What's the best temperature?

[JDS5607]

It's beginning to get rather chilly here in good old Baltimore...

 

We live in an apartment complex, and our neighbors have their heat on already--Which heats our apartment enough to the point where we can lounge around in sweatpants and t shirts and be comfortable. It stays about 70-72 degrees in here during the day, and during the night and early morning, it gets to about 67-70. We hate to have the heat on unless it gets SUPER COLD.

 

I guess my question is, will Sully need higher temperatures than this to be comfortable? I mean, I know usually the warmer the better, but with prices here, we cannot afford to run the heat to keep it at 75-77 degrees, nor is it comfortable for us. He IS by a big glass door- but it's very well insulated, and there is NO draft. At night we pull the blinds so it keeps the chill out... but like I said, it still gets down to about 67 degrees. We usually keep the apartment at 70-72 degrees all winter, and our little birds don't have a problem.

 

Any ideas?

[danmcq]

The temperature ranges for winter sound fine.

[Dave007]

""""I mean, I know usually the warmer the better, """""""""

Wrong, 75-77 degrees is too hot. 70-72 degrees is much better. Actually, they can put up with colder temperatures than 70 degrees.

[Ray P]

We keep our house at 66 F and we have a CAG a BFA and 2 cockatiels and they do fine. One of our tiels is almost 21 years old and we have always kept our house at that temp.

[Kaleah]

I'm glad this question was asked because I was wondering the same thing. I usually keep my house between 68-70 depending on how cold it gets. We can have wind chills up to around -20 or more so I may bump the thermostat up to 72. My cockatiels have always done fine with that and I figured Kaleah would too, but I was still curious.

[Luvparrots]

I keep my home around 70-71° in the day in the winter. My birds are all fine and at night my home is around 68-69°. My fids have never complained.

[KimKim]

I have the thermostat set between 69-72 depending on how cold it gets. But we have a 3 story townhouse and my grey's cage is on first floor. It is at least 2-3 degrees cooler down there so I worry a little. I use fleece fabric to cover his cage and he has the thermo perch which he does not use of course. So I am going to get one of the avitec heat panels from one of the other posts, that way I can turn down the heat. It gets warm on the third floor and my husband prefers to be cold, he is weird...

[JDS5607]

Thanks, everyone!

 

Three of the five birds are in the living room/dining nook with us, so it's easy to keep an eye on the temperature, and the conures have a mini heater in their room that gets turned on for a minute or two just to get the chill out.

As the winter gets colder we will be turning the heat on, but I haaaaate using the heat, I'd rather cuddle in a blanket with Sully