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GlassOnion
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-19
Age : 32
Location : Vancouver
My Birds : Cockatiel, Budgerigar
Posts : 1209
 |  Subject: How much I hate wooden dowels as perches  Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:27 pm | |
| I can't stand them, they are too smooth for birdie feet. I don't even like holding it in my hand because it's slippery; I can why these stress bird feet and cause cramping and joint problems in the long run..
Right now, I am not using a single dowel, I bought mostly natural perches with bark. I think it's okay to have one or two in the cage but it irks me tremendously when I see cages with mostly or completely dowels. | |
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zazanomore
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 31
Location : Thunder Bay, Ontario
My Birds : Einstein - Cockatiel [3]
Charlie Bird - Cockatiel [15]
Clyde - Budgie [4]
Bonnie - Budgie [4]
Madoc - Budgie [1]
Posts : 1474
| | Subject: Re: How much I hate wooden dowels as perches Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:58 pm | |
| I chopped them up and my guys used them as chew toys  | |
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henpecked
Hyacinth Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 67
Location : NC/Fla
My Birds : Jake hen YN (his)
Stacy hen YN (hers)
Kia male Panama
Kong hen Panama
Nitro male YN
Micky male Red Lored
Binkie hen YN
Many other Amazons
Posts : 1372
| | Subject: Re: How much I hate wooden dowels as perches Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:32 pm | |
| Hehehe, the zons shred them to tooth picks in about an hour and the flock of teils can make a 4 foot long one disappear in a couple of days. | |
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moa
Sun Conure
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 30
My Birds : Rainbow and the unnamed gcc
Posts : 349
| | Subject: Re: How much I hate wooden dowels as perches Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:35 pm | |
| - zazanomore wrote:
- I chopped them up and my guys used them as chew toys
 good idea! I have one dowel perch I use from time to time that I drilled holes and indentations in. I hide seeds in the hole for rainbow to get so that sometimes she has to chew the dowel up in that spot to get to the food. the upside to dowels is that they're easy to customise, I have some more ideas I need to play around with... | |
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evil chicken
Umbrella Cockatoo
Join date : 2011-05-18
Age : 28
Location : Southern California
My Birds : Sam -cinnamon pied cockatiel
Drake "Ducky" Laurence Lars -sun conure
Eric -whiteface pied cockatiel
Chicky Baby -red bantee hen -my avatar. Not really a parrot, but y'know, gotta include her anyway
Posts : 745
| | Subject: Re: How much I hate wooden dowels as perches Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:48 pm | |
| - moa wrote:
- I have one dowel perch I use from time to time that I drilled holes and indentations in. I hide seeds in the hole for rainbow to get so that sometimes she has to chew the dowel up in that spot to get to the food. the upside to dowels is that they're easy to customise, I have some more ideas I need to play around with...
That's a good idea! Make the perches interesting for the birds. | |
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RogerP
Scarlet Macaw
Join date : 2011-05-19
Age : 57
Location : Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
My Birds : ~Merlin - Maroon Bellied Conure
(Hatchdate May 15, 2010)
~Arthur - Red Bellied Parrot
(Hatchdate January 7, 2009, rescued October 7, 2011)
Posts : 813
| | Subject: Re: How much I hate wooden dowels as perches Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:57 am | |
| I haven't used a wooden dowel for any of my birds ever, I can't stand them. I have to stop myself from sending e-mails to ads on Kijiji whenever I see someone selling their birds or cages and they are full of dowels. | |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: How much I hate wooden dowels as perches Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:17 am | |
| Each of my cages has one in there. I hang toys and wrap stuff around them for the fids to destroy. |
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