Clean up day for Ham's Cage - He isn't happy bout it... 

I used to get clean 2x2s and 2x4s from a local woodshop tip or construction site. I'd get pieces 3, 4, or 5 inches not more than 1 1/2 inches thick, split and shortened with a hatchet, hung inside or top of cage with white jute, looks like real thick string. He'd reduce it to little pieces in no time. Also had a huge supply of cardboard egg cartons. Tie half a carton to the top of the cage, and destruction would soon follow. Kept him busy and his beak trimmed.

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Seems, like cats, parrots rule the roost!

So relatable. 😆😂🤣

Bwahaha!!! Same! My parakeet thinks anything new is evil and he must stay on the opposite side of the cage. He won’t even eat millet, which he did at the place I got him from. I left one in at Christmas for 3 days, never touched it. 😂 I took it out and decided not to waste my money.

thats what I thought too.My conures bath is three times that size.

​@Crystal_Seeker71 she has tried bigger bowls,he won't use them, she said! 🤷‍♀️

Parrots have the market cornered on silliness.

My cockatiel does too 😂 Sometimes I catch her at the edge of the sink about to fly into the dirty dishes and I have to get up and say "NOO!!" But when I prepare her own plate of water (with leaves of lettuce and strawberry stems I may add! because she refuses to bathe without them) she's suddenly not interested 😂😅

not as annoying as the whistle my brother and step dad do, my mum had an african gray who picked up said whistle .... think smoke alarm but much louder and higher pitch

We all hated when boys sanctuary room was invaded by moms for whatever reason 🤣

rain or deliberately playing in puddles? My rescue pet lorikeets identify as half duck & go nuts at bath time (well sometimes, other times they refuse, but when they're in a bathing mood, there's no stopping them - and they like really cold water too). Wouldn't surprise me at all if the wild ones were intentionally giving themselves the drowned rat look, especially with the warmer weather

@@mehere8038 Haha yes one time one of them jumped into the shallow small water bowl I gave them to drink from. So cute.

@@beardymcbeardface69 lol yeh the species LOVES water! Is kinda funny, the cockatoos HATE it, but lorikeets LOVE it. I saw a video a while back where some construction type workers had put some water in their lunchbox to give the lorikeets a drink & a dozen or so of them had decided it was bath time & by the time they'd finished, the "bath" was dark brown, but they were STILL jumping into it & bathing & fighting over it. My neighbour's got a bird bath & the lorikeets & noisy miners LOVE it For my pet rescue ones, I mostly set up a bunnings plastic birdbath in my bathroom & the entire bathroom is DRENCHED by the time my boy's finished! My girl's more delicate, but still wets stuff prettywell. She also likes small baths so yeh, little drinking water container is just perfect. She looks very cute just sitting in a bowl she only just fits inside too :) My pet ones, for water containers I use tiny containers, so as to keep the water drinkable & available, cause larger & yeh, it's jump in time at random (not to mention poo into constantly) but even with tiny ones, we still have times where it's "lets fit my entire head into the waterbowl & drench it" lol when my boy does that, I know it's bath time & get him a proper bath, but then half the time he decides he's finished his bath by the time I can set it up & refuses to use the proper bath after that, ah parrots! If you have space, you should consider getting a birdbath, it's hours of entertainment :) The bunnings $30 plastic ones are really good, nice & light weight, so easy to move around, but a good depth for birds & edges are have lots of holes along them, so they're grippy, so the birds seem to really like them. Kitty litter trays are also a great size & very loved I've found

@@mehere8038 I wish I could get them a proper birdbath, however I unfortunately can't since I live in an inner city apartment. So at the moment the best I've been able to do for them is provide small bowls (more like plates with high lips). My girlfriend is a ceramicist so we've talked about making some rectangular ceramic bowls to run the length of the window sill. Hopefully we'll get that done. I'm shocked at how friendly and bold the wild lorikeets can be. After maybe 6 months of developing trust with them, they got to the point that they'll fly in from outside, into my lounge room, or even through the lounge room and into the kitchen, and land on my shoulder, as if to ask where their breakfast is. Sometimes they'll land on my computer monitor and wait for me to attend to them. Your birds look very happy!