My SI Ekkies

[LisaM]

Just tried uploading pics to Photobucket and rotating them...trying to see if I can post into a message here...

 

Katie

 

Katie's Cage

 

 

Here's a close-up of Max

 

Max on his cage door

 

Let's see if this works...

[judygram]

What beautiful SI Eclectus parrots, they have such lovely colors and that is an unusual cage that you have there for Katie, thanks for sharing these with us.

[lovemyGreys]

wow lovely pictures, i love ekkie's their soooo cute

[Tari]

I just love Ekkies. Is that acrlic cage a real bugger to clean? How is the ventalation on it?

It looks nice but mine would always be a mess. lol

[LisaM]

I actually just got the acrylic cage. It was "used" by someone who had a CAG. It's one from Parrot Island store in Burnsville, MN. (I don't think some of the others out there have adequate ventilation ... these cages have been thoroughly tested for air flow - they have 1"x15" slots spaced every 2" on all sides as well as the top. They are what they keep all their parrots in in their store and in their homes). They're also what our local bird boarding place keeps parrots in as they feel they are easier to sanitize between birds). It's SUPER easy to clean (Oxyfresh and paper towels). I think it's a lot easier than the other cages. And the best thing is that you can tell when it's not...no place for it to hide. I have a bugger of a time cleaning the other cages when they poop down the sides and it gets in the tiny crevices where the vertical bars meet the horizontal, etc. It takes me about 1/4 the time to clean the whole acrylic cage as it does to "spot clean" the others.

 

Oh, the one note I should put is that I don't feed her "soft" foods in there...they're all given at the kitchen table or on their playstands. So that helps keep the "food spray" down in the cage itself. She has access to her dry mix all day in there.

 

The cage she came with was only 24x24 and was the worst designed cage I could ever imagine as there was a groove along the bottom of the door and the sides that junk would collect in...never felt I could get it clean without hauling it in the shower or outside. Plus it was WAY too small. She's a very dominant bird and with her old cage the minute I would open the doors when I got home she was going over to the other birds cages (I think she was jealous). She loves this new cage. Went right into it eagerly, checked it all out (I put perches and toys from her old one in there so it wasn't ALL new) and won't come out unless I have her step out to come out. She'll hang out just inside the door or on the little ledge on the door (I'm going to get some sort of perch routed out to slip on the front ledge to give her something more comfortable to hang out on if she wants to, or a rope perch I can hook to the openings under the door).

 

This used one is a little test for me because if I like it I may get them for the others, at least the male ekkie because I don't like his cage either. They have them in 48x24 size so that's what I'll likely get next (this was was really cheap for a "trial run" compared to new).