need help with lorrikeet please respond

[jeremy95]

My lorrikeet sleeps upside down at the top of the cage. I can not find anything on how they sleep. should i get a bird bed or a perch higher up i dont know if it hurts him the bars are 1cm apart this is my first lorikeet. i love this little guy so playfull and always can not wait to get out of his cage. His cage is 65 or 70cm long 40 wide and 50 high should i get a bigger cage for him.

 

[MikeyTN]

Of course the bigger the cage the better. He's sleeping that way cause he feels secure in that area to sleep. He's actually fine sleeping like that. I have one that use one foot hanging on the side of the cage to sleep. Can you post pics of him and the cage?

 

[Birdman666]

I've seen some pretty strange parrot sleeping habits in my day. There was a neurotic TAG down at the rescue, that used to empty out his food bowl, and sleep with his head stuck upside down in his food dish...

I had a male/female conure, where he would position himself underneath her on a perch, and then she would climb the bars on the roof of her cage UPSIDE DOWN and LIE DOWN ON HIS BACK with her feet in the air. They then wrapped their little necks around one another.

One of the oddest things you will ever see, but that's how they slept every night.

So this comes under the heading of "Define Normal."

Well, it's normal for him...

 

[gracebowen]

Jet my tiel started sleeping in his food dish food and all so I moved hos food and put an empty food dish in his corner

 

[jeremy95]

Ok thanks for your comments

 

[MikeyTN]

I see you've got a rainbow lorikeet. A much bigger cage would be good as they like to go around everywhere in their cage to play. I would suggest plastic toys cause you'll be scrubbing them often. Did you get some nectar to feed him? What are you feeding him right now?

 

[jeremy95]

Yep i got him the right food i have the a wooden rope toy is that ok for him or i should only give him plastic ones and he out alot of his cage .also he is a collared lorikeets but not much different except for there back and eyes

 

[jeremy95]

Here is the toy

 

[Grraarrgghh]

Bigger cage + more toys = happier parrot. All parrots (and lorikeets in particular) need a lot of mental stimulation. One toy may not be enough to satisfy his mind.

Scratch that, it definitely won't.

Combined between his cage and his playstand, Albert has ~10 toys to play with, and I tend to rotate out 2-3 of them every week or two. This is along with 5-6 foot toys.

 

[Puck]

Plus there is an upside to the bigger cages: MUCH easier maintenance! My Quaker Sammy came with a cage similar to the one you use, with the plastic bottom attached to bars. I use it as his sleeping cage and travel cage when we go to the lake, but it is a PAIN to clean. I bought him [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Prevue-Products-Wrought-F040-31-Inch/dp/B00176F5L0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427560202&sr=8-1&keywords=prevue+flight+cage"]a slightly smaller version of this cage[/ame] (just not as tall) and it is SO much easier to clean. It is metal all around so poop can't get stuck like it does with those small cages that have plastic at the bottom. Also bigger cage to bird ratio=cleaner looking environment. After one night Sammy has pooped his sleeping cage up like crazy and it looks NASTY, but his day cage is SO big compared to him that it looks really clean even when it's dirty because there's just more area to NOT poop in. So beyond it being better for the bird, it has some REALLY great ups for YOU, and like my Quaker, your lorikeet could get away with a cage meant for birds with small beaks (like finches and budgies), which makes them a lot cheaper than the parrot cages you need for birds with giant beaks, whatever their body size is.

 

[Puck]

In fact, it's hard to tell from the angle, but I think that IS the cage I use for a sleep cage.

 

[MikeyTN]

Here is the toy

I would suggest not to use that toy with a Lory, Malachai had his dismantled in no time and the string wrapped around his feet pretty good and I had to catch him to cut off the strings. He hold grudges.....He's one of the birds that we don't make him mad about anything cause he gets really angry and attacks. He seems to read my body language and my mind pretty good, if I were to try to get him out of his cage to do cage scrubbing, nail trim, or whatever. He ALWAYS know. If I was there just to play with him, he's calmer and sweeter. He's one that's hard to do anything with if not just to play.

 

[Allee]

Plus there is an upside to the bigger cages: MUCH easier maintenance! My Quaker Sammy came with a cage similar to the one you use, with the plastic bottom attached to bars. I use it as his sleeping cage and travel cage when we go to the lake, but it is a PAIN to clean. I bought him a slightly smaller version of this cage (just not as tall) and it is SO much easier to clean. It is metal all around so poop can't get stuck like it does with those small cages that have plastic at the bottom. Also bigger cage to bird ratio=cleaner looking environment. After one night Sammy has pooped his sleeping cage up like crazy and it looks NASTY, but his day cage is SO big compared to him that it looks really clean even when it's dirty because there's just more area to NOT poop in. So beyond it being better for the bird, it has some REALLY great ups for YOU, and like my Quaker, your lorikeet could get away with a cage meant for birds with small beaks (like finches and budgies), which makes them a lot cheaper than the parrot cages you need for birds with giant beaks, whatever their body size is.

Michelle, I respectfully disagree with your cage recommendation. A flight cage with small grade wire intended for finches or budgies may be fine for lorikeets, I really don't know as I don't have personal experience with lorikeets. I do know lorikeets and quakers are vastly different species and while YOUR quaker may do fine in a flight cage with smaller gauge bars, not ALL quakers are. Some quakers are aggressive chewers and will chew the paint right off the bars and possibly ingest it, according to the individual bird.

 

[RavensGryf]

I have to agree with Allee on the warning post above. Many people use "flight cages" for parrots. They are actually called flight cages to house birds SMALL enough to fly in there, like finches and budgies .

Some parrots like Puck might be fine, but I don't like to tell the public in general that flight cages are fine for parrots (depending on the individual). I can tell you from personal experience that some parrots can and DO chew and bite cage bars. My Ruppell's parrot (Senegal size) easily chipped the powder coating right off heavy gauge bars, and put enough force on to easily bend and break a flight cage IF he were in one .

 

[MikeyTN]

That cage Puck posted is fine for a Lory! Malachai's cage is almost the exact same cage. They're not destructive with their cage like other parrots.

 

[jeremy95]

Hi sorry for the late response i will be getting a bigger cage for him very soon and i have got more toys for him the cage is a meter tall and an 60 all around has a food catcher but another is 80 high 80 wide would that be better because he has more room move around

 

[Pinkbirdy]

I a agree , that is actually good size for them . They love the space [not destructive with their cages]. The only thing you would have to worry about .Is that they might learn how to unlock it . Very smart birds they are . Out of 22 birds ,my Lorries are the ones that have to have extra locks on their cages.

 

[jeremy95]

Yea i put like 3 pegs because there is no chance of them coming off unless someone takes them off but aswell he is kept inside so if he gets out all he dose is go to his toys he knows where they are lol

 

[MikeyTN]

I a agree , that is actually good size for them . They love the space [not destructive with their cages]. The only thing you would have to worry about .Is that they might learn how to unlock it . Very smart birds they are . Out of 22 birds ,my Lorries are the ones that have to have extra locks on their cages.

They do learn how to unlock very easily!!!! One of the birds you need to keep a padlock on it....lol