How To Set Up The PERFECT Parrot Cage?

Perches – Offering at least 5 natural wood perches with a variety of widths and textures to keep their feet happy and healthy. Seeing as parrots feet are designed to hold onto all different sizes and textures of wood (no tree branch is perfectly smooth, knot free and the same size) you want to try your best to mimic this in your parrots cage. You can include more than just wood perches but I avoid plastic perches as parrots seem to slip on them.
Toys – at least 2 foraging toys and at least 4 shreddable toys – these toys provide mental stimulation and keep them busy while you are busy as well as files the bird’s beak (not a lot). Toys need to be switched out bi-weekly (even weekly), your parrot will shred them so their may not be much left but constantly switching out toys increase mental stimulation and sometimes when you take a toy away and give it back later it becomes much more interesting to you parrot.
Food Dishes – Stainless steel; this keeps biofilm growth in your dishes to a minimum which keeps your birds healthy. Biofilm; learn more about biofilm here: Toxic Parrot Food Dishes – BioFilm – Optimal Avian
Substrate – all cages should have grates at the bottom; the last thing you want your bird doing is playing at the bottom of their cage in their waste, they can get a lot of different illnesses from their waste. Underneath their grate your best options are plain paper – butcher paper is a commonly used option or paper towels. You can use newspapers as long as your bird cannot reach down through the grate and chew on the paper because the ink from the paper can poison them. Another option is the all natural paper bedding pet stores sell for rodents.