Selecting a cage

[Doug]

I will be getting a TAG, so I am considering the following playtop cages:

 

• Prevue (from Amazon) (cage dimensions: 36" W x 24" D x 36" H)
   
  
• King's Cages (cage dimensions: 34" W x 26" D x 41" H)
  

Any comments?

 

Both are 3/4" spacing, which seems to be typically recommended for TAGs.

 

From those that own these particular models, any issues with latches, casters, hinges, etc.?

 

Is one design better than the other?

 

Is one better quality?

 

Any other options for a similar-sized cage for roughly the same price ($400 - deliverd)?

 

Other considerations?

[judygram]

Both of those cages would be fine, you wouldn't want to go any more than 3/4 inch spacing with a Tag and those playtops are great.

[Doug]

Does anyone own either of these cages?

 

If so, what are the pluses & minuses of the cage?

[Greywings]

Just a heads up from some one whose bird has suffered due to guaranteed safe powder coat on a new cage.

I have been working with the owner of the Hyacinth for the past 3 weeks... The bird is a bar chewer and just prior to his illness - he chewed more aggressively on the bars. I have been sharing heavy metal poisoning information with the owner to help get this bird over the crisis. Unfortunately the vet was treating for infection and not heavy metals. All the symptoms clustered around heavy metal poisoning and not infection. When presented with all the Hyacinth's symptoms - the vet agreed that heavy metals are the cause. Specialists have been called into the mix to get this bird on the mend. The Hyacinth was near death and he is not out of the woods yet. So - this has been intense and highly emotional.

 

A word to the wise --- if you have a powder coated painted cage and it is not Stainless Steel -- then get it tested. It does not make any difference if you have a China made cage, European made cage or any made cage… if it is painted then get it tested. Your bird’s life is at stake.

 

End of addendum...

 

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Enough of the background information... Here is what you must do:

 

Send paint scrapings off to the lab that I list here. DO NOT send anything other that paint scrapings. DO NOT send a part (metal bar or such). ONLY follow the Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (LADDL) directions layed out here.

 

In your letter to the lab - tell them that the samples are from a bird cage and you want the DIGESTION method performed.

[Dave007]

Just a heads up from some one whose bird has suffered due to guaranteed safe powder coat on a new cage.

 

I have been working with the owner of the Hyacinth for the past 3 weeks... The bird is a bar chewer and just prior to his illness - he chewed more aggressively on the bars. I have been sharing heavy metal poisoning information with the owner to help get this bird over the crisis. Unfortunately the vet was treating for infection and not heavy metals. All the symptoms clustered around heavy metal poisoning and not infection. When presented with all the Hyacinth's symptoms - the vet agreed that heavy metals are the cause. Specialists have been called into the mix to get this bird on the mend. The Hyacinth was near death and he is not out of the woods yet. So - this has been intense and highly emotional.

 

A word to the wise --- if you have a powder coated painted cage and it is not Stainless Steel -- then get it tested. It does not make any difference if you have a China made cage, European made cage or any made cage… if it is painted then get it tested. Your bird’s life is at stake.

 

End of addendum...

 

---------------------------------------------------------

 

Enough of the background information... Here is what you must do:

 

Send paint scrapings off to the lab that I list here. DO NOT send anything other that paint scrapings. DO NOT send a part (metal bar or such). ONLY follow the Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (LADDL) directions layed out here.

 

In your letter to the lab - tell them that the samples are from a bird cage and you want the DIGESTION method performed.

 

Forgive me but I don't quite know what you're saying

 

****if you have a powder coated painted cage and it is not Stainless Steel -- then get it tested****

 

Are you saying that there's powder coated cages out there that have a stainless steel base and powder coated cages that don't have a stainless steel base?

 

If a cage is stainless steel, it's not powder coated.

A powder coated cage is wrought iron which is the reason it's powder coated.

 

PS--- All very large sized birds such as macaws should be in stainless steel cages. There's no other bird that can be as destructive as they are. Powder coating to them is like a banana skin.

Edited August 4, 2011 by Dave007