Suggestions for Bird-Proofing an Area?

[aussie_wings]

Kakarikis are extremely inquisitive and destructive parrots. I want ours to be able to have a nice fun environment, but without any dangers or hazards. Does anyone have any suggestions about this? Sorry for the short post. If you have any questions and need clarification on anything, let me know.

 

[HeatherG]

Be careful with cords and cables. Same with rocking chairs that can squish birds on the floor. And little spaces behind furniture that a bird can get into and not out.

 

[SailBoat]

Thanks for the concise easy to follow Thread.

We have long had Amazons with zero restrictions, allowing free-flight and walk-about life-style within our home. It is important to understand that it is an earned life-style as allowing any Parrot such a life style can be problematic.

Commonly, it starts with a Parrot that is self-entertaining with the extensive Parrot safe toys provided. Whether a flyer, a walker or both, your Parrot is recalled trained and will respond when asked. That also applies to Contact Calls as "where are you" become very important.

For a single 'Bird Room' doors become very important as they are very dangerous whether opening or closing. Being able to determine whether your Parrot is waiting for your arrival and is standing on the other side of that door is very important As stated above, cord and cables are a real no-no even for the Parrot that has never had an interest in them. One of the tools that can be used is to use the 'Baby Safe' guidelines. The only difference is that if your Parrot is a flyer, all levels of the room becomes more important from the very beginning as there is not the steps between a crawler, a walker and a climber.

 

[GaleriaGila]

I bought one of those ordinary door-liner thingies... where two-sided glue attaches a cushiony padding all around the frame. It was about 30 bucks and it REALLY MADE A DIFFERENCE! I didn't think it would, but it did, and I recommend it. Other than that I just padded and covered wall and floor surfaces as much as I could... wall hangings, rugs, low tech stuff... and it all worked together. And with a Patagonian Conure, every decibel counts. Good luck!

Edit:
I mis-read this as "sound-proofing"... gee, I wonder why!

 

[wrench13]

Anything that is wood in a parrot room is fair game for them to chew it into splinters! So wood molding on doors and windows, shelves, ceiling lights, the doors themselves, etc!! Even walls themselves may be attacked; I've seen pictures where a parrot chewed right thru the sheetrock walls and was working on the wood studs behind the wall. Gail's suggestion of covering all walls with rugs or other heavy material might not be such a bad idea - you will just have to see what he likes to chew on.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

BOXES! When I used to freerange my birds, they would get into boxes and even had one cockatiel pair raise their first chick in one. I was clueless at the time about birds and learned not to let them into boxes any more!

 

[aussie_wings]

Thanks for the concise easy to follow Thread.

We have long had Amazons with zero restrictions, allowing free-flight and walk-about life-style within our home. It is important to understand that it is an earned life-style as allowing any Parrot such a life style can be problematic.

Commonly, it starts with a Parrot that is self-entertaining with the extensive Parrot safe toys provided. Whether a flyer, a walker or both, your Parrot is recalled trained and will respond when asked. That also applies to Contact Calls as "where are you" become very important.

For a single 'Bird Room' doors become very important as they are very dangerous whether opening or closing. Being able to determine whether your Parrot is waiting for your arrival and is standing on the other side of that door is very important As stated above, cord and cables are a real no-no even for the Parrot that has never had an interest in them. One of the tools that can be used is to use the 'Baby Safe' guidelines. The only difference is that if your Parrot is a flyer, all levels of the room becomes more important from the very beginning as there is not the steps between a crawler, a walker and a climber.

No problem, lol, my brain is so fried right now.

I think you've definitely made a very good point here. It can be very problematic if they are not obedient. Trying to stop the biting issue we're having with him. Otherwise, he's good. He calls to us and we call + respond to each other. He lets us know when he's ready to hang out with us. I definitely want to get him more hand-tamed with us first.

He really chews on just about everything he can get his beak on, and unfortunately it's been pretty unpredictable just what kind of stuff he's going to destroy next.