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Collection of African Grey Parrot Keeping Tips

Collection of African Grey Parrot Keeping Tips To the cage the rule applies: The larger the better! It should be to clean stable and simple (no decoration or model cages).

Cage dimensions: 85 cm broad, 54 cm depth and 147 cm height, which minimum I consider for an African Grey Parrot, for two African Grey Parrots one should select a larger cage with the dimensions: 100 cm x 75cm x 170cm. These cages have a horizontal bars, which facilitate climbing.

Further parrot cages should open by hinges above, preferable with a stand for the cage, on which it can be rolled onto the terrace or the balcony in the summer easily. The African Grey Parrot cage must be set up in such a way that the grey is not in any draught.

The cage bars of many parrot cages available in the trade are too thin to allow the parrot to wear down its talons properly. The talons of the birds cannot wear themselves out evenly. Therefore one should take thicker branches of fruit trees, oaks or beeches, all with bark where the African Grey Parrot can climb. The diameter should at least 4 cm but even up to 5 cm is ideal. In addition one should diagonally fasten a bar in the cage, on which the bird can climb up and down, thus sharpening its claws even better. If the claws should not wear themselves out despite all enough, you should not cut if the claws. It can lead to injury even with the veterinary surgeon. Therefore we suggest a swing for this purpose. The handle is made of stainless polished high-grade steel, since high-grade steel is food neutral and no contains no poisonous abrasion.

Once in the week the cage should be thoroughly cleaned, including all perches. A climbing tree can be cleaned by hanging it upside down and hosing with water. One can get suitable climbing trees in the autumn in the forest.

Wing clipping: Clipping the wings should be omitted insofar as the African Grey Parrot can be put in a condition where it can no longer determine its flight direction and can dangerously fall or fly against a wall.

Showers is mad for the parrots! Give the parrot a little time around water by itself to get used to water. Take the African Grey Parrot into the shower some days whilst the shower is running. You set it at the best one above on the showering bar, there have it everything in the view. After two days you can make carefully the feet wet for it. You try the next day again and dare yourselves then slowly further forwards. Some parrots let themselves be washed gladly in the wash basin of a dripping or current tap. Afterwards the bird is brought into a warm area, where it can preen itself in peace. For the parrot showering is very important, since the air humidity is very low in our living rooms for it. In cold winters with long heating seasons we have straight times 35 - 40 % air humidity in our areas. In contrast to it they have % air humidity in nature in the jungle ca.90. This glaring difference has the consequence that the skin of the bird can become irritated and begin to itch.

One should try to increase the air humidity in the direct environment of the bird: one can put also a newspaper into the cage drawer and make these wet. It is possible to increase the air humidity by 60 - 65 % increase by water tanks on the heaters or a commercial air moisturizer. That also benefits your health too.