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| 158.1 | beware | NEXUS::M_ROBSON | News item from the Banzia Institute | Mon Apr 10 1989 17:22 | 4 |
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Be warned that most all hookbills (including budgies) LOVE to chew
on wood.
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| 158.2 | Pretty but impractical | GENRAL::NAUGHTON | | Mon Apr 10 1989 17:51 | 4 |
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Wood cages are beautiful but impractical for the health of the bird.
Wood is harder to keep clean then metal and you can't properly
disinfect it if you need to.
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| 158.3 | | CSC32::K_WORKMAN | Hand picked by Juan Valdez | Mon Apr 10 1989 18:13 | 11 |
| For the finches, it wouldn't be a big problem. For the budgies
it would.
I won two budgies at a Bird Club Meeting and had to keep them in
one of my spare finch breeding cages over night. The breeding cages
are wire mesh, but we made a wooden bottom with a linolium liner
for these cages for easy cleanup. They couldn't get to the linolium,
but could get to the wood lip and in just one night, they made
noticeable damage.
Karen
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| 158.4 | YAH , BUT.... | POLAR::FERGUSONR | | Tue Apr 11 1989 15:37 | 22 |
| SO-O-O-O-O-O,
if i want to be pig headed about it, stay with the store bought
wire cages for the budgees ( and the bloody canary she's going to
pick up tonight = 5 birds total) and build a wooden one for the
finches.
re: wooden one for the finches
the book i bought at the time a got the birds , says aprox. 1-2
cubic feet per bird and when more than 1 cubic foot total make the
floor the largest of the three dimensions.
presume 1/8 or 1/4 inch maple dowel with max. of 1/4 inch space
between bars will suffice.
BTW- the book suggests having two or 6 or more per cage , but not
3,4 or 5 as they will gang up on the runt . is this likely?
thks,
Bob F.
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| 158.5 | Large quantities of finches | NYFS01::CHERYL | Cheryl McGinty | Fri Apr 14 1989 13:12 | 10 |
| re .4
I had problems with having 4 finches in a cage. I now have 7 and
they do fight occasionaly, but there are so many to fight with that
there are always 3 or 4 with bald patches.....no deaths (knock on
wood) as when I just had 3 or 4 in a cage.
good luck.
Cheryl
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