How much sleep for green cheek winter vs summer

[ptcbass]

My green cheek gets about 10 hours sleep a night. I wonder if she needs more like 12. What does everyone else do? Do you let them stay up later in the Summer than the Winter?

 

[Terry57]

My birds get 12 hours of sleep year round

 

[FA22raptero]

yeah we try and get mango his good ol' 12 year round. Lights out (cover on) sometime between 7:30 and 9:00 and then cover off by about 8:00 usually, sometimes a little later sometimes earlier. I just assume he's pretty well sleeping the entire time.

 

[lquan]

My Lily goes to her sleeping cage in the loft between 7:45pm and 8:00pm year round. Our loft is upstairs far away from the family room where all of us always hang around. Lily's sleeping cage has no doors, only a white sheet in the front where the door is. The other sides of the cage have cardboards all around. She gets some ambient light from the street lamp across the street through the white sheet to help her maneuver in the dark. There is no other light in the loft. She wakes up on her own promptly at 7:00am, comes out of the cage on her own through the sheet, does her big morning poop on the newspaper to the right of the cage, and flies into the bathroom with opened window, and wait for me to wake up at 7:30am. She enjoys the fresh morning air while being half awake and half sleep on my towel and listening to outdoor birds singing in the vine tree just outside the window. Sometimes she sings with the other birds. As soon as she hears my first couple of footsteps on the wooden floor, she flies out of the bathroom and lands on my shoulder. Lily is very use to this routine.

 

[Kalidasa]

I keep mine on a solar schedule...up and dawn and sleep at dusk. I've found it's much easier to convert a sleep schedule in small doses. A few minutes at a time every night until you got them on a healthy schedule. Then keep adjusting as days get longer. It helps tremendously with hormonal high-strung birds. Although, if I have to be gone for a bigger chunk of the day than normal they get to stay up longer. That happens once in a few weeks with no harm done. But if they stay up longer for more than two nights in a row, the conure turns into hormonal monster-bird.

 

[ptcbass]

I have her a sleep cage in a closet so that noise from the family doesn't bother her. I put a night light in there so that she isn't completely in the dark. She has been getting about 10 hours but she has been extra fussy and squawking for our attention a lot. I wondered if a little more sleep would help balance out her mood. I think I will start putting her to bed a few minutes earlier each night till she is closer to 12. In nature I think birds go to bed at dark but if I were to do that she would get a lot more sleep - something like 14+ hours. My other little birds I put to bed with the darkness but with my green cheek, she wants up stay up late and watch TV with me Everyone's feedback helps! Thanks so much!!