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| What temperature should Quaker Parrots be kept at? The room that I want to keep it in has no access to air conditioning in the summer. Therefore....the room gets between 90 and 95 degrees during the day and around 80 degrees at night. Is this too hot? I could keep a fan on the cage to keep it cooler if you think that would help. In the winter the room gets down to 70 degrees during the day and 65 degrees at night. Would that be okay? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks
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| Hi. You didn't say whether the Quakers were young chicks to be handreared or a breeding pair or pet for that matter. The body tempature of a bird is about 102 F. so higher than our temp. They can put with quite some heat if there are no other stress factors about to upset them. as long as the tempature doesn't go over the 100 F. you will be safe. Our tempatures over our place go from 1004 F. in summer and sometimes that will make it 120 F. in the nest boxes, the birds offcause come of the chicks than and go back on when it cools down, down to 10 F. in the winter. We have had one year when it was hotter and lost a lot of fertile eggs in the nest boxes due to the heat. Over here the Quakers breed right through the summer when most birds have given up because of the heat but the Quakers keep on going. These birds wait to start breeding till the whether has warmed up. I hope this is of some help to you.
Regards from down under.
Paul.
http://utopiabirds.winsoft.net.au
aviaries@winsoft.net.au
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| Thanks for the info. I don't know yet what age of bird I will be getting. Right now I'm just doing research and making sure I have the cage all set up. I'd like to get a Quaker that is less than three months old, but I can't seem to find one in my area. Thanks.
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| Hi, I would be careful in the aspect of too many tempurature changes... like for instance if you bought your Quaker from a breeder that had a house temp that was a consistant 75 degrees, and then put the bird into the 90-95 degree room. You might end up with a sick or dead bird. Thats first thing... You might want to see if you can put the cage in a room that isnt so hot--not because I don't think that a Quaker couldnt acclimate to a hotter temp, but if you are going to have out of cage time with you in the portion of the home that is AC, then when its time to go back to the cage the birdie is going from cool to hot. That I don't think would work so well. The temps you stated for winter would be just fine.
Stacy Shue
Blake Aviary
www.blakeaviary.com
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