Cautionary tale

Missy1

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I am just giving some advice to pet owners who are thinking about making their pets a new cage/ aviary ect...We have had aviary birds for a long time now & had many aviaries that my husband has erected himself.on this new build we have suffered a catastrophic loss of a total of 8 Lorikeet Parrots.After finishing the inside enclosure,my husband successfully erected a new outside space for them in the nicer weather.We added branches & rope swings for them & they really enjoyed having access to the outside. we had an old weather beaten table & bench,So rather than bucket them we chopped it up to use as swings & rope ladders.We noticed quite quickly that the lorikeet parrots were quite vigourously eating away at the cartwheels from the old table & bench.
A couple of months ago we lost 4 lorikeet parrots & after the autopsy we requested,the cause of death was Gastroenteritis,but we never found out at this point what caused the Gastroenteritis, so my husband purchased another 4 Lorikeets Just over a month ago & at the beginning of this week, he went out to feed them & found the 4 new Parrots dead in their cage? We were obviously devastated again & after some Serious Consideration have now found out that the garden furniture with it's preservatives that had been on it had been the cause. We were able to come to this conclusion as the lorikeets were the only birds that eat the wheels & the 2 breeding lorikeets that we had seperated & never let outside into the enclosure are absolutely fine along with the cockatiels,who did not have access to the outdoor enclosure until recently.
I just want anyone who is building their own cages & aviaries to take our very sad story & avoid putting preserved wood anywhere near your pets who will naturally just want to chew It? Everything that had any preservative on it has now been removed & we will only be replacing swings & ropes with untreated or natural wood & branches..Please don't be as uninformed as we were & lose your very much loved pets???...
 
:welcome: I am so sorry to hear what happened to your lovely birds.

Thank you for the information and I am sure our members will be aware of being careful on what woods are offered or even placed in an aviary or indoors.

What a sad experience for you.
 
Hello and welcome, so sorry to hear of such sad losses through an easy mistake that many can make, I am pleased you have highlighted your sad experience so other do not make the same mistake. so thank you.

I do wish that the future will be so much better for your birds and yourselves and if you can get the chance of posting some photos of the aviary and some of your birds I know members will love to see them
 
:welcome: I am so sorry to hear what happened to your lovely birds.

Thank you for the information and I am sure our members will be aware of being careful on what woods are offered or even placed in an aviary or indoors.

What a sad experience for you.
Thankyou for your kind words, i wish we had been a bit more aware of the toxins that are in preservatives & if my post stops even only one person from losing such precious pets it will be well worth sharing our sad experience.
 
Hello and welcome, so sorry to hear of such sad losses through an easy mistake that many can make, I am pleased you have highlighted your sad experience so other do not make the same mistake. so thank you.

I do wish that the future will be so much better for your birds and yourselves and if you can get the chance of posting some photos of the aviary and some of your birds I know members will love to see them
Thankyou Michael for your kind words too, & thankyou for making me feel most welcome, i just wish i had known of your site before & i may have had some welcomed wisdom before our little birds had to pay the price for our ignorance. Here's are a photo's of the birds we sadly lost..20141018_132023.jpg
Thankyou for your kind words, i wish we had been a bit more aware of the toxins that are in preservatives & if my post stops even only one person from losing such precious pets it will be well worth sharing our sad experience.
 
Thank you for yor post, it's very brave of you to join and share these sad events. Like you said though, it may help someone else at some point. That is a beautiful photo of your lorries, it is obvious that you only wished to do the best for them. Unfortunately we all learn from our mistakes from time to time, not that it's any easier. Welcome to the forum though, and it will be nice to celebrate nicer times with you also.
 
Welcome to the forum sorry its under such sad circumstances
I am going to move this post over to the housing section so it doesn't get lost in the general none specific banter .
 
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