Conference 7.286::pet_birds

418.0. "dimensions for quarantine quarters?" by MEIS::TILLSON (Sugar Magnolia) Fri Sep 21 1990 14:30

    
    Anyone have any thoughts on the minimum size appropriate for quarantine
    cages for medium parrots?  (Senegals, in this case, although all the
    parrots I anticipate acquiring for breeding purposes would be about the
    same size - Pionus, Senegals, Timneh greys - I can't see getting
    anything bigger.)
    
    I have two of these guys coming that I plan to set up for breeding. 
    Since the hen and cock are coming from different sources, I need to
    quarantine them seperately for thirty days before turning them into
    thee larger breeding cage I've made.  (I'll post more on this under
    home-built caging topic when I have a chance.)  I'm going to be putting
    them on opposite ends of my bedroom (the only room left now that
    doesn't already have birds in it either permanently or for
    quarantine!).   I'd like to put together something low-cost and easy to
    store, probably made out some of the 1"x2" 14-gauge wire mesh that I
    have left from my breeding cage project.  I'll need two of them, cost is
    an issue, and space is at a premium.
    
    Do you think that something, say 24"x24"x12 would be too confining for
    a limited (30-day) stay?  I certainly don't want to risk the little
    couple's health or well-being.  And they *are* wild and untamed breeder
    birds, so they won't be spending alot of time outside the cage like my
    pet birds do.  (I worry less about adequate caging space for a bird
    that spends most of it's time on the sofa watching the tube :-)
    
    
    					/Rita