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I have two African Greys with breakfast beards in my food bowl

I have an outdoor aviary now and the biggest problem that I have is that the spiders love it and keep building webs everywhere! 🙄 I also have birds landing on it and pooping everywhere as I haven't got the top covered. So before Alfie goes out I spray it down with the hose and then scrub it down with some f10 bird safe disinfectant, diluted at the highest level to kill as much bacteria as possible, then rinse it off with the hose. I'm mostly worried about possible diseases carried by the local birds/wildlife being passed on to Alfie. The hose clears most of the cobwebs... the scrubbing brush gets the rest! It might be over the top but I'd rather make sure I've done everything I can to prevent it.

After 3 days here, our little guy has emerged from his cage and stepped up for my son!!! He always knows how to communicate with birds and animals. My heart is full!

I talked to a pro bird-keeper and he suggests limiting the time out there or just waiting until the Doves fledge to really go for it, then take measures to make sure no nesting can continue there. They fledge in a couple weeks or so I'll play things real safe and take care. Thanks for all the responses. Cheers guys!

I believe he does. It's difficult for him to trust us yet, but I'm thrilled at how quickly he's becoming acclimated to everything. Five days!

Ah, yes, the dreaded spider webs. It's amazing how they can create webbing over every single corner imaginable. Broom them all down on one day? They're all back again the following day.

too true!!

He's doing so well. Thank you for the photo updates. Maybe he knows he has hit the jackpot so is making the most of it!

He was. Crash landed into a pile of my son's laundry, making it the one time I was appreciative of the messiness in his room!

Yeah, I am not planning full time outdoors either so I think it is a reasonable risk to take to give them outside time. I'll take some precautions though.

To stir up some trouble and thought...lol...this is my opinion and reasons for it. NO ONE has to agree with this.... I had planned to offer a number of post to this thread, but I'll finish with this one... What ever we feed our fids outside the norm we must do so with Moderation in mind...This leads us to Accumulation, THIS is the Killer... OUR fids cannot remove certain mineral and nutrition's from their system, Salt for example, and other overdoses...Yes we overdose our fids. Using a previous post, sugar or supplier of sugar was mentioned nine times in daily foods! The problem lies in the fact we don't take into the amount of sugar for example or salt that is in the both good foods and bad foods we feed our fids.. It isn't the occasional chip or white potato etc we feed them, but the "Accumulation" of every thing we feed them!!! The same thing goe's for Fats (fatty Acids) We must reduce Saturated fats to a minimum... In summary, check out how much sugar is in peas, corn, potatoes, bread etc...How about Saturated fats, Pellets, sunflower seeds, chips, etc. The largest killer of our fids is: Advertising!!! Complete, contains, Vet recommended, Everything your bird need!!!!! What our FIDS really need is for us, their caretaker to learn how to read and research.....Thank you Jayd