Dayang Bird Flight Cage (A25) with Roof, Blue Frame - 78 x 74.5 x 166 cm

The Dayang Bird Flight Cage (A25) is a tall flight cage on a blue powder-coated frame with a pitched yellow roof and castors, for a group of small birds.

Key Features

• Built as a flight cage, not a parrot cage - narrow bar spacing and a tall open interior for finches, budgerigars and canaries to fly in.
• 78 cm wide and 74.5 cm deep, 166 cm to the ridge of the roof.
• Pitched roof rather than a flat top.
• Castors on the frame so it can be rolled clear of a wall for cleaning.
• Full-height front doors and several perches fitted.

Good To Know

• A cage this size arrives flat-packed and heavy. Allow two people and an hour, and check every joint and fastener is tight before a bird goes in.
• Lock the castors once the cage is in position, so it does not roll when the birds move about inside it.
• Bar spacing keeps a bird safe, not cage size. A bird that can push its head between the bars can hang itself, and one that can squeeze through escapes. Check the spacing against your species: budgerigars and finches need roughly 1 cm, cockatiels around 1.5 cm, and only the larger parrots belong behind 2 cm bars.
• A flight cage is for birds that fly, not for a large parrot. A macaw or a cockatoo will take the frame apart, and the bar spacing is wrong for them.
• Whatever perches come with a cage, add more of different thicknesses and materials. A bird gripping one diameter all day gets flat, sore feet, and dowels of a single size are the usual cause.
• Clean the tray with hot water and a bird-safe cleaner. Bleach, ammonia, scented sprays, air fresheners and candles all irritate a bird's airways, which are far more sensitive than ours.
• Put the cage against a wall rather than in the middle of a room, out of direct sun and clear of an air-conditioning draught, and cover it at night. A bird exposed on all four sides never fully settles.
• Keep birds well away from the kitchen. Overheated non-stick cookware gives off fumes that kill birds within minutes, and it is one of the commonest causes of sudden death in a pet parrot in an ordinary home.
• A bird that sits fluffed on the cage floor, stops eating or goes quiet needs an avian vet the same day. Birds hide illness until they no longer can, so by the time it shows it is usually well advanced.