How to Make a Parrot Tower

Parrots like it when they have a quality tower to perch upon. you can buy artificial "dowel" towers, but it is way better to build your own from natural wood. Perfectly, you want to build a tower with various branches of different sizes and shapes for your pet parrot -- smaller perches allow for a better grip and enable the bird to properly stretch and exercise its wings, while larger perches will help keep its nails well-trimmed.

Things you need

1. Rope or steel wire
2. 4-foot-high trunk of manzanita or other hard wood
3. Wood glue
4. "Branches" for the tower

Instructions

1

Acquire the wood needed for your tower. You can buy various branches made of manzanita or other hard woods at various pet supply stores. Alternatively you can look in your backyard or neighbourhood for good hard branches. If you are doing this, make sure you scrub the branches with hot water, or even "roast" the branches in your oven for about an hour before construction -- this gets rid of microscopic insects. Select a large branch, at least 4-foot high and with multiple forks, to be the main trunk of the tower. Select a few smaller pieces to be the branches of the tower.

2

Get yourself a plastic or metal box to act as a litter box. You can buy these boxes with wheels from a pet store. Now affix your trunk onto the base of the box. Some store-bought boxes will have a wire mesh netting that helps support the trunk. Otherwise, you'll have to use wood glue. Line the box with wood chips.

3

Align the secondary branches flat across the forks of the main trunk. Attach them onto the main trunk with wood glue and rope or steel wires. You should have branches of various sizes to accommodate the various needs of your parrot.

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