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| 35.1 | Bleach | FREKE::HUTCHINS | Feathered Obsessions Aviary | Fri Oct 28 1988 11:44 | 17 |
| Antique cages are beautiful! The safest way to clean and disinfect
is to use clorine bleach 32 parts water 1 part bleach. Bleach i
this concentration kills bacteria and will not hurt the birds.
Hook bill birds like parakeets need bars that go horizontally so
they can cimb. finches need vertical bars. I have seen some parkeets
try to climb on up and down bars and loose footing and end up with
thier little heads caught between bars. Finches fly and rarely
climb and they fray thier tail feathers on horizontal bars.
If you have an old cage you want to paint, us a lacquor base paint
that will not chip and let it dry for a week to 10 days before placing
any birds inside.
Does this help?
Jean
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| 35.2 | enamal (sp?) | NEXUS::M_ROBSON | News item from the Banzia Institute | Fri Oct 28 1988 12:25 | 3 |
| I had thought that Bird Talk always recommended that if you paint
get baked on enamal.
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| 35.3 | Watch for Lead | CSC32::K_WORKMAN | No Dukes! | Fri Oct 28 1988 12:42 | 10 |
| Hi,
I heard somewhere that you need to be sure the cage wasn't made
out of lead or lead coated. Cages coming from out of state, like
mexico may contain leads in the materials used to make the cage.
Might wanna make sure this antique cage has no lead either. I believe
this is very toxic to birds.
Karen
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| 35.4 | | FREKE::HUTCHINS | Feathered Obsessions Aviary | Fri Oct 28 1988 13:02 | 13 |
| I don't know for sure, but I am gonna hit the texts tonite, but,
I should think that cages *made* with lead would be to soft for
support. Lead paint....by all means, and since lead was used so
commonly before it was deemed toxic, check into paint and metal
contents.
Re: baked enamel...,If you have a kiln or oven to bake the cage,
then that is the way to go...we have used spray paint to redo some
cages and then only used those cages for finches...birds that do
not chew.
jean
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| 35.5 | Bird Talk p. 14 (NOV issue) | CSC32::K_WORKMAN | No Dukes! | Fri Oct 28 1988 17:14 | 24 |
| Its me again. I found out where I read about that lead problem.
It was under the CAUSES AND CURES section of the November issue
of Bird Talk. Here is an excerpt:
The use of lead-based paints has been outlawed in the United
States for many years, mainly because of its potential health
hazard to infants and to people who work with the paints. It
is highly probable, though, that lead-based paints can be found
in many other countries, particularly Mexico. I've seen
numerous cases of lead poisoning in birds after they chewed
and/or lived in cages painted in Mexico. Surprisingly, though
many times it is not the paint that contains the lead, but the
leaded gas used to dilute the paint to mass-produce and paint
many cages at one time.
This article is on page 14. You may want to read the rest of it
as it has some hints on how to tell if its lead based paint or not.
I hope I am not discouraging you from using your new cage, I just
want your bird to be nice and healthy and happy in his new home!
Thats all folks......
Karen
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| 35.6 | cage renovation | FSTVAX::WIMMER | | Wed Nov 30 1988 14:26 | 7 |
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I just picked up a used, large parakeet cage that I think is large
enough for a cockatiel. The only thing I'm concerned about is the
absence of a grate on the bottom to keep the bird off the paper.
Any ideas on how to jury-rig something? Or should I not be concerned
about it? Most of the articles I've read in Bird talk seem to say
there should be a grate.
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| 35.7 | I suppose they're nice if you like to cleaning... | VAXRT::RUZICH | How many in your quartet? | Wed Nov 30 1988 16:53 | 8 |
| A grate is just one more thing to clean. I always remove them.
The only useful purpose for a grate is as an aquarium lid.
I use an aquarium as a hospital cage, to keep the heat in. I just
set a light in one of the cheap aluminum reflectors on top of the
grate.
-Steve
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