Dayang Play-Top Parrot Cage with Stand, White - 82.5 x 77.5 x 156 cm

The Dayang Play-Top Parrot Cage is a white play-top parrot cage on castors, with a top perch, stainless steel bowls, a seed catcher and a slide-out tray.

Key Features

• 82.5 cm wide and 77.5 cm deep, with a play top and perch above the cage.
• Dayang quotes 4 mm wire and 2 cm bar spacing.
• Removable seed catcher and a slide-out tray.
• Stainless steel feeding bowls and perches included.
• Castors on the base, 156 cm to the top perch.

Available in: Also in black and white at 67 x 67 x 156 cm, and in black and white at 82 x 77.4 x 164 cm.

Good To Know

• 2 cm bar spacing suits larger parrots and is too wide for budgerigars, finches and canaries.
• 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. A cage that rolls when a large parrot climbs the bars will put the bird off using that side.
• 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.
• This is a bird cage. Dayang's own copy also offers cages like this one for rabbits and hamsters, but a tall cage with a wire floor and wide bar spacing is the wrong home for either. Rabbits in particular need unbroken floor space and solid flooring, or they develop sore hocks.
• The seed catcher helps but will not stop the mess. Budget for a mat or a cage skirt if the cage stands on carpet.
• 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.