Setting Up A Hospital Cage For Moon (365 views)

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Hello Feather Talk members!

I have a cockatiel named Moon. Moon has recently had a night fright from an animal attack. I brought all my birds inside my garage to keep them safe from that animal and one day I notice that Moon is limping on his left foot. I think Cloudia bit it when he wasn't giving her head scratches.

So now I have a little problem, How do I set up a hospital cage for him? I have this cage
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Should I put low perches for him or should there just be a flat surface?
Moon puts his foot in his body 75% of the day. but he sometimes walks normally and he climbs the cage bars 25% of the day.
i just put a heating pad on the bottom of his cage and he didn't use it yet. i think he would use it if there only one perch in his cage

thank you for reading and trying to help out my Moony boy

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I don't think Cloudia ingured him since I just looked back at some videos before I noticed that he injured it and I see that he was lifting it up in his body

[Shelly]

i would have padding on the bottom and try to keep things flat or use really fat perches so his foot can be stretched out and he doesn't have to really grip. make sure he isn't climbing on the sides of the cage. keep him warm too

[Casey]

i agree with Shelly keep it covered on 3 sides as well to help keep him warm

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He is so much better now!! His whole toe was very orange and a little puffy but now it's all healed! He can perch fine now and he can lift his foot while stretching now

[Shelly]

yay!