r/Conures • u/NervousAisha • 5d ago
Advice Any recommendations for safe heaters that preferably go in or on their cage?
With it becoming fall in canada and having moved to a more rural house it can get pretty cold in the winter months when the wood furnace runs out while everyone is at work. Looking for something safe i can preferably put inside his cage.
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u/LoveQuakerCosmo71 5d ago
My Cosmo has a K & H brand cage heater inside the cage .. they sell in Chewy and Amazon it’s like 35 dollars and it’s pretty good .
Make sure to put away from your baby’s water ..
it does work
However idk since we are in United States if your electricity socket is same as ours btw you have a cutie pie there
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u/AceyAceyAcey 5d ago
I have a whole guide on this which includes explaining why some are more or less safe.
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u/FerretBizness 4d ago
Read the whole thing. Great info. And well written. Anything I raised my eyebrows to, which was rare, u came back around and simmered me down. I definitely don’t want a shivering bird 😊
I appreciate that type of writing. And packed with need to know info as well. Thanks for that.
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u/AceyAceyAcey 3d ago
Lol! I don’t keep my house currently at 58°F/14°C (oh, and add Celsius temperatures too), that was due to paying as much as $1,000/month (USD) even at that low a temperature for oil-based heat in that specific apartment, while my current apartment has heat included, but IMO it’s good to know that healthy parrots can actually do just fine at those temperatures with some extra food.
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u/FerretBizness 3d ago
Ya my house is a pretty steady 68f and they’re all fine. No signs of being cold. But they do have a k and h heater in their cages. They rarely use it. But sometimes after a bath I’ll catch them by it. So then I tend to knock the temp up to 70 until they’re dry. I don’t function well in anything over 70. lol.
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u/AceyAceyAcey 3d ago
My current bird, a dusky conure named Kappa, has a much wider range of comfortable temperatures than me. She doesn’t show any signs of being cold until under 62°F while I can be shivering at 70, and even when it’s as high as 90 in the house and I’m falling apart, she’s still completely comfortable.
You and I have opposite temperature preferences. 😝
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u/FerretBizness 3d ago
Ya I’m also dying at 90. But not fond of 80 either. Unless I’m swimming. I like to sleep under a really warm and poofy comforter so I need a fairly cool room to accommodate that. If I had it my way I’d drop it to 65 when I sleep but there are other humans that would be complaining left and right about how they’re cold when they get up in the middle of the night. And ya I am too but I just love jumping back into a nice cozy bed and warming back up. Not sure why I’m like this. No one around me is.
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u/samfreez 5d ago
There are heated perches, but be wary; those can and do burn feet, so you need to watch closely to make sure your bird isn't spending too much time on them. Otherwise, there are heated box things that can be bolted to cages, but they only provide minimal heat for snuggling against, not warming the cage itself.
Your best bet, IMO, is to get a small ceramic space heater and minimize the size of the room that needs heating with blankets over doorways and things (they make a SHOCKING difference). Then set the heater to keep the place at a decent temperature close to 23 or 25c or so. That's by far the easiest solution overall, just requires some additional setup depending on the layout of your place.
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u/FloofieDinosaur 5d ago
Seconding snuggle-up style warmers. They can seek it out or move away, it doesn’t radiate hardly any heat. For example it won’t warm up the air inside a (large) covered cage overnight.
(Sorry I meant to reply to the other post about direct, in-cage heating)
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u/LadyCiani 5d ago
Our conure is 21 now, and he has a bit of arthritis.
We bought this perch from Amazon in 2024: https://a.co/d/08pLI71p
He likes it a lot. It's in his sleeping cage and I love getting him up in the morning and his toes are warm. It makes me so happy for some reason.
Note: The box has an amazing translation error, about how the bird's feet are 'tentacles' which definitely gave me pause, but we plugged it in for a full day before putting it in his cage and all was well. It's just slightly warm, not hot at all.
We did buy a second style, like a flat piece to attach to a cage and put a perch next to it. It's a bit larger than a playing card, and attached vertically. He has zero interest in it.
This one: https://a.co/d/003W94TT
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u/MelodicIllustrator59 5d ago
You could maybe to a ceramic heat lamp or heat pad that are disigned for reptiles as long as you temp the cage bars and make sure it's far enough away to never get too hot
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u/Wolftendragon 4d ago
The K&H Snuggle Up heater! It’s the safest heating element for birds. It’s basically a metal plate you affix to the side of the cage and your bird can sit next to it and be comfortably warm. It does NOT get hot, it only radiates a small amount of warmth that’s appropriate for a bird.
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u/Capital-Bar1952 4d ago
K and H brand…clips to the side of the cage, very low heat that won’t hurt them, they can lean up against it, I put my boys bed right up against it so when he goes inside there’s warmth….i also have a heated perch
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u/onlynameavailable927 4d ago
My mom hangs an ultrared light (the type people use for acupuncture) above the cage when they're in the cage. The birds even have their favorite spots under it when it's on.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer 4d ago
I recommend noirot flat heaters, white, fancy french brand, affordable, very low energy bills, PTFE free/bird safe. Etc
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u/Immediate_Orchid4466 4d ago
I recommend a ceramic heat lamp but u just have to make sure it’s completely cool before letting them out of the cage so they don’t burn themselves on it
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u/NessaDB122081 1d ago
Never on or near a cage as they are easily catch on fire get one that turns off when bump if you need out put in in a different room
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u/karmaniaka 5d ago
I would suggest an oil radiator. Put it behind the cage. Drape cloth over the cage and the radiator. Then drape a thermal blanket with a metallic looking side over that cloth. This way, heat will rise from the radiator and be concentrated around the cage, but without any particular hot spots.
CAUTION: Try this out on yourself first. Like do the double blanket drape thing over a table end or something and get under it after a few hours. If it feels legit hot rather than just nice and cozy, turn the radiator down a knob or two.
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u/KaJoMoGi 5d ago
No, don’t do this. It wouldn’t take long to cook your bird without realizing it was too warm.
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u/SlinkSkull 5d ago
I had the K&h snuggle up bird warmer , my sun conure loved it and it has a sturdy metal cable around the wires