by Natacha » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:40 pm
While I agree that bigger is better (and taking bar spacing into consideration), I also feel like other factors come into play, the biggest one being how long is the bird out of it's cage daily?
If the answer is not much, then by all means, get the biggest cage you can afford. If the bird gets out for a couple of hours, then you don't need as big.
My Pois are in 24 x 22 x whatever height (can never remember). They use every inch of it, even the vertical space (and there is quite a bit of it). When I first got Shade, she was in a 18 x 18 x whatever height cage. She was a clumsy baby, she had had a broken leg and it took her a while to get comfortable going around after it healed. The moment I saw her moving without any issues, I went bigger. I still use that first cage when my birds are being watched over at my parents or when I watch over a friend's Poi, but I wouldn't use it as a daily cage, it just seems small. And my birds tend to be out a minimum of 3 hours a day, often more.