largely depends on the taste of the buyer. Experts recommend purchasing cages whose rods are painted black or brown.

Rectangular cage
The cage should be placed in the room where you spend the most time. It can be a living room, and a kitchen, and an office. When installing a cage in any place, it must be remembered that in the future it is undesirable to move it to another room or move it. In addition, you should not place the cage in the center of the room, in a draft, or close to the TV. It is better to place it near the wall.

The cage should be on a stand or table. Some pet bird lovers hang their parrots on the wall.

If the place allotted for the cage is not warm enough and bright enough, it is advisable to illuminate the cage during the day with a dim (25 W) electric light bulb.

Inльеры
Many experienced poultry farmers often keep cockatiels in aviaries, which are installed both indoors and outdoors. Inльер можно купить в зоомагазине или изготовить самостоятельно.

Inльеры на открытом воздухе
If you live in your own detached house and have a garden or at least a small fenced area in front of the house, you can provide ideal conditions for keeping cockatiels by building an outdoor aviary.

At the same time, it is necessary to protect the birds from drafts and build reliable shelters in the aviary. In addition, in cool weather, the amount of high-fat food should be increased. In the cold season, it is not recommended to keep cockatiels outdoors.

Cells и вольеры, спаянные оловом или скрепленные с помощью гаек и винтов, не подходят для cockatiel content. Left alone, the parrot can completely dismantle its cage and get out of it.

To build an open-air enclosure, first dig a small pit about 60 cm deep and with an area equal to the area of ​​​​the enclosure. Then fill the hole with a 10 cm layer of crushed stone, which is carefully leveled, and lay a metal mesh on it, you can use an animal mesh or a chain-link (its cells should be about 10 mm). Cover the mesh with Kuzbass varnish or liquid tar.

Build a plinth along the perimeter of the pit from concrete and bricks and attach the frame of the future aviary to it. Only then fill in a new layer of rubble (about 20 cm) and fill the hole with soil.

Cover the frame of the aviary with a mesh, pre-treated with a metal brush and coated with black oil or nitro paint (you can also use Kuzbass varnish). Fix the mesh with bolts and nuts or weld it to a frame made of a steel channel 45–50 mm wide or to a duralumin corner of the same dimensions.

The finished aviary should have at least 2 blank walls, in one of which arrange a door about 1 m high. It is best if the door is equipped with a small vestibule where you can store the necessary equipment and food supplies. Although the main purpose of such a vestibule is to prevent the birds from flying out of the aviary at the moment when the front door opens. The vestibule door should be made on a stretching spring.

Cover the enclosure with a roof from above, pour coarse river sand on part of the bottom, and plant lawn grass, cereals or dandelions on the rest. If the floor in the aviary is concrete, the grass can be sown in boxes with earth. In addition, in the summer you can throw armfuls of meadow plants on the floor of the aviary.

When constructing a street enclosure, it should be remembered that the optimal location of its front side is to the south or southeast.

With this arrangement, the first rays of the sun enter the aviary, and the parrots can sunbathe, using the maximum solar heat and light during the day.

indoor enclosures
The basis for the room aviary is the floor on which the frame is placed. The walls of the room, regardless of their covering, should be protected with wire mesh. In the aviary, it is necessary to make a door, the size of which would allow changing food and cleaning the premises. The bottom of the enclosure must be covered with sand.

Before paint the interior of the enclosure with oil and other paints, make sure that they do not contain toxic substances.

For the manufacture of indoor aviary, you can use multi-layer plywood, plastic, mesh, as well as steel or duralumin corner. The outer parts of the aviary can be finished to look like furniture or varnished.

A metal mesh for an aviary with cells measuring 16 × 48 mm should be made of sufficiently strong wire. You can not use brass and copper wire, as its surface is covered with oxides, and parrots, often grabbing the wire with their beak, swallow small particles of oxidized metal, which can cause severe poisoning.

It is best to use a fur net for an aviary, the main advantage of which is the simplicity and reliability of attachment to any frame. In addition, in the event of damage to an individual cell, such a mesh does not lose its strength.

In the aviary, cockatiels feel comfortable
If the frame is made of wooden bars, the mesh is attached to it from the inside, having previously closed the corners of the bars accessible to the bird's beak with steel corners.

The pallet for the indoor aviary is usually made of a material that does not corrode when exposed to moisture for a long time.

Inventory
A cage or aviary containing cockatiels must be equipped with perches made of solid wood (maple, beech, oak, birch). The cross-sectional shape of the perch should be oval, and its thickness should be such that the bird can almost completely wrap its fingers around the perch without damaging the skin.

Many hobbyists equip cages and aviaries with hardwood branches with bark. For example, wicker of a certain diameter can be used instead of commercially available ready-made perches.

Plastic perches are not suitable for parrots (with the exception of the new rubber-coated design): birds that constantly sit on plastic perches often suffer from leg ailments.

Inventory
In large enclosures, you can put tubs with young trees or shrubs planted in them (willow, aspen, birch, mountain ash, currant), which will serve not only as a place for sitting cockatiels, but also as additional feeding (eaten plants must be replaced periodically to new ones).

Parrot feeders should be made of non-toxic materials (plastic, porcelain, glass). In addition, the edges of the feeders should never be sharp.

Feeders can be of various designs, the main thing is that the birds do not clog their contents with droppings, and sitting on the side, do not turn over the container with food.

It is undesirable to use high feeders, as the husk from the grain lying on top will cover the feed.

If the cage is not equipped with special retractable feeders, saucers with food should be placed in the immediate vicinity of the cage door so as not to disturb the birds once again.

As drinkers, it is recommended to use vacuum automatic drinkers made of plastic or glass. Secure the drinker with wire rings to one of the cage bars, next to, but not under, the perch or swing.

Toys for cockatiels
Many cockatiels love to swim, so it is advisable to equip the cage with a hanging plexiglass bathing suit or a plastic bath.

In a cage with cockatiels, it is advisable to hang a ladder and a swing. When choosing them, you should use the recommendations given regarding the perches. If only 1 parrot lives in a cage, and you often leave the house for a long time, it is advisable to place toys in the cage. It can be a mirror, bells, as well as balls strung on a wire.

Cleaning and disinfection
To prevent various diseases of parrots, cages and aviaries must be thoroughly cleaned and regularly disinfected. If you do not pay due attention to these two main preventive measures, parrots will get sick all the time.

Disinfection measures are successful only if they are preceded by a thorough cleaning of the room in which the cages or aviary are located. The purpose of cleaning is to remove all organic and inorganic debris in a cage or aviary where birds are kept.

Experts distinguish 3 layers of dirt:

› structural dirt particles;

› mud cover;

› sticky dirt.

Cleaning allows you to get rid of the first two layers of dirt and allows the disinfectant to destroy pathogens.

If you put special paper in the tray, it must be changed every day. Sand and sawdust are changed as they get dirty, but not less than after 6–7 days. Drinkers and feeders are washed with a brush.

Wash the cage as thoroughly as possible. If the parrot is tame and flies freely around the apartment while you are cleaning, it must be released.

Before проводить дезинфекцию помещения для птиц, надо сделать сухую, а затем влажную уборку. After wet cleaning, all surfaces and utensils should be dry, as water can reduce the concentration of the disinfectant, as well as cause unwanted chemical reactions.

In the event that your birds have not yet been tamed, it would be best to transplant them into a transport cage or cage.

In время уборки выньте из клетки поддон, кормушки, поилки, ванночки, игрушки, ветки и вымойте все это с помощью щетки и моющего средства. Then rinse all inventory with clean water.

You can use bleach or other disinfectants to disinfect the cage. After treatment with a disinfectant solution, the cage must be thoroughly washed with clean water.

It is rather problematic to carry out disinfection of the ground cover in open-air cages. Microbes that cause