they attach to the cage anywhere really. and are pink , blue,,, or green, or yellow i think,,
they are all like sandpaper..

i read somewhere that they are good for once in a while to file the nails but for the long run not good for the feet of birds.. is that correct???


i hope i am in the right forum......
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I've always heard that the cement perches are not good on feet in the long run.

Ollie and Dakota both have Sandyperches and love them. I love them too! Ollie has only needed to have 3 nails filed in the 2 years that I've had her. She loves to rub her beak across it too and do a little extra self-grooming.

It is good if you have a lot of different textured perches in the cage. It would not be good to have all the perches made of sandpaper. If you use a sandpaper perch don't have it in an area the bird likes to sit, like the sleep perch or the food perch. Put a natural wood perch and a rope perch in the cage with the sand perch. I have a perch sort of like a mineral block with grooves on it. My perch is outside the cage.

I haven't bought that one but i am really thinking about it. Having a few short perches opens up the cage a lot & can offer each bird a quiet spot. I like the undulating shape - nice for their feet. 2horse's mineral perch is a cool one as well - i just haven't seen any around here.

I have a cement one - beside the door & is used a bit like a ladder to another perch. [in my mother's Tiel's cage i placed 2 on one side as a ladder & they used it a lot] It was bought to reduce nail clipping but it really hasn't worked too well - however they do use it for cleaning their beaks. I also put their millet treat above it to encourage them to go by.

Like was said before me - they're OK if they are only part of the perch set up & not in the area they sleep. They might be great outside the cage to be used as ladders to another spot - they would use it in transit.