Did you know those cute little huts stimulate your birds.
Did you know most birds concider those little huts a nesting place.
Did you know in the wild there are no cute little huts.
Did you know that those cute little huts can and do create more stress unto your birds.
Most humans want a bird for companionship, all birds wish to mate and have love and companionship, this is what they do, this is Mother nature running her coarse, all living things follow mothers intentions.
Most humans only have but one bird, weather female and or male, this ONE bird is programed to have a mate, programed to reproduce, without the presents of an opposite sex and being provided material as if there is a mate present will cause problems for your bird, ontop of problems that will naturally occur by not having a mate.
In females one will see excessive egg laying, in males one might see feather plucking and or the mating with a human hand.
Everything we humans do will control how our bird respond to us and everyday life being a caged animal (controled).
Then folks think (Maybe I should get my bird a companion).
Over the years I have learned a few things that help reduce the stress unto birds, If I am to keep them caged and as a PET, I need to know what stimulates them.
One is, those cute little huts.
BW

This is EXACTLY why I will not get my birds a "cute little hut," because they might bring out mating and nesting behaviors.

I am sorry but I use one of those cute little huts! Kenji uses it I should say! He goes into it as the sun goes down and sleeps in it! And gets very upset if I take it out!

There are some species of parrots who sleep in their nest holes year round, I suppose to keep some other bird or critter from taking it over. The cute little huts are fine for these species. The huts are bad for species who only use nest holes for nesting, like those notorious egg-laying cockatiels.

Oh no - Travy loves his little hut!

my suns sleep in boxes year round. for the breeders the nesting behaviour is when they start remodeling the box prior to laying. The pets like to hide away I think it makes them feel safe. The budgies dont sleep in boxes year round and even the snuggly pets choose to perch at night.

Both of my conures have a hut. Danny won't go in it but sleeps up next to it. Doyle sleeps in it everynight. Prinny doesn't have one as I didn't want to incourage nesting behaviors. I have read and been told that conures like to have something to sleep in.

Please don't mis understand me, My wife provides those little huts for our Quakers, "against my wishes", by all means they do provide a sense of security and warmth.
I was looking at a picture here on PC of someone with a conure that has plucked badly, I believe this person just adopted the little one, one picture shows the bird inside one of those little huts called a tent, where the hut is completely enclosed other than a round hole to get in and out, this little hut is a nesting/nest to the bird and may cause problems down the road.
I know in the past that same little hut was used here by me and my Laura, She turned vicious within days of giving her that hut.
Birds perch (if healthy) on one leg, turn there head and bury it into there feathers of there backs and go to sleep, when mating and breeding they build a nest.
The nest is used for one thing and one thing only, to re-produce.
You will find that even those birds that "nest" in cavities of trees, only do this during the mating season, most of the time they perch and sleep just like any other bird.
When we provide our little ones with those cute little huts, this is the signal we send to them...its breeding time....
Its your call, I am simply saying, these little huts can cause problems for you and your bird.
Thanks.
Arty

Chaska has one and she loves to sleep in it. She only goes in there at night, she has never been the slightest bit "nesty". She isn't territorial about it with me, I can reach in and scratch her head, I can basically do anything I want with her! This one is in the bedroom cage, sometimes I bring her in here but she has another one in the main bird room, a yellow one.

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