Hoping I did right...

[Trinkapuppy]

Eshe is new to the home. Only arrived yesterday.

Tonight, I noticed she was trying to fall asleep in her cage, which is in the family room. I am a HUGE believer in sleep cages. I think they mimic their wild patterns of having one area to roost, and exploring elsewhere throughout the day, and I think they allow them a MUCH healthier sleep, if you don't have a parrot room. Since our birds stay with us in the main area (poor Jynx had to move into the dining room for a few weeks while Eshe quarantines!--but he can still see us from there. Not a perfect quarantine, but we're as careful as we can be. Normally I do iso in another room, but I didn't want to adjust Eshe twice, as greys are somewhat more sensitive)

Anyway! Blah blah blah.

Tonight, I noticed that she was trying to fall asleep, and we had a TV on, and it kept waking her. I opened her door, and she promptly climbed out. She stepped up promptly--a first. And when I took her into my bedroom where I keep the carriers (fire? Grab carriers on the way out of the bedroom and grab birds and shove them in on the way out! paranoid? maybe!) and showed her. She stepped in, and seemed to go straight to sleep.....

I closed the door and....well, then I left her. I'm sincerely just hoping that this isn't going to freak her out, but I've snuck in quietly twice since, and she still seems to be sleeping.....

This isn't going to destroy a trust bond, I hope. I normally don't introduce them to sleeping cages so very suddenly.

I guess we'll see her reaction in the morning, but so far....*fingers crossed*

So far I feel like I haven't ruined anything.

This was just a small plastic dog crate with a towel on the bottom. Last night, I heard her fall off her perch once, so I'm thinking maybe this will help? Anyway, I have a more appropriate sleeping cage/carrier coming in from bird.com in the next day or ten. Should I keep putting her to bed in the plastic carrier in the meantime?....

[Greywings]

Greys can be klutzy birds, the stronger she gets and a good variety of perch sizes will allow her to improve her grip strength. I know about those sharp toenails-Pookie the CAG keeps hers trimmed to a fine needle point, as soon as I file them down she starts her work to resharpen. It sounds like her sleep cage experience was a positive one.

[judygram]

Should I keep putting her to bed in the plastic carrier in the meantime?....

If it works then stay with it, if you are lucky enough to have a room where they can spend the night undisturbed then go for it for they do need their sleep and it sounds like her first experience was a good one so no harm done.

[Trinkapuppy]

Yeap, seems to have gone well enough last night. She woke at 6am and started chewing on the plastic of the carrier, so her metal sleep cage can't get here soon enough! She did step up right out of the carrier this morning, after putting her head down for some nice scritches, though. I put her out into her cage, and she was silent until we all got up an hour later. At which point she began talking up a storm! I swear she's already calling Kaiya (chihuahua) by name.....

 

I did not find a pile of feathers pulled out due to stress all over the bottom of the carrier.

[Greywings]

Good news, she should have slept since it was dark and she didn't sound cranky so all is well.

[JDS5607]

Absolutely adorable story I love how they are so sweet at night time

 

Anyway, Might I suggest a cuddle hut? Sully didn't take well to it because he wanted to sleep on a towel on the bottom of his cage, but Maybe your grey might? It will also give her some more stability (you can put a perch right through it) so she may not fall off.

We've wanted to get Sully a sleep cage, but have no room for it. We're moving next year to a home... think at almost two years old he will adapt to having a play cage and a sleep cage?

 

Also- when your sleep cage comes in, can you post a picture? I'd like to see how big to get one for Sully