[Nicky]

hi there

can anyone please tell me why stella eats paper, they have paper at the bottom of the cage , and every morning when i clean their cage the paper is chewed away and now the other day i have discovered that its stella,

please help

looking forward to reading your response:blink:

 

[Bea]

Birds love to chew, and paper is easy to chew to pieces. You can try weaving some paper strips through the cage bars for her to chew.

 

[sweetrsue]

Does she put it all in a little pile? I have a pair that does that when I take thier nestbox down. The male seems to be trying to make a nest. Have you tried putting someting different at the bottom of the cage? The sell all kinds of stuff these days designed to put at the bottom of cages. I've heard bad things about ground walnut shell however.

 

[Bea]

I wouldn't try any of the litters they sell for bird cages - it just makes it harder to monitor the droppings for illness and when the bedding gets moist it is a prime breeding ground for bacteria and other nasties.

 

[atvchick95]

I wouldn't try any of the litters they sell for bird cages - it just makes it harder to monitor the droppings for illness and when the bedding gets moist it is a prime breeding ground for bacteria and other nasties.

I agree and I've read that they cause crop impaction when the birds end up ingesting some



Mine don't "eat" the paper they make lovely spit balls out of it - as long as its plain black/white news paper or plain white Printer paper it's fine

I stay away from store adds that are colored because I don't know what they use to make the colors.

 

[joe]

Garry does this too, he loves to rip paper to bits. I hang the cardboard tube from a kitchen roll on his cage and he destroys it

 

[Nicky]

thanks all of you , your replies really helped.
she/he don't eat it she drops it in the bath water
and it is just black and white news paper i don't like the paper the pet shop sells, its to hard its like sanding paper , and the litters won't work for me.

 

[xxxSpikexxx]

Sounds like she would enjoy a paper towel roll just make sure that the part with the glue on it is cut off