Quick tour of Tori’s cage...

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Took this video for my own personal reference but thought I would share it. And yes I know that there are a lot of people who have had bad experiences with the “happy hut”. I inspect it daily for any damage and it is intentionally placed at the bottom of her cage so that it is not used as a sleeping spot but more as a tunnel toy. :)

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Nice setup, lots of toys and places to climb, Tori must be a happy bird. I've never had any issues with those kinds of huts. :)
 

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A well oufitted house for sure, Tori has plenty to keep her busy. As an aside, the huts also have a side effect thatt hens, inparticular are prone to hormone triggers by dark, close quarters like those foundon huts, empty boxes and even under beds/sofas and some in open drawers. I've never had a female parrot so this is only what i"ve read, but seems the cons outweigh the pros on them.

Hut notwithstanding, she must have a busy day playing with all of those toys! Lucky lil birdy.
 
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I should have thought of this a LONG time ago!
 

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Those little cat toys (the plastic balls with bell-like things inside of them) are my GCC’s FAVORITE toys. I have them hanging by string and ropes all over the place. My GCC will grab onto the string and shake the heck out of it to make the ball produce its sounds. Sometimes my GCC likes to pick fights with those balls, grab them with her beak and fling them then she will get all offended when the ball comes back to her. Her feathers up like a blow fish, she lets that ball have it again. The ones I don’t have hanging by ropes and strings, she will play with even on her back. She LOVES those things. And they are cheap toys...


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Those little cat toys (the plastic balls with bell-like things inside of them) are my GCC’s FAVORITE toys. I have them hanging by string and ropes all over the place. My GCC will grab onto the string and shake the heck out of it to make the ball produce its sounds. Sometimes my GCC likes to pick fights with those balls, grab them with her beak and fling them then she will get all offended when the ball comes back to her. Her feathers up like a blow fish, she lets that ball have it again. The ones I don’t have hanging by ropes and strings, she will play with even on her back. She LOVES those things. And they are cheap toys...


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Yeah, she goes into a bit of a frenzy with them too...I keep 4 of them in one of the stainless steel cups on top of her cage and we play the “I’ll toss them out, you put them back in” game frequently!
 

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Those little cat toys (the plastic balls with bell-like things inside of them) are my GCC’s FAVORITE toys. I have them hanging by string and ropes all over the place. My GCC will grab onto the string and shake the heck out of it to make the ball produce its sounds. Sometimes my GCC likes to pick fights with those balls, grab them with her beak and fling them then she will get all offended when the ball comes back to her. Her feathers up like a blow fish, she lets that ball have it again. The ones I don’t have hanging by ropes and strings, she will play with even on her back. She LOVES those things. And they are cheap toys...





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Yeah, she goes into a bit of a frenzy with them too...I keep 4 of them in one of the stainless steel cups on top of her cage and we play the “I’ll toss them out, you put them back in” game frequently!



I was just now able to view the video. Your conure looks exactly like mine. I’ve been calling her a cinnamon green cheek conure but perhaps she is really a pineapple, like yours. Kudos on the cage! A reflection of the parront’s love!

I want to get a larger cage for my girl. In fact, I would love to make her a cage myself, out of wooden dowels. Out of all of the toys I have bought her, only the cat toys were successful in capturing her attention. However, I made her a 6 foot tall tower with a spiraling stair case, out of wooden dowels, which I augmented with 3/8 inch nylon rope. My girl LOVES the rope. Sure, she could climb the spiraling staircase one step at a time, and go down the same way: that’s what she does when she is in a hurry. But what she LOVES to do is climb up and down the ropes, and perch upon rope that is horizontal. I think it makes her feel more “birdly.” We call it her tree. I would imagine you could accomplish the same thing with ropes if you ever felt like attempting to outdo yourself in the effort to spoil your bird.


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I was just now able to view the video. Your conure looks exactly like mine. I’ve been calling her a cinnamon green cheek conure but perhaps she is really a pineapple, like yours. Kudos on the cage! A reflection of the parront’s love!

I want to get a larger cage for my girl. In fact, I would love to make her a cage myself, out of wooden dowels. Out of all of the toys I have bought her, only the cat toys were successful in capturing her attention. However, I made her a 6 foot tall tower with a spiraling stair case, out of wooden dowels, which I augmented with 3/8 inch nylon rope. My girl LOVES the rope. Sure, she could climb the spiraling staircase one step at a time, and go down the same way: that’s what she does when she is in a hurry. But what she LOVES to do is climb up and down the ropes, and perch upon rope that is horizontal. I think it makes her feel more “birdly.” We call it her tree. I would imagine you could accomplish the same thing with ropes if you ever felt like attempting to outdo yourself in the effort to spoil your bird.


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The easiest way to tell the difference between a cinnamon and a pineapple is the amount of yellow on the body and especially under the wing area. Check out the pictures on this website...it has some great examples of the different mutations.

Green-cheeked Conures ? Avian Resources

Also, as far as toys go, have you tried anything with the shredded krinkled up paper? Tori LOVES that stuff!
 
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So, there has been a new development since I added the rope to Tori’s playtop. I have always kept a variety of small plastic objects, bits of cardboard, wooden and plastic bead, etc. up there with a few pellets and a little bit of crushed up nutriberry mixed in. The idea was to give her something to dig through to get a bit of food or a small treat. It was never a complete success because she would only walk around the edges on the metal frame. However, since I added the rope a couple of days ago, she will walk ALL OVER the top of her cage! It is now one of her favorite pastimes! Not sure exactly why this is (though I suspect it has to do with having an easy escape route), but I’m loving that she can entertain herself this way now!
 

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So, there has been a new development since I added the rope to Tori’s playtop. I have always kept a variety of small plastic objects, bits of cardboard, wooden and plastic bead, etc. up there with a few pellets and a little bit of crushed up nutriberry mixed in. The idea was to give her something to dig through to get a bit of food or a small treat. It was never a complete success because she would only walk around the edges on the metal frame. However, since I added the rope a couple of days ago, she will walk ALL OVER the top of her cage! It is now one of her favorite pastimes! Not sure exactly why this is (though I suspect it has to do with having an easy escape route), but I’m loving that she can entertain herself this way now!



Glad you figured out something that makes your conure happy. I checked out the link you supplied and mine is definitely a cinnamon.


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Tori’s new cage light came in today...I love my Prevue cage but with the playtop tray on top it sure was dark inside!

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Again, I envy your cage! This is what I was talking about with the “ropes” my conure loves. When my conure is behaving, she’ll run down to the foot of the bed and get on one of her perches in order to poop. The two perches on both sides of the tree I created in order to teach my conure to fly from one perch to another, each time widening the gap between them. When not being used for that purpose, they make great poop stations.


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Again, I envy your cage! This is what I was talking about with the “ropes” my conure loves. When my conure is behaving, she’ll run down to the foot of the bed and get on one of her perches in order to poop. The two perches on both sides of the tree I created in order to teach my conure to fly from one perch to another, each time widening the gap between them. When not being used for that purpose, they make great poop stations.


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WOW!!!:32: I am SO impressed! You have schematics for that thing? Now I feel like constructing something fabulous...don’t think I’d be so amazingly successful though LOL!
 

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Again, I envy your cage! This is what I was talking about with the “ropes” my conure loves. When my conure is behaving, she’ll run down to the foot of the bed and get on one of her perches in order to poop. The two perches on both sides of the tree I created in order to teach my conure to fly from one perch to another, each time widening the gap between them. When not being used for that purpose, they make great poop stations.





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WOW!!!:32: I am SO impressed! You have schematics for that thing? Now I feel like constructing something fabulous...don’t think I’d be so amazingly successful though LOL!



No schematics. I have a drill press and made two blocks by drilling through two by four scraps. Into those blocks, I laid a six foot long, thick dowell (1 1/4 or 1 1/2, in diameter, I don’t recall). Using a two-inch strip of sandpaper that I cut to cover the circumference of the dowel, and a piece of tape, I created a ring, a ring that became a jig. I slipped that ring around the end of the six foot long dowel. I used a pencil to draw perfect circles around the dowel every two inches. I also made two marks on the edge of that sandpaper ring, using a sharpy pen, one mark being located exactly one-inch from another sharpy mark on the edge of the sand-paper ring. Using the two marks on the edge of the sandpaper ring, I was able to transfer marks over each ring I’d penciled in, onto the dowel; in so doing, I ensured that each mark on each ring penciled onto the dowel, was exactly two inches higher and exactly one inch to the left from the last marking on the dowel. This is just how I decided to go about evenly staggering the holes I was about to drill. Each mark I made on the dowel, using my ring jig, became a drill mark on the thick wooden dowel.

The blocks I made out of pieces of two-by-four’s that I cut down two equal size on my miter saw. I drilled a hole through the center of each of the blocks. That hole was created using a hole saw bit that was the same diameter as the thick dowel rod I bought from the store. I clamped down both blocks, using wood clamps. Into those blocks, through the holes, I had created perfect braces for free floating the thick wooden dowel beneath my drill press.

As I drilled holes, I simply spung the dowel beneath the brace blocks and drilled holes on the marks.

I think I used a half-inch drill bit, to drill all of those evenly staggered holes. I also purchased about dozens of 30 feet of 1/2-inch dowels. Using the fence I set on my upright bandsaw to repeatedly enable me to cut my 1/2-inch dowel into one-foot sections every time, I cut exactly 30, one-foot long sections of 1/2-inch dowel.

I used a wooden mallet to pound each of the one-foot long dowel sections through the 30 holes I’d drilled through the thick wooden dowel ( 6-foot long by 1 1/4-inch or 1 1/2-inch diameter). A little wood glue solidifies the bond. This created a spiraling staircase for the bird. That itself, without more, was highly entertaining for the conure.

I drilled this wooden dowel into the top piece of a small wooden platform. I screwed castor wheels onto the bottom side of the wooden platform so that my wife and I can pull or push this tree around, at ease because of the wheels.

On the top, I used a four-inch diameter hole saw bit to cut a circular cookie out of some spare piece of 1x6. I drilled some 3/8 inch holes into that cookie, screwed the cookie onto the top of the thick dowel rod, then pounded in some 3/8-inch diameter sections of dowel rod into that cookie in order to make some spokes for the top.

After that, I just went hog wild crazy with several hundred feet of 3/8-inch diameter nylon rope. The more rope, the better! My conure loves the rope! She loves it! To make this tree even more irresistible, I have hung several cat toys on the tree. She loves to shake them and yell at them.

Did that make sense or should I have been more sober?


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So it was WAY past time for a complete reworking of Tori’s cage...came up with some new uses for boings! Now she has a total of 4 boings. One hanging vertically inside her cage, one hanging horizontally inside her cage, one that hangs from the playtop outside her cage that lets her get from inside her cage to the playtop, and since she is not flighted and every now and then falls to the floor from her playtop, she now has a boing on the outside of he cage that allows her to climb from the floor to the seed guard.

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Again, I envy your cage! This is what I was talking about with the “ropes” my conure loves. When my conure is behaving, she’ll run down to the foot of the bed and get on one of her perches in order to poop. The two perches on both sides of the tree I created in order to teach my conure to fly from one perch to another, each time widening the gap between them. When not being used for that purpose, they make great poop stations.


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I have to built one of those for my cockatiels, they tend to prefer the tree I built a year ago. That a nice rope setup.
 
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I’m not quite sure if she’s trying to make spider webs for Halloween or if she’s starting early on the fake snow :)


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