying space as any other room in the flat. When we are in the birds are usually out unless the sun has set then they are locked in for night. On an average day the maximum amount of hours we are both out the house is 6 so most days they are already out their cages most of the time in daylight hours.

-if we had a birdroom I would still have to bring them in to the living room anyway for indirect interaction as this is where "life" happens. If not I would have to take my laptop and work into the birdroom and have a little office there which kind of defeats the object of it being a birdroom if there's other stuff in there to damage.

-if we had more than 4 birds at any time in the future like I've had in the past I would definitely 100% have a bird room though as they would get more stimulation from each other and they would take turns to come into the living room (a few at a time depending on the birds/numbers) or I would spend more time in there.

-At the moment with my current number of birds and the number of hours in the day they aren't cage bound then I don't really see a huge benefit in going to the expense of building a birdroom as I would rather save their money for vet bills if needed and I would rather have them "involved" in everyday life by them being where we are. If I was a rich person though I would still have one and just put them in the birdroom when we were out-even if that wasn't for very long.

[GMV]

Thanks, marie!!!
I am well aware of the dangers and they won'the be out at the same time. We also plan on fostering to help out the rescue. We take our birds a all over the house And they never stay in one room all day.
The room is about 160 square feet so I thino it will do.

[Tman007]

GMV I have a bedroom that I call my birdroom. I have a GCC and a jenday conure. They are in their own cages. The GCC thinks he's nine feet tall and bulletproof. LOL I will take some pictures of it and post them for you.

[GMV]

GMV I have a bedroom that I call my birdroom. I have a GCC and a jenday conure. They are in their own cages. The GCC thinks he's nine feet tall and bulletproof. LOL I will take some pictures of it and post them for you.

Classic GCC!
I would love to see pics.

[Tman007]

Ok I have your pictures for you. The room is 10'x12'. what I did was I put down carpeting or the carpet that was in the room. The green carpet if you can see it, that way not to worried about poop. I still use newspaper to cover areas like the perches. the cages are on one side of the room. I have a table in one corner with a three drawer storage unit so I can keep their stuff in there. If you look you can see I put a frame around the window that holds the plywood to block out the lights at night. The Vegas lights and street lights light up the room to much so by putting the wood over the window at night they can get some good sleep. I have a rope perch that goes from one end of the room to the next so they can look out the window when the want. I made a perch so I can work with them. I have the chair and table between the two perches so that one can be on one side of me, and one on the other side. They don't like each other, but as long as I keep them apart they will not try and get each other. I all so have a small air purifier in the room. I am still working on the room but I hope this helps you out. One more thing the reason they are in a room I have a cat also. I also have a latch on the door so when I go in the room my cat can't open the door.

[GMV]

Thanks, this is good info, and your birds are adorable!