Michael wrote:Seems really void of perches and the bars look really thin for a Cape. How's that working out? Not so much concerned that the bird will bend them (although possible) but that if you hang heavy horizontal perches from the side that it will bend the bars. It's already bad enough with the aluminum but it's a lot thicker so it's holding up.
The bars are thick and solid - these pictures were taken with a wide-angle lens which distorts pictures a bit. They are 3/16" thick and Léa has been beaking them and they are NOT budging - there is absolutely no bending. I would feel totally secure to hang a perch from side to side, if I wanted to - the bars would perfectly be able to support the added weight. In fact, the flagstone perch I have in the back right hand side of the cage is QUITE heavy, heavier than any full length rope/branch perch I have ever held and it's holding on just fine, and the weight is really concentrated on that one spot - a horizontal perch would have it's weight distributed onto two panels. I have also opted out of a fully horizontal perch as I had one in Léa's previous cage and she hardly used it (she would use all the other peripheral perches to get around and the middle one, being underneath things, would only end up getting soiled). This stainless steel cage is definitively more solid/secure than the Kings Cage aluminum travel cages I have.
If you had bothered reading my blog post (or even what I wrote in my first post) you would have seen that I mentioned that I kept things to a minimum at first, to get Léa accustomed to the cage and will add perches/toys as I see fit. Again, the wide-angle wasn't necessarily helping in this case, but she has 7 perches made of different materials, one of which has 3 branches, and she's quite capable of moving around with no problem. I intentionally wanted to give her plenty of "free" space to move around, which also allows her swing to move unencumbered (and this provides an additional perch NOT counted in the aforementioned 7) which is a good thing.
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