| Title: | Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN! |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 10 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I have a yellow nape amazon (Reggie), we have had Reggie now for
3yrs. My husband has allwasy kept Reggie very warm. I think to
warm. Wont your birds adapt a bit? If you lower the temp just a
degree or so at a time? He keeps the room (Reggie has his own room)
at 72 degrees and he keeps the door shut so he is relly hot in there.
I want to get the the room down to about 65 or even 68..but not 72
but electric bill is horrible..and all for the bird..
Wont Reggie get sicker if he is used to 72 and all of a suddne we
bring him down stairs w/ us and is only 65 down there..??
Any information would be great..so I can print it out and show it
to my husband!!
Louisa
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| 318.1 | winter/summer in same house | SVCRUS::KROLL | Fri Feb 16 1990 18:32 | 11 | |
our house has only one room at 75 degrees. the bird/living area
runs about 68 night to 80 on a sunny day. upstairs run 62 to 65.
we have two pionus that fly around down stairs and come up stairs
every day for a bath and they are doing very well.
suggest a little at time change like a week of 71 then a week of
70 ect... if he stays too puffed up and does not move then up the
heat.
good luck.
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| 318.2 | 65 and alive (and happy of course) | BOHR::CASSONE | Dom Cassone MRO4-3/C17 DTN 297-3038 | Mon Feb 19 1990 13:27 | 14 |
My house never gets much above 67 and is often in the lower 60's (depending on which type of heat we are using). My Scarlet Macaw and my son's cockatiel are quite healthy and happy. I even give the macaw baths on sunny days and he has a fine time drying and preening in the sun afterwards As long as you are reasonable I think that you will find most healthy pet birds quite adaptable. If you are comfortable (without 5 sweaters and 3 coats) the birds will do OK. It is constant drafts that the birds cant move away from that is more serious than a few degrees lower temp. I also think that the last reply makes a good point. Don't lower the temp. 10 degrees all at once. Do a few degrees at a time and observe the birds. It should take little time to have them comfortable in the same temps that you live in. Dom | |||||
| 318.3 | Cooler is Probably Better | MEMV01::COMPTON | Mon Feb 19 1990 16:38 | 14 | |
When we have had a bird who was sick, he went into the "hospital room"
(where the terminal is at home--a very small area), then we can heat
up that area for the birds benefit, but most of what I have read or
heard, and observed, is that the birds do better in slightly lower
temperatures (65-68?). Here in Massachusetts, I worry about power
failures and such, where the main bird room's temperature could drop
during the day, so keeping the main room at this lower temperature is
also some minor insurance that the birds do not "need" the higher heat,
so could survive a few hours of a power failure. The only other time
I had an area at a higher temperature was in the fall when two budgies
were raising a clutch (also upped the humidity). Previous replies
about no sudden changes are the key. Also, food won't spoil as fast!
Linda
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| 318.4 | thanks | FLOWER::PIERCE | Tue Feb 20 1990 09:40 | 6 | |
Thank you all, I think I have my husband convienced to lower the temp
just a tad...and we will keep an eye on him to see if he puffs up..
Thanks for all of your help! :-)
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