how often do you have to clean a birds cage?

i want to know how often you clean a pakakeets cage bc im getting one.

You don’t need to do a complete cleaning every day, but here’s the most common cleaning schedule I have read about people following, and almost follow myself (I clean a bit more often:

DAILY:
Clean food & water, change out the pan and wipe anything down that’s caked with feces.

WEEKLY or BIWEEKLY or MONTHLY
(monthly at the most… the more you clean the healthier your bird should stay)
Do a complete clean of the cage. Clean and sanitize all perches, bars and toys. This is a good time to inspect that items aren’t breaking to a point where your bird could be injured.

Be sure to place your bird in a different cage or container when cleaning. Birds are very sensitive to sanitizing cleaners. For the daily clean you can use white vinegar diluted with water, but I still put my parrot in a separate cage when using it just to be on the safe side.

How is it possible to keep the area around your birds’ cage clean?

Everyday, I find my birds’ poop and their food on the ground below the cage and it takes me 20 minutes to clean it only to find it dirty again soon after!!! Any advice?

For my birds I have a mesh net around the bottom half of the cage and that keeps the seed shells from going all over my floor. I don’t know if that will help with the poop though. You can always put an old towel or rug on the floor and then either shake it out outside or wash it when it needs it. Hope this helps!

Custom Built Bird Cages – Towa Towa / Canaries / Finches / Small Birds

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Hand Made Custom Built Cages for Finches and Small Birds

Size: Made to order

Materials: Wire and Wood or 100% Wood

Finish: All cages are finished with FDA approved non-toxic lacquer

Features: – Quick access cleaning and filling – Sliding defecation board (poop) – Sliding compartmentalized trough – Outside filling of water cup – Pivoted Flip Door

Price: Please Contact – very reasonably priced

Location: Toronto

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Custom Built Bird Cages – Towa Towa / Canaries / Finches / Small Birds

Bird Cages For Sale

Hand Made Custom Built Cages for Finches and Small Birds

Size: Made to order

Materials: Wire and Wood or 100% Wood

Finish: All cages are finished with FDA approved non-toxic lacquer

Features: – Quick access cleaning and filling – Sliding defecation board (poop) – Sliding compartmentalized trough – Outside filling of water cup – Pivoted Flip Door

Price: Please Contact – very reasonably priced

Location: Toronto

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How can I keep my birds cage door open?

My cocketeil, Alfred, is out right now and the door to his cage won’t stay open, this always happens, I tried a tie, but he chewed on it and I don’t know what to do next. The door has springs, so it won’t open when he is on it, but what if he is out?

just get a metal snap/clip like the ones on the end on dog leashes. I had the same prob with my bird and his cage and just cut the clip off the end of an old dog leash and used that. It worked great and he couldnt chew it up

How can I keep my birds cage door open?

My cocketeil, Alfred, is out right now and the door to his cage won’t stay open, this always happens, I tried a tie, but he chewed on it and I don’t know what to do next. The door has springs, so it won’t open when he is on it, but what if he is out?

just get a metal snap/clip like the ones on the end on dog leashes. I had the same prob with my bird and his cage and just cut the clip off the end of an old dog leash and used that. It worked great and he couldnt chew it up

the Bird Cage for Spirit (part 2)

Hey,

This is the second half of my poem and discussion. I chose two movies only and played them back to back. I wanted to go for nature and MathemArtistry. These are excellent films on their own, and I’m honoured to be able to use them via Creative Commons… Be FREE! Think FREE! Live FREE!

I used an open source video and animation editing software to construct this film, called Jahshaka… GET IT NOW! I used Ableton Live to master the audio from the soundtracks of the films I used with my voice.. notice the reverb effect and nice mesh of audio levels?? Oh yeah, baby… beyond insane and becoming a masterer of audio…..dyo-BOP!

These films can be found at www.archive.org
1st film: Lost in Paradise (gaia_chakras.mov)

These videos feature the beauty and wisdom of nature and people. They are produced by students the Alaska Wilderness School as part of our Spiritual Warrior Training.

Producer: David Michael Lakota Ravenfire
Keywords: alaska; spiritual warriror training; nature; people; mystery; wilderness; education

Creative Commons license: Attribution

2nd film: the emergence of beauty in science, nature and art

abstract art music video – As an information-gatherer and adventurous mind, my visual thinking and aesthetic dimensions and imaginary number fields are influenced by reason and magic, math and myth, physics and psychology. The hand of an artist or natures dynamics are the origin of my paintings and compositions, from where the imagery and music is spinning into a concerto of new motions and subtle variations. Natural, computer-generated, man-made are inseparable categories in this process of entangled interactions, body signals, dreams and synchronicities. Painting-computing is both math and psychology. The video, Parado’s Density in Motion Picture is to be understood cosmocentrically as flowing from the All. The self extends itself, viewed cosmically As an information-gatherer and adventurous mind, my visual thinking and aesthetic dimensions and imaginary number fields are influenced by reason and magic, math and myth, physics and psychology. The hand of an artist or natures dynamics are the origin of my paintings and compositions, from where the imagery and music is spinning into a concerto of new motions and subtle variations. Natural, computer-generated, man-made are inseparable categories in this process of entangled interactions, body signals, dreams and synchronicities. Painting-computing is both math and psychology. The video, Parado’s Density in Motion Picture is to be understood cosmocentrically as flowing from the All. The self extends itself, viewed cosmically, out into the whole world

Producer: Paco F. Parado
Keywords: mathemArtist

Creative Commons license: Attribution

I assert the will to maintain a creative commons licence on absolutely everything I express. Experiment with me… ;D

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News paper or sand for my birds cage?

Can you use sand instead of news paper in your birds cage? I have a pull out tray with a metal guard thing above any way, so could I use sand instead, to make cleaning easier?

Paper is better. Sand is a LOT harder to keep clean and it’s a lot HEAVIER, and it’ll end up warping or even cracking the tray. You can also buy corncob litter, but newspaper is more economical, because you get that almost for nothing every single day (if you subscribe).

the Bird Cage for Spirit (poem reading)

I have schizophrenia. This poem is about my experience and interpretation of schizophrenia, in a poetic manner.

Please enjoy and give feedback.

The Birdcage for Spirit — by Brenden MacDonald

My mind breaks things apart
and sequences impossible order
to the meaningfully spontaneous.
I perceive a strange message conveying
while break-mind intervenes, inadvertently,
“breaking the spirit’s focus from mind and body,”
one sense I have of schizophrenia.
Blinded by internal events too intense,
I easily wander lost seeking reasons outside
for my beautiful dreaming deep within.

A shared realm entertains transformation,
and I abide by the dynamic of biology,
mind, emotion, and soul.
Those reversed call for freedom,
response, articulation, and creativity.

If I ever forget my spirit, my freedom,
and reduce merely my dimensions to three,
break-mind squeezes my breath closed,
forces a halt.
I needed to accept a cosmic origin,
that I’m not just a meaningless chance.
If this world follows only physical mechanism,
and no soul-space has a you-essence,
where could real love live and who’d wait for true love?

To escape the clutches
of unstopping nihilist reduction
in this real struggle
for sane meaning
and in this yearning for my source,
my mind found a door to open
and I could let in my imaginings,
to find the embrace
of spontaneous expression.
And I could watch on this side of the door,
as this side of the world did turn
into a magic poem I could read.
The door to spirit slid open for me,
and I could disappear out there completely,
until then leaving it open,
letting the cool and warm airs of spirit fill my world,
airs of that open world that help fill physics with life,
with vitality, with my breath ongoing,
for the drawing and passing of air entices life
into our midst.
Pursue the lessons, oh, the joys, of symbiosis!

Schizophrenia for me has been a war against myself
and those devices planted in my brain, but hold on,
because I am not paranoid! I planted them myself;
they’re devices for repression and devices for delusion.
One invents a device when a method of thinking is discovered, a method to organize meaning. Keeping in mind that I’ve never been able to well organize my room, my sentences, or organize my future, one could easily see the potential confusion for my mind released to wild nature. I feel at odds with my environment, extremely feel odd for sure. Do you want to know my biggest delusion? I believed our society was one grand illusion, for I couldn’t believe in extreme impiety, the kind of society itself broken from reality, the kind of society abhorrent to social, emotional, or racial inclusion, a society that stomped Earth’s biodiversity and stomped on fellow global citizens in holy wars of greed and creed.
I became so deluded, because I wouldn’t believe in true evil. I made up a story that some god had weird plans, and now forgetting that, I still won’t agree to see evil thru to its end.

Please: if you dig this poem,
go to dance and sing some music,
and make love, communicate.
In my waiting out storms schizophrenic,
I longed to experience this world’s sunlight again.
Feel the amazing release of your light,
deeply profound in every moment
because, really, you see, I’ve been meaning to explore and surrender to experiential discovery.

Gaia asks for tears, you pheonix,
so heal Earth with love on a never-ending quest.
Seek freedom in the sadness for the beauty that we are;
go emerge,
you can fly free from your cage….

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the Bird Cage for Spirit (poem reading)

I have schizophrenia. This poem is about my experience and interpretation of schizophrenia, in a poetic manner.

Please enjoy and give feedback.

The Birdcage for Spirit — by Brenden MacDonald

My mind breaks things apart
and sequences impossible order
to the meaningfully spontaneous.
I perceive a strange message conveying
while break-mind intervenes, inadvertently,
“breaking the spirit’s focus from mind and body,”
one sense I have of schizophrenia.
Blinded by internal events too intense,
I easily wander lost seeking reasons outside
for my beautiful dreaming deep within.

A shared realm entertains transformation,
and I abide by the dynamic of biology,
mind, emotion, and soul.
Those reversed call for freedom,
response, articulation, and creativity.

If I ever forget my spirit, my freedom,
and reduce merely my dimensions to three,
break-mind squeezes my breath closed,
forces a halt.
I needed to accept a cosmic origin,
that I’m not just a meaningless chance.
If this world follows only physical mechanism,
and no soul-space has a you-essence,
where could real love live and who’d wait for true love?

To escape the clutches
of unstopping nihilist reduction
in this real struggle
for sane meaning
and in this yearning for my source,
my mind found a door to open
and I could let in my imaginings,
to find the embrace
of spontaneous expression.
And I could watch on this side of the door,
as this side of the world did turn
into a magic poem I could read.
The door to spirit slid open for me,
and I could disappear out there completely,
until then leaving it open,
letting the cool and warm airs of spirit fill my world,
airs of that open world that help fill physics with life,
with vitality, with my breath ongoing,
for the drawing and passing of air entices life
into our midst.
Pursue the lessons, oh, the joys, of symbiosis!

Schizophrenia for me has been a war against myself
and those devices planted in my brain, but hold on,
because I am not paranoid! I planted them myself;
they’re devices for repression and devices for delusion.
One invents a device when a method of thinking is discovered, a method to organize meaning. Keeping in mind that I’ve never been able to well organize my room, my sentences, or organize my future, one could easily see the potential confusion for my mind released to wild nature. I feel at odds with my environment, extremely feel odd for sure. Do you want to know my biggest delusion? I believed our society was one grand illusion, for I couldn’t believe in extreme impiety, the kind of society itself broken from reality, the kind of society abhorrent to social, emotional, or racial inclusion, a society that stomped Earth’s biodiversity and stomped on fellow global citizens in holy wars of greed and creed.
I became so deluded, because I wouldn’t believe in true evil. I made up a story that some god had weird plans, and now forgetting that, I still won’t agree to see evil thru to its end.

Please: if you dig this poem,
go to dance and sing some music,
and make love, communicate.
In my waiting out storms schizophrenic,
I longed to experience this world’s sunlight again.
Feel the amazing release of your light,
deeply profound in every moment
because, really, you see, I’ve been meaning to explore and surrender to experiential discovery.

Gaia asks for tears, you pheonix,
so heal Earth with love on a never-ending quest.
Seek freedom in the sadness for the beauty that we are;
go emerge,
you can fly free from your cage….

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