Useful video! The boys love flying up to the curtain pole. We don't mind that but they love chewing the wallpaper which is something we worry about them doing! We use woven mats and cable ties near the joints to stop them!
I always avoid anything that is spikey plastic because my first bird was killed by a broken plastic toy that went right into her heart. This plastic may be soft now but plastic dries out and hardens and may become very sharp after awhile. Please check often because plastic properties changes with time. I am able to discipline my birds from landing on "my stuff" by nipping it in the bud from the very beginning. I basically use methods to change their behavior like one would change a child's behavior.
@@Loveofpets yes, check often and I am pretty sure after awhile they will get over the fear of going there and will perch on it. By that time, you would have thought of another different deterrent and the process will start again. I love all your videos!
Brilliant! My parakeet loves my wooden blinds. Yesterday the new foraging tree arrived and he is really enjoying it. Fingers crossed that the blinds will be forgotten and the tree will replace them. It makes me feel better knowing that I am not the only one dealing with this. Drives me crazy trying to find something less destructive, than my front room blinds, for "Jack" to occupy his time with.
My indian ringneck has claimed my curtains as his safe spot and just like yours he rips holes in them and poops all over them but what makes it worse is that my birds are in my bedroom so the curtains are even more important to be kept in good condition. I will definitely look into trying these. Thank you for the tips!
So glad I am not the only one with doors that now look like this LOL! Lucky to have a house with a room I can transform into the bird room/home office. Thank you for all the great ideas
I appreciate you taking your time to share this information. My birds are terrible about getting on certain light fixtures, and other things they aren't supposed to perch on. I am desperate to stop them, I have tried all kinds of shiny things, even a stuffed owl... 😅 thanks so much!
What works for me on almost any surface was to use a sticky furniture bumper, then attach fishing string so its not obvious to visitors across the curtain rods from one end to another. This prevented them from wanting to land on any surface like the top of the television, pc monitors . This way I could essentially hide the deterrent. I wanted to try the plastic spikes but they were always too big or visually unappealing
Honestly so helpful thank you!! My parakeets loveee the area above my curtains but they chew at the brick mortor and i worry about that being safe for them. And like you everything else didn’t work they liked it lol. This is a great tip thanks!
i'm currently taking care of an orphan sparrow who loves sitting on the curtain rod. now my curtains are all stained with beautiful white stripes lol. this is what i've been looking for, thanksss
Great video! I used to have curtains on the window a few years ago but my 4 budgies did quite a number on it; tore it up into fibers, with poop all over it, thus when washed, the curtains fell apart. I resorted to hard plastic blinds and they are holding up; the birds can't sit on top due to the blinds fitting into the wall of the window and they don't like sitting in between each blind's small space. Now for the correct pronunciation of the metal that you call "tin foil" - it's aluminum. I recall you saying the same back when you presented the outdoor aviary. In North America, it's pronounced AH - LOO- MIN - UM. In Europe, it's pronounced AL - YOU - MIN - E - UM; it's probably spelled differently in Europe also. When I was in college over 30 years ago, I remember the international students from Europe joking about how the U.S. pronounced aluminum (AH - LOO - MIN - UM), because they pronounced it AL- YOU - MIN - E- UM; I can't remember if they said it was spelled differently in Europe. Anyway, thanks for info on this affordable protection for curtains and doors.
@@Marijemarijee Wow, I never thought there was a spelling difference; I just thought it was a pronunciation difference. I guess it's like we're "two world's apart", just kidding, LOL.
@@Loveofpets Get a load of this; I had an uncle that would take me fishing and he would tell me to wrap my sandwich in "Lead Foil" to keep it fresh for the day. Yep, he called it "Lead Foil". Can you imagine if he actually thought it was lead?...no concern about lead poisoning...LOL.
Hi Donna, I like your idea and know that anything you do around your birds is done with safety and the well being of your birds in mine. I might have somehow, made a long long perch over the curtains and tried it , but Iam sure what you are doing is a lot easier.Just digging out of 17” of snow ❄️.counting the days till spring, lol. Iam on lockdown too ! Bye bye keep safe.
My bird LOVES going on my doorway, but at nighttime when he needs to go in his cage it's really hard to get him down because I'm a little on the shorter side
My parakeet is always on top of my back dore curtens! He usually doesent stay there too long but there is a crack in the paint on the wall due to the rod holding up the curtens. He always chews on it!!! I don't think he is eating the paint but I'm sure he could still ingest it. I try putting things infront of it witch helps sometimes. 😅
Hehehe, I'smiling while watching this.I think every bird owner has these experiences. Our birds don't even care about the plush tiger (ten times the volume of a tiel) we put on top of a cabinet. The blanket on the heating pipes (old appartment) is a beloved, warm and cosy place. For some reasons they do not chew on the curtains when they perch up there. Wallpapers is some other issue, there we have to intervene. Sometimes I think that some chewing toys are only a phase. And the birds are always searching for new things owner will forbid.😉 In the end the room design is ruined, either if the birds chew on things they shouldn't or by putting up bird scaring things. Sometimes I'm thinking of modelling a scarecrow. But something in mind is telling me, the parrots will observe it and after a few days play with the soundmaking parts of the scarecrow. Thanks for your advice with the spikes. I'll keep that in mind.
Can't believe it 😳😳 This was exactly I was searching from Last week 😊😬😬 thanks But I can't buy those mat and everything else didn't work for me too Sometimes I stand for hours putting millets in my hand calling for them 😭😭😭 And when I try to train them before that only they will fly on the fans or curtain
I can relate 😂 My turquoise parrot loves getting on top of the overheads in the kitchen and pantry. She particularly likes to go on the pantry when she’s hormonal (I have 600ml water bottles on top of the pantry to stop her) I have cardboard on my cabinet where she likes to sit. But one place I can’t work out how to stop her from going on is on top of my gas wall heater. I don’t have it on but she gets on the top and scraps it with her beak. I tried a feather duster, a Halloween cat, my dad made something with wire but she’d just eventually get used to it. I just keep shooing her off 🙄
Yes how to get them from landing on the trim work and chew? Its bad mine even chewed half thru the wall... I stapled plastic all over the frame to help and it did work it is just ugly.
Great idea! Can you please make a video on birds making nests and hormones. No matter how many places I block my male Green Cheek Conure finds somewhere to make a nest. I finally gave up and let him have one and he hasn't been a problem. My question is: will this prolong the hormone season or will it stop on its own?
When I first got my budgie he used to land on top of the curtains and cupboards and doors and wouldn't come down, but now that he's settled in, he never goes up there anymore
Hii ! My new budgie did the same thing, she'd be sitting in the curtain poles and pooping all day. I need some tips of how you make ur budgie stop landing on curtains please 🥺 Also how long did it take for your budgie to settle in ?? Tysmm
@@anastasialaras68 I can't remember exactly how long it took him to settle in, probably a couple weeks or maybe 1-2 months. He stopped landing on the blinds when I gave him different options to perch on that he preferred!
I had three lovebirds last January. I set up my room with a long small shelf above the curtain that is easy to take down and clean easily and it extended about 2-3 inches beyond the curtains in every direction and touched the wall above the curtains so no droppings would get onto the curtains. It was a $5 piece of siding with three "L" supports and I hung a rope ladder and tent for them above parts of it for fun. They loved it and it was easy to care for. However, despite all the advice I received telling me they needed to be out of the cage for a half-hour a day and trying my best to keep them safe, two out of the three have died from crashing into walls after being started by a thud noise from outside. I was told if I trimmed their wings to glide, they could still get up high enough to attempt to glide down and land too hard and break their chest bone and die. So my birds had full flight feathers. Since they could die from a glide, and two out of three did die from full flight crashing, I now believe birds do not belong in captivity period. They belong out in the jungles where they came from. I do not believe they should be bred for captivity. I got mine as rescues after having been abandoned, but my last little Lovey, Joey, stays in his cage now, for his own safety. I will be getting a bigger cage for him soon, but I am sad he cannot fly free.
I believe after clipping if they can get that high, he would be able to make a safe landing. While his feathers are growing back he can get a feel for the house. That's how I did my parakeets. I have four that fly free all day with no accidents. Of course I'm home to watch them all day. They do get into things. It's worth a try for a happy bird.
@@debhawthorne1691 After losing the other two despite their knowing the room really well and having several places to perch and fly to on every wall, I find it hard to believe that I could prevent a bird with full-flight from startling and running into something eventually. The room I was in was quite large and well set up for them, except that I could not keep out the sound of vehicles from outside. Perhaps that is the difference between your experience and mine. Perhaps you live in a quieter, more predictable environment. If I lived in my old quiet neighborhood I might try it, but with the unpredictability of noise here, I am going to just get as large of a cage as I can manage for him. My daughter could not bear to lose another bird to the same cause. BTW I have trained and cared for wild animals and domesticated animals my whole life. I had my birds trained to go into and out of their cages with a few words and a song. I did the research, but we cannot plan for everything I guess.
I am so sorry for your losses. You sound like such a responsible, loving pet owner and I'd come to the same conclusion if that happened to me. I will say that if you ever reconsider, my budgies have been the most excellent, talented fliers ever.
My ringneck goes up there too and pooping all over my curtains fortunately don't bite them but I can't have people over they all comment on it. I took down the curtains in the living room but it looked awful. Now I put them back but I can't have the birds in living room the ringneck will go straight at them. Then other birds follow. When my small birds are out alone they don't care about the curtains at all. But the ringneck ahh catastrophe it goes straight up on the curtains. I'm desperate. And i can't have them alone in my room and just sit on the living room because they are calling non stop they miss me and I'm sad😢
Well now I need to search every dollar store until I find some of these. My tiels have decided the best spot in the house is on top of the fridge and every time I open the door, feathers and poop get blown inside. Gross.
There is a "perch" at my apartment door, and it just chirps loudly into the door, and it's freaking me out, and if I can't get it to stay in the main part of the apartment, I'm gonna have to give it to someone
My birds have successfully chewed up my door, at both my old AND new house, DESTRYOED a very expensive oil painting, tore a HOLE in my wall, AND pooped on my expensive silk curtains. Who was I to think birds were an elegant pet 😂
Wow you are just beautiful, and I LOVE your caring bubbly personality, along with that gorgeous smile!😍 Are you into younger guys? I could have you feeling 20yrs old again in no time
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how I love 2 year old videos solving my today problems, thank you very much for this information.
Happy to help
Our birds are real terrors with the curtain pole! We bought some maize mats for toy making and put them up there! Seems to help! Great video! 😊
Thank you for sharing. It's a problem no one addresses.
Useful video!
The boys love flying up to the curtain pole. We don't mind that but they love chewing the wallpaper which is something we worry about them doing!
We use woven mats and cable ties near the joints to stop them!
I've watched this before and the cockatiels look like 3 naughty mischievous birds waiting to cause havoc 🤣🤣🤣
Well you never gave up and you deserve credit for that them some smart birds!
I always avoid anything that is spikey plastic because my first bird was killed by a broken plastic toy that went right into her heart. This plastic may be soft now but plastic dries out and hardens and may become very sharp after awhile. Please check often because plastic properties changes with time.
I am able to discipline my birds from landing on "my stuff" by nipping it in the bud from the very beginning. I basically use methods to change their behavior like one would change a child's behavior.
That sounds horrific about your bird with the plastic 😳.
I will keep an eye on my birds. So far none of my birds are touching it.
@@Loveofpets yes, check often and I am pretty sure after awhile they will get over the fear of going there and will perch on it. By that time, you would have thought of another different deterrent and the process will start again. I love all your videos!
Brilliant! My parakeet loves my wooden blinds. Yesterday the new foraging tree arrived and he is really enjoying it. Fingers crossed that the blinds will be forgotten and the tree will replace them. It makes me feel better knowing that I am not the only one dealing with this. Drives me crazy trying to find something less destructive, than my front room blinds, for "Jack" to occupy his time with.
My indian ringneck has claimed my curtains as his safe spot and just like yours he rips holes in them and poops all over them but what makes it worse is that my birds are in my bedroom so the curtains are even more important to be kept in good condition. I will definitely look into trying these. Thank you for the tips!
My budgie did the same thing too! What did u do to stop him ? I need tips:"(
So glad I am not the only one with doors that now look like this LOL! Lucky to have a house with a room I can transform into the bird room/home office. Thank you for all the great ideas
Your welcome 😊
I appreciate you taking your time to share this information. My birds are terrible about getting on certain light fixtures, and other things they aren't supposed to perch on. I am desperate to stop them, I have tried all kinds of shiny things, even a stuffed owl... 😅 thanks so much!
You are so welcome!
That looks like a good idea! Let us know how it works. Thanks for sharing!
This is so clever - thank you!
What works for me on almost any surface was to use a sticky furniture bumper, then attach fishing string so its not obvious to visitors across the curtain rods from one end to another. This prevented them from wanting to land on any surface like the top of the television, pc monitors . This way I could essentially hide the deterrent. I wanted to try the plastic spikes but they were always too big or visually unappealing
Great idea .. I like the issues you are sharing 👍👍
Honestly so helpful thank you!! My parakeets loveee the area above my curtains but they chew at the brick mortor and i worry about that being safe for them. And like you everything else didn’t work they liked it lol. This is a great tip thanks!
i'm currently taking care of an orphan sparrow who loves sitting on the curtain rod. now my curtains are all stained with beautiful white stripes lol. this is what i've been looking for, thanksss
Thanks for sharing that!!! I’m Gigi go crazy trying to figure something out to keep them out of my curtains and for sure going out now to find these!
Good for you to have figured this out! I enjoy your videos! Your birds have a great home!
Awesome
I’ll give it a try
That’s great! I haven’t seen those at my dollar store. I will watch. Like all your tips. Love the birds too.
Good tip! :D
Maybe you can paint it whte. Then it looks a little bit nicer for you..
Thank you for the grat tipp!
Great idea! I'm gonna try that. Thank you so much
Donna, thank you so much for your videos!
That what I use on top of my blinds and fridge. It works well with all my birds except the Amazon who just flies there moves it to the side
Great video! I used to have curtains on the window a few years ago but my 4 budgies did quite a number on it; tore it up into fibers, with poop all over it, thus when washed, the curtains fell apart. I resorted to hard plastic blinds and they are holding up; the birds can't sit on top due to the blinds fitting into the wall of the window and they don't like sitting in between each blind's small space.
Now for the correct pronunciation of the metal that you call "tin foil" - it's aluminum. I recall you saying the same back when you presented the outdoor aviary. In North America, it's pronounced AH - LOO- MIN - UM. In Europe, it's pronounced AL - YOU - MIN - E - UM; it's probably spelled differently in Europe also. When I was in college over 30 years ago, I remember the international students from Europe joking about how the U.S. pronounced aluminum (AH - LOO - MIN - UM), because they pronounced it AL- YOU - MIN - E- UM; I can't remember if they said it was spelled differently in Europe. Anyway, thanks for info on this affordable protection for curtains and doors.
Yep here it’s spelled like aluminium. But it’s more pronounced like ah-luh-mee-nee-um.
I wish it was just called Tin Foil, lol
@@Marijemarijee Wow, I never thought there was a spelling difference; I just thought it was a pronunciation difference. I guess it's like we're "two world's apart", just kidding, LOL.
@@Loveofpets Get a load of this; I had an uncle that would take me fishing and he would tell me to wrap my sandwich in "Lead Foil" to keep it fresh for the day. Yep, he called it "Lead Foil". Can you imagine if he actually thought it was lead?...no concern about lead poisoning...LOL.
Hi Donna, I like your idea and know that anything you do around your birds is done with safety and the well being of your birds in mine. I might have somehow, made a long long perch over the curtains and tried it , but Iam sure what you are doing is a lot easier.Just digging out of 17” of snow ❄️.counting the days till spring, lol. Iam on lockdown too ! Bye bye keep safe.
Did you finish shoveling? Thats a lot of snow. You could make a nice snowman or snowbird with all that snow, lol
I did finish Donna and now a week later we are getting more snow.I think instead of a car I should rent a horse and sleigh, lol
Very useful for free flying birds
My bird LOVES going on my doorway, but at nighttime when he needs to go in his cage it's really hard to get him down because I'm a little on the shorter side
Ur amazing
My african love birds are always on top of the curtains
Great idea!
Thanks for the video, the birds in nature need to trim their beaks regularly that is why they chew anything in the house.
My parakeet is always on top of my back dore curtens! He usually doesent stay there too long but there is a crack in the paint on the wall due to the rod holding up the curtens. He always chews on it!!! I don't think he is eating the paint but I'm sure he could still ingest it. I try putting things infront of it witch helps sometimes. 😅
Very creative
I did the foil lasted for a long time. Now they are chewing it!!! Grrr… so now searching for something. I will give it a try. Thanks!
Thank you for this! I’ve tried everything for my birds and never saw this. This could actually work!
Hehehe, I'smiling while watching this.I think every bird owner has these experiences.
Our birds don't even care about the plush tiger (ten times the volume of a tiel) we put on top of a cabinet. The blanket on the heating pipes (old appartment) is a beloved, warm and cosy place. For some reasons they do not chew on the curtains when they perch up there. Wallpapers is some other issue, there we have to intervene. Sometimes I think that some chewing toys are only a phase. And the birds are always searching for new things owner will forbid.😉
In the end the room design is ruined, either if the birds chew on things they shouldn't or by putting up bird scaring things. Sometimes I'm thinking of modelling a scarecrow. But something in mind is telling me, the parrots will observe it and after a few days play with the soundmaking parts of the scarecrow.
Thanks for your advice with the spikes. I'll keep that in mind.
Wow! That was very helpful video ❤️💯👍🏻✨
I've seen those for pigeons.
Can't believe it 😳😳
This was exactly I was searching from Last week 😊😬😬 thanks
But I can't buy those mat and everything else didn't work for me too
Sometimes I stand for hours putting millets in my hand calling for them 😭😭😭
And when I try to train them before that only they will fly on the fans or curtain
I can relate 😂
My turquoise parrot loves getting on top of the overheads in the kitchen and pantry.
She particularly likes to go on the pantry when she’s hormonal (I have 600ml water bottles on top of the pantry to stop her)
I have cardboard on my cabinet where she likes to sit.
But one place I can’t work out how to stop her from going on is on top of my gas wall heater. I don’t have it on but she gets on the top and scraps it with her beak.
I tried a feather duster, a Halloween cat, my dad made something with wire but she’d just eventually get used to it.
I just keep shooing her off 🙄
Great video Donna!
Yes how to get them from landing on the trim work and chew? Its bad mine even chewed half thru the wall... I stapled plastic all over the frame to help and it did work it is just ugly.
My budgie love the currents
I use them to keep my cats away from around the bird cages and I also place them in too if the cages when the birds are I did
I need those for my doors
Great idea! Can you please make a video on birds making nests and hormones. No matter how many places I block my male Green Cheek Conure finds somewhere to make a nest. I finally gave up and let him have one and he hasn't been a problem. My question is: will this prolong the hormone season or will it stop on its own?
When I first got my budgie he used to land on top of the curtains and cupboards and doors and wouldn't come down, but now that he's settled in, he never goes up there anymore
Hii ! My new budgie did the same thing, she'd be sitting in the curtain poles and pooping all day. I need some tips of how you make ur budgie stop landing on curtains please 🥺 Also how long did it take for your budgie to settle in ?? Tysmm
@@anastasialaras68 I can't remember exactly how long it took him to settle in, probably a couple weeks or maybe 1-2 months. He stopped landing on the blinds when I gave him different options to perch on that he preferred!
@@alanahjade27 omg thank youu, i'll try adding some new perches !
I had three lovebirds last January. I set up my room with a long small shelf above the curtain that is easy to take down and clean easily and it extended about 2-3 inches beyond the curtains in every direction and touched the wall above the curtains so no droppings would get onto the curtains. It was a $5 piece of siding with three "L" supports and I hung a rope ladder and tent for them above parts of it for fun. They loved it and it was easy to care for. However, despite all the advice I received telling me they needed to be out of the cage for a half-hour a day and trying my best to keep them safe, two out of the three have died from crashing into walls after being started by a thud noise from outside. I was told if I trimmed their wings to glide, they could still get up high enough to attempt to glide down and land too hard and break their chest bone and die. So my birds had full flight feathers. Since they could die from a glide, and two out of three did die from full flight crashing, I now believe birds do not belong in captivity period. They belong out in the jungles where they came from. I do not believe they should be bred for captivity. I got mine as rescues after having been abandoned, but my last little Lovey, Joey, stays in his cage now, for his own safety. I will be getting a bigger cage for him soon, but I am sad he cannot fly free.
I believe after clipping if they can get that high, he would be able to make a safe landing. While his feathers are growing back he can get a feel for the house. That's how I did my parakeets. I have four that fly free all day with no accidents. Of course I'm home to watch them all day. They do get into things. It's worth a try for a happy bird.
@@debhawthorne1691 After losing the other two despite their knowing the room really well and having several places to perch and fly to on every wall, I find it hard to believe that I could prevent a bird with full-flight from startling and running into something eventually. The room I was in was quite large and well set up for them, except that I could not keep out the sound of vehicles from outside. Perhaps that is the difference between your experience and mine. Perhaps you live in a quieter, more predictable environment. If I lived in my old quiet neighborhood I might try it, but with the unpredictability of noise here, I am going to just get as large of a cage as I can manage for him. My daughter could not bear to lose another bird to the same cause. BTW I have trained and cared for wild animals and domesticated animals my whole life. I had my birds trained to go into and out of their cages with a few words and a song. I did the research, but we cannot plan for everything I guess.
@@onenanathreekids5662 It is heartbreaking to lose one.
I am so sorry for your losses. You sound like such a responsible, loving pet owner and I'd come to the same conclusion if that happened to me. I will say that if you ever reconsider, my budgies have been the most excellent, talented fliers ever.
@@mapple34 Yeah I had lovebirds in my childhood and they weren’t good fliers. I wonder why that is? Maybe bc they’re stubbier than budgies?
My ringneck goes up there too and pooping all over my curtains fortunately don't bite them but I can't have people over they all comment on it. I took down the curtains in the living room but it looked awful. Now I put them back but I can't have the birds in living room the ringneck will go straight at them. Then other birds follow. When my small birds are out alone they don't care about the curtains at all. But the ringneck ahh catastrophe it goes straight up on the curtains. I'm desperate. And i can't have them alone in my room and just sit on the living room because they are calling non stop they miss me and I'm sad😢
It’s not cruel. Thank you my bird is chewing my grow lights and pooping on my baby plants.
That's smart. I have a question where you get the paper you used on your bird cages? What kind of paper is it?Thanks
Hi, its plain newsprint. I usually get it from Parrotdise Perch or Amazon. Here is a link for you amzn.to/3oVV1js
Well now I need to search every dollar store until I find some of these. My tiels have decided the best spot in the house is on top of the fridge and every time I open the door, feathers and poop get blown inside. Gross.
I spent hours building perches and strings all over the house for the bird but they just went get off the 1 single light wire in the entire house.
My birds(Budgies and Lovebirds) love to go on the top of the roller windows...and you know what I did? I put a wooden perch on the top of it
There is a "perch" at my apartment door, and it just chirps loudly into the door, and it's freaking me out, and if I can't get it to stay in the main part of the apartment, I'm gonna have to give it to someone
What do you mean by there is a perch at your door?
How do you stop your birds flying into the window? I can't close my curtains in the day time
I will make a video soon.
How do you ceep your hause clean ?
vacuum?
I’m okay with my birds perching on my curtain rods.
My budgie chews the wall , and it keeps on going. Please give some advice
Block the wall if you can and move the cage if too close to the wall. Redirect the bird with chewing toys.
Try clicker training.
My birds have successfully chewed up my door, at both my old AND new house, DESTRYOED a very expensive oil painting, tore a HOLE in my wall, AND pooped on my expensive silk curtains. Who was I to think birds were an elegant pet 😂
They can be destructive for sure. My Plum Headed Parakeet ripped up my wall mural
Birds are prey animals so instinctively they go to the highest point to be safe from predators.
Wow you are just beautiful, and I LOVE your caring bubbly personality, along with that gorgeous smile!😍 Are you into younger guys? I could have you feeling 20yrs old again in no time