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Wow... I just came back to check on my thread and so many replies!!
I decided not to clip his wings as I realised that he does not use his beak to climb about like a parrot, so might get upset if he can't get about.
I have got a smaller cage. I put this to the door of his cage and he hops inside and I close the door and carry him to the house / patio so he can be next to me. He seems to like this.
To answer some of the points made by other posters.
1. He can not live inside the house... these birds are much more messy than a parrot.. they have massive watery sloppy poop that they produce at an unbelievable rate... I don't want my furniture / computer / carpet covered in sloppy bird poops.
2. Clipping a birds wings in a hot issue I am sure. But I have one parakeet which got a disease so his flight and tail feathers fell out. He lives in an aviary with my other 20 budgies and he is just as happy as the rest even through he can't fly. Also heavy breeds of chickens, ducks, domestic geese can't fly because of their weight, so should be stop breeding them too? Many birds that end up living on islands loose their ability to fly over time as they don't need to escape predators and can save energy on not flying. Are these birds stressed and not as happy because of this.. is that cruelty to them to have evolved not to fly?
Clipping a birds wings is NOT like tying a dogs legs together. That is cruelty.. the dog would not be able to move about or run, and its going to be very scared, and uncomfortable with the ropes. Clipping a birds wings is painless, like cutting out hair. It can still freely move about, and when done correctly the bird can still 'fly' enough to glide gently down to the floor if it jumps into the air.
3. My birds cage is 7ft X 3ft, X 4ft. I made it myself out of wood and green aviary mesh. Its got a mesh floor and pull out tray to keep it clean. It is tall and has an upper level in the roof space with nesting box and shelf, which he uses as his bedroom. He is not interested in toys, I tried bird toys, cat / dog toys etc, but he just ignores them. But he does love to bath, peel his own bananas and then carry the skins about and dunk them in his drinking bowl to make a 'soup' lol.
4. I have commercial mynah bird pellets which are easy to get here in Thailand. He also eats banana, papaya, kiwi fruit, apple, grapes and a few mealworms and crickets.
5. Poster Helloworld. Your birds look like the common mynah bird to me, not hill mynahs. We have a lot of them in our garden as they are native here... a pair is building a nest in the roof... they are a funny to watch, but are a bit of a pest and very noisy. They wake us up in the morning singing outside the window. He also have crested /white vented mynah birds too. They are very cute looking but a bit shyer of humans. I see huge flocks of them roosting in the tall bamboo of my neighbours house, and they are often perched on the backs of the cows and buffalos in the fields.
PS, I think my bird is much happier outside then inside. He has the fresh air, sunshine, stimulation to watch activity going on around him and other birds. He get the natural UV light from the sun too and gets the advantage to eat any bugs and insects then wander into his cage.
I'll get some photos of him and post them on here. I love him very much and he is so beautiful, when the light hits his feathers they are shiny purple and rainbow colours.
I decided not to clip his wings as I realised that he does not use his beak to climb about like a parrot, so might get upset if he can't get about.
I have got a smaller cage. I put this to the door of his cage and he hops inside and I close the door and carry him to the house / patio so he can be next to me. He seems to like this.
To answer some of the points made by other posters.
1. He can not live inside the house... these birds are much more messy than a parrot.. they have massive watery sloppy poop that they produce at an unbelievable rate... I don't want my furniture / computer / carpet covered in sloppy bird poops.
2. Clipping a birds wings in a hot issue I am sure. But I have one parakeet which got a disease so his flight and tail feathers fell out. He lives in an aviary with my other 20 budgies and he is just as happy as the rest even through he can't fly. Also heavy breeds of chickens, ducks, domestic geese can't fly because of their weight, so should be stop breeding them too? Many birds that end up living on islands loose their ability to fly over time as they don't need to escape predators and can save energy on not flying. Are these birds stressed and not as happy because of this.. is that cruelty to them to have evolved not to fly?
Clipping a birds wings is NOT like tying a dogs legs together. That is cruelty.. the dog would not be able to move about or run, and its going to be very scared, and uncomfortable with the ropes. Clipping a birds wings is painless, like cutting out hair. It can still freely move about, and when done correctly the bird can still 'fly' enough to glide gently down to the floor if it jumps into the air.
3. My birds cage is 7ft X 3ft, X 4ft. I made it myself out of wood and green aviary mesh. Its got a mesh floor and pull out tray to keep it clean. It is tall and has an upper level in the roof space with nesting box and shelf, which he uses as his bedroom. He is not interested in toys, I tried bird toys, cat / dog toys etc, but he just ignores them. But he does love to bath, peel his own bananas and then carry the skins about and dunk them in his drinking bowl to make a 'soup' lol.
4. I have commercial mynah bird pellets which are easy to get here in Thailand. He also eats banana, papaya, kiwi fruit, apple, grapes and a few mealworms and crickets.
5. Poster Helloworld. Your birds look like the common mynah bird to me, not hill mynahs. We have a lot of them in our garden as they are native here... a pair is building a nest in the roof... they are a funny to watch, but are a bit of a pest and very noisy. They wake us up in the morning singing outside the window. He also have crested /white vented mynah birds too. They are very cute looking but a bit shyer of humans. I see huge flocks of them roosting in the tall bamboo of my neighbours house, and they are often perched on the backs of the cows and buffalos in the fields.
PS, I think my bird is much happier outside then inside. He has the fresh air, sunshine, stimulation to watch activity going on around him and other birds. He get the natural UV light from the sun too and gets the advantage to eat any bugs and insects then wander into his cage.
I'll get some photos of him and post them on here. I love him very much and he is so beautiful, when the light hits his feathers they are shiny purple and rainbow colours.