What Room Are Your Birds In?

[Puck]

I searched the forum trying to find a thread on this and there were just too many results for things like "bird room," so I'm sorry if this has been answered a million times, but I was just wondering... What room are your birds in? Specifically their daytime cages.

Do you have a room in your house designated for your birds? Do you keep them in a family room? I was just wondering because I live alone and there are really only two rooms of my three bedroom house that I am ever in for more than a minute: My bedroom and my living room. Right now Sammy's cage is in my living room, and I am planning to put the RB2's cage in here, too, though it will mean a LOT of cleaning of the living room every day! I have considered making one of the bedrooms the designated "bird room," but I am afraid that if I do that they won't feel like part of the family since I am usually chilling in the living room (you know, where the TV is...). I can't let my birds out on stands in the living room all day long because I also have dogs, and they need to be able to be in the house sometimes! Just wondering what other people do, considering that my main living room decor is about to become bird cages! (Goodbye curio cabinet, hello seeds and dust!)

 

[Allee]

I have three cages in my family room with the TV. The little guys like their cartoons. A cockatiel, two budgies and a male quaker. My quaker and cockatiel adore each other. The adjoining room was once a formal dining room, but who needs that? On very special occasions we roll the cages into the family room and borrow the dining room. If humans want to eat they have the breakfast nook. My cockatoo and female quaker share the dining room, it has a lot of natural light and they can see the TV in the family room. They are out most of the day in those two rooms while the dogs are in the other part of the house.

Hopefully our next home will have a huge sunroom for the birds. Maybe they will let us live there too.

 

[Lullx]

I keep all 6 of my birds in my living room, as it's where the TV is haha.
I rearrange the furniture and cages often to figure out the best possible setup, but also to keep them used to change.

When I bring my CAG home, he'll be temporarily put in my front room, for quarantine, then I plan to use that room as his training room. The roost cage will go in there once the little one is ready to be around the other birds. I already have a spot picked out for little one's big cage in the living room when everyone is ready.

 

[henpecked]

Every room except the bathroom. Lol. And i used to use that for quarantine.

 

[veimar]

I have three in the dining room (two cages) and three in the bedroom (one cage). We put the cages like that for exact same reason because these are the only rooms we spend time in.

 

[Frumpydumple]

Mildred is in my parents bedroom, Norman is in the dining room and Trevor is in the hallway but sometimes I bring his cage in my bedroom.

 

[Pinkbirdy]

I have a huge double living room where they are

 

[Kiwibird]

Kiwi is in the living room, positioned right in front of the huge window, blocking the view:20:

 

[JerseyWendy]

We moved our living room into our family room, just so that all the birds could take part of all the 'action' all day long. So now all the cages are in the old dining room, which in actuality is just an extension of our living room. (Gees, am I making any sense??)

Anyway, from their location they can watch TV, and see us in the kitchen, too. (Fairly open floor plan).

THEN I moved our dinette set into the (new) dining room to make room for the 2 Java trees. :54:

Just a tad bit nuts.....But the fids couldn't be happier, and that's what counts.

 

[Dopey]

I'm glad you asked this question because I like to see the answers and I gather from one response...it changes. Like I change mine. I honestly do not like seeing all of the cages in my family room but that is pretty much where I live. I would love to make the formal dining room my bird cage room and then set up a play area in the family room for the birds to hang out.

I let my dog back in the house in the evenings after the birds have gone to bed and are covered up. I play with her for an hour or two and then I go to bed. Otherwise the dog bothers the birds...even in the cages.

 

[thekarens]

Living room where we spend all our time. We don't have night time cages and we don't cover our birds.

 

[Dopey]

then how do you watch tv after they go to bed? Just curious.

 

[Christinenc2000]

we live in a Beach style home so the Living Room , Dining Room and kitchen are all a big open space. We don't use the dining room so that is where the Cage is. His play stand is on wheels so that gets moved around

Lights are dimmed at night when watching TV and so far its not bothered BB he tucks his head and sleeps when ready. Trust me if we make any LOUD sound he lets us know he does not appreciate it. <-- that has only happened once. The TV and normal talking does not bother him

 

[4dugnlee]

Peanut is in the living room and Sassy and Cisco are in the dining room. Their cages are in sight of the living room so everyone is involved in the action/attention. I would really like to move all the cages to the living room and am thinking about getting rid of our one couch to be able to do this. I could make one of the extra bedrooms a bird room but I like them being out with us. I don't have separate night/day cages.

 

[Birdman666]

My downstairs has two living rooms. One is a dedicated bird room. The other is for people...

 

[labell]

The eclectus have their own room, always have though they get brought out onto other java stands I have throughout the house. Brady YNA is in the living room until 9pm when her cage gets wheeled into one of the bedrooms so she can sleep. I am a night owl and sometimes I am up until 2am painting in my studio. I am up at between 8-8:30am so that's when everyone gets their breakfast and after they have eaten they all come out to play and hang out. I do try to switch up the routine occasionally so no one gets too fixated on a set time frame. While I think a schedule is important for birds I also believe too rigid of one can cause problems.

 

[thekarens]

then how do you watch tv after they go to bed? Just curious.

Everyone goes to bed at 9. Occasionally we'll stay up later on the weekend (but not often) and the birds just stay up with us and sleep in with us.

 

[Turk]

My bird's cage is in the family room. He seems to get upset if he not where the action is. He likes the TV (laughs along with the laugh tracks), watching the dogs, cats and kids run around and just being part everything.

 

[Taw5106]

Our birds are in the family room, which is the main room where everything happens. It's my preference because that's where everything happens so they are part of the action.

 

[Kyoto]

We currently keep Kyoto in our bedroom.

We have a 35 pound cat and a normal cat, and they hang out in the living room so I am very worried to bring the cage down there for when we aren't home. We are hoping to do some slow introduction and eventually bring the cage down in the living room, but it's going to depend on the cats.

If that doesn't work out, we are working on making a rec-room out of our second bedroom and trying to move the "action" of our house there. I'll be back in school in a while and that's where I'll be doing my schoolwork anyways, so it makes sense for us if the living room doesn't work out.

Fingers crossed…

as for bed time, since she's in our room we put her to bed and cover her about the same time we go to bed. We've been making a habit of going to bed early (no later than 9:00) and covering her as well as getting up around 7:30 every day. It;s hard on weekends because I work earlier (8am instead of 9 or 10), but doing our best to make it work.

Right now she gets some out of cage time in the morning before we shower and while I feed/water her, then I go to work (so does my hubby usually). As soon as I get home (usually around 4) I go up and give her about 2 hours out of her cage, feed her fresh veggies and work on recall training. When she gets thirsty/wants to bathe, she is asking to go back in her cage, and she will bathe and then take a nap in her snuggle tent (around 6pm). I take this opportunity to make dinner and spend some time with the cats (they are very needy for cats).

We have dinner, watch some tv, and relax for a few hours (go out with friends if we have plans) and then around 9, go upstairs and let her out, take away the veggies, and get her and us snuggled into bed around 9:30.

It works for now… I will be so happy if we can start to keep her in the living room once I have confidence that the cats won't bother her.