Canary Cages

When it comes to choosing a cage for your canary first you must understand what your canary needs because without that knowledge you could make a mistake and choose wrongly.

Canaries don’t do what parrots, cockatiel’s and parakeets do. These bigger birds spend their time climbing up and down and around in their cages so their best cage shape is tall.

Canaries on the other hand don’t climb, they fly and hop about and they fly horizontally – not vertically so they need a lower cage but wider so they can fly happily and keep fit and strong. Don’t give them a cage with a penthouse, they won’t enjoy it. Give them a wide, low ceilinged abode and they will thrive.

Don’t be swayed by cage design, I admit some of them are beautiful to look at, like a pagoda for instance, or double height and narrow, but your canary would be miserable in one of these and would inevitable go into a decline and die. You wouldn’t want that to happen I know so choose wisely.

Don’t let anyone try to sell you a cage which you know to be wrong. The welfare of your pet must come before aesthetic design.

Ideally Canary cages should be at the very minimum 20″ wide, wider is better though. You need to position the perches one at each end so the bird can fly between them, back and forth, and this is how he gets his exercise.

I am presuming that you have chosen a canary because you want him to sing. You must have a healthy and happy canary if you are to have him sing to you.

Make sure that food and water containers are not under or near perches otherwise the food and water will be contaminated with the birds droppings.

As with other small birds, bars need to be no wider apart than 1/2″ to avoid your bird getting his head stuck.

Also Canary cages should NOT be round, your bird is going to feel more comfortable and certainly more secure in a rectangular cage with corners. This is where they retreat when they feel threatened in any way.

Happy cage hunting.