Bird Platforms with Wood Perches

My Birds Love These!
I have 5 cockatiels and 4 budgies. They all have free flight in the house but they go to their big cage to eat and play with their toys. At first, they were a little leery of the new perches and shelves. They just kind of moved around them. But, after a day or so, they started to use them, and now they have some new favorite places to hang out. This set is a great value! You can pay as much for just one or two perches, but this is an excellent set. Each one was easy to install. I love that they come in different sizes and shapes because that is great for the physical health of the birds. It gives them an assortment of ways to perch and climb and exercise and explore. The quality of the wood and hardware is great, and every one of them functions as it should.

Pet rat loves these, just not super supportive.
My pet rat LOVES these, the only issue is that they don’t support her weight very well. The big one does tip down when she stands on it, (though it doesn’t bother her at all) And the little ones do not support her at all, so I had to layer them as you can see in the picture, and thankfully that helped. I think for a smaller animal they wouldn’t have any support issues, but for a bigger animal like a rat, you might need to get creative with how you use them.I don’t worry about her sliding off of or breaking the big one, but I definitely wouldn’t use the small ones individually for a bigger animal🤷‍♀️

You’ll need to go buy your own washers
I bought this product for my two birds, a small conure and an African grey. The large shelf/perch was meant for the grey, and the little ones are a great size for the conure. Normally I’d make this myself, but I’m busy, and I’d rather spend the time playing with the birds. The order came promptly, and the shelves are nicely made. Great so far. EXCEPT. First, there’s only one washer for each shelf. If you’ve ever installed anything that attaches to the wall of a bird, hamster, or gerbil cage, you know you need a washer for the inside and one for the outside of the cage or it won’t work. This is particularly true if what you’re installing is a nice, thin little shelf that fits right between your cage bars, so if you put the washer on the outside, the shelf will fall right off, and if you put it on the inside, the shelf will still fall right off. (Note to the folks who made these: test your stuff on real animal cages, not the ones at Petco. The bars are farther apart, even for little finches.) Which leads me to the second point. The washer they DID provide was so small that even if there had been two of them, the shelf STILL would have fallen off, because it slid through the gap between the bars. It’s larger than the gap, but not large enough that when you screw the nut and bolt nice and tight, it doesn’t pull through. This is true of my conure’s cage, and her cage bars aren’t wide, so you can imagine that it was a total no-go for the grey. You might still be able to get this to work if you managed to place the shelves between two vertical bars so that the shelf couldn’t pull through, except that they put the bolts in the skinny end of the three small shelves, so they’re more like diving boards, and most cages don’t have vertical bars that are that close together. The long shelf does have the bolts on the long edge. All that said, I think my girls will like the shelves once I can actually get them in the cages securely. None of the washers from their old toys fit. It’s just a pain in the kiester to have to make the trip when the point of ordering these was to avoid that. Recommend putting the bolt on the long side of at least one of the small perches in addition to using larger washers and adding a second washer to each. Realize most of your clients aren’t going to use this with an African grey, but many will with smaller birds.

My chinchilla loves them
My chinchilla loves them