HELP Information needed re Featherland s/s cages

[Indigo23]

Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum and I live in Australia. I am in need of help for any information from members who have a Featherland stainless steel cage as my Quaker chews her powder coated cage. I will apologise in advance for so many questions but if anyone can provide any information and recommendations, I would be extremely grateful.

Any recommendations for which size is best for my quaker? I was looking at small or medium size. The small looks to small but the bar spacing is better and the medium is more room for her but the bar spacing is wider and the cage is heavier(32kilo). Could the bar spacing and frame spacing be too wide for my quaker to squeeze her head in ?

I have read that there seems to be lot of issues with the featherland castor wheels falling off and breaking and possibly the sockets etc. And I was hoping to find from members who have had this issue and how they have rectified It, hopefully permanently.

If they have replaced the castor wheels (to a more durable one) & plastic sockets. What type of castor wheels and sockets and size. Does anyone know what size the replacement castor push-in stem length & diameter are?

Did they use a single or double castor wheel?

What was the replacement castor wheel made from ie plastic, rubber, polyurethane?

I do require to move this cage daily on to 3 different floor types being carpet, tile and hybrid which I know is not ideal for a heavy stainless steel cage with wheel issues. My biggest concern is the cage collapsing or tilting from the wheel issues.

Does the cage lock in securely once the frame is erected ie with locks or latches

Does the cage come delivered coated in a plastic film. If so is it difficult to take and clean off ? I thought I read something but it might have been a different stainless-steel cage ?

From pictures I have seen the main horizontal dowel perch is very thick and goes through a very thick stainless steel bar. Has anyone managed to workout how to replace it with a natural perch whether its bolt-on or some other way. It looks impossible from the pictures.

Sorry again for the multiple questions and thank you in advance for any help.

 

[kme33882]

I am unfamiliar with that specific cage brand.

I will comment on the spacing though. I had a jenday conure. She could have cage 3/4” spacing. She was a big girl. My sun conure is on the smaller side for suns. He needs 1/2” spacing. When they moved in together I got them a larger cage. I went with the 1/2” spacing to be on the safe side. It took me a bit to find the right cage. If you are looking at a specific brand that will limit a lot. I ran into this issue myself. There’s always a sacrifice somewhere when cage shopping.

I don’t like pushing cages either. Larger wheels is a good idea.

 

[LaManuka60]

Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum and I live in Australia. I am in need of help for any information from members who have a Featherland stainless steel cage as my Quaker chews her powder coated cage. I will apologise in advance for so many questions but if anyone can provide any information and recommendations, I would be extremely grateful.

Any recommendations for which size is best for my quaker? I was looking at small or medium size. The small looks to small but the bar spacing is better and the medium is more room for her but the bar spacing is wider and the cage is heavier(32kilo). Could the bar spacing and frame spacing be too wide for my quaker to squeeze her head in ?

I have read that there seems to be lot of issues with the featherland castor wheels falling off and breaking and possibly the sockets etc. And I was hoping to find from members who have had this issue and how they have rectified It, hopefully permanently.

If they have replaced the castor wheels (to a more durable one) & plastic sockets. What type of castor wheels and sockets and size. Does anyone know what size the replacement castor push-in stem length & diameter are?

Did they use a single or double castor wheel?

What was the replacement castor wheel made from ie plastic, rubber, polyurethane?

I do require to move this cage daily on to 3 different floor types being carpet, tile and hybrid which I know is not ideal for a heavy stainless steel cage with wheel issues. My biggest concern is the cage collapsing or tilting from the wheel issues.

Does the cage lock in securely once the frame is erected ie with locks or latches

Does the cage come delivered coated in a plastic film. If so is it difficult to take and clean off ? I thought I read something but it might have been a different stainless-steel cage ?

From pictures I have seen the main horizontal dowel perch is very thick and goes through a very thick stainless steel bar. Has anyone managed to workout how to replace it with a natural perch whether its bolt-on or some other way. It looks impossible from the pictures.

Sorry again for the multiple questions and thank you in advance for any help.

Welcome to the forums @Indigo2 and your quaker! Please do post some pics of your quaker sometime soon, won't you? And please tell us what her name is too!

I have two of the medium-sized Featherland cages that are now about 10 years old. I would NOT get the small one for your quaker, they are WAY too small as I found when I got one for my (tiny) purple-crowned lorikeet, personally I wouldn't put anything bigger than a budgie in the smaller cage. The bar spacing on the medium sized cages is fine for my cockatiels, princess parrot and varied lorikeet so your quaker would be ok too in my opinion.

The wheels on the Featherland cages are problematic in my experience. They really don't seem to be heavy-duty enough for such a big cage, and mine kept falling out whenever I needed to lift it which was massively annoying. We have timber floors throughout our house so I can't advise you about carpeted areas, but the wheels gave me all sorts of trouble nonetheless so I ended up going to Bunnings and buying some casters from them. I packed them in with a little double-sided sticky tape to make sure they stay put, they work much better and do not fall out even when hubby and I carry them outside for cleaning.

The cage itself is a kind of concertina design that folds out and locks in place once the roof section is put in, and idk which one exactly you're looking at but mine have a domed roof. Some folks don't like the dome because they can't accommodate a play top, but it seems to give the bird more inside space and more head room which I like. I've attached a couple of seagrass mats to the top of mine which enables my birds to walk and climb across more easily, plus you can latch a few toys to the seagrass mats too which I have done.

They don't seem to be covered with any type of film or plastic as such, but I always clean any new cage to get rid of any residue that might come from the manufacturing process. A good scrub with soapy water followed by a blast with the pressure cleaner gets rid of anything that might come from the factory.

I got rid of the big dowel perches and replaced them, either with natural branches or with those bendy sisal perches that look like this....

I find these better than those cotton rope ones because I once had a budgie who got his claw caught in one and it could've been fatal had I not been there to cut him free.

Now, having said all that, when I got my princess parrot I was in need of buying her a stainless steel cage but by that time the Featherland brand had gone way up in price! However, I actually found a different brand via eBay, you can view them on the link below....

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/322964071791?itmmeta=01M2MCAJ4W76W5GDTWABBXJRJ9&hash=item4b3228a56f:g:5EMAAOSwjdFel-q9

Ignore all the birds pictured on and in it, they're just photoshopped on there or something, but this cage would also be very good for a quaker. It's a bit smaller than the Featherland but it's made from a different gauge of stainless steel and is therefore much lighter. I've had it for about 3 years and it has not developed one spot of rust so far. It's a different design that requires panels being screwed together, the bottom tray does come covered in a plastic film that needs to be removed and the wheels seem to be sturdier than the Featherland version. Honestly if I needed to buy another stainless steel cage, I'd go for the eBay one, and if you happen to live in Sydney you could probably go and see it before you commit to buying as it seems they have a showroom in Chipping Norton!