Starlight wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:51:06 GMT, Axl  wrote:
>
>
>>I have 2 parakeets, both are new, one 2 weeks newer than the other. This
>>newer one has started going around biting on the bars of the cage. This
>>bugs me for 2 reasons. One, is this a sign she's unhappy and wants out?
>
>
> Are you sure she's not just using her beak to climb?    Budgies are
> great at that.   Mine climb all over their cage; if they're goofing
> around and fall to the bottom, they often use their beak to climb up
> the bars, rather than using the ladder.
> Very bad idea if she can get her head through the bars!!
>
> Does she have toys to play with?   Are there enough perches so she can
> hop around and have some variety and change in scenery?   Have a
> cuttlebone?   Is she able to bathe if she wants to?    Have a radio
> playing for part of the day?  Is it drafty?
>
> Some people oppose mirrors for their birds, but mine both like those
> round 2-sided mirrors that you can hang over a perch.   They talk to
> it, bop it, play with the bell at the bottom, push it back and forth
> between each other.
>
> She sounds bored.
> Becky

Yeah she's not climbing...she'll sit in the same spot and gnaw at the
same bar. They have a LOT of toys in there. Not to the point of being
overcrowded, but enough. There are 3 perches, one of which is one of
those natural branch ones. The others are sand/calcium perches. I have a
cuddle bone AND one of those vitmamin/cuddle bone things. They have a
bath as well....which they never go in.

One of the toys is a 2 sided mirror that spins.

So hell if I know. lol



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