Choosing the right type of birdcage is not always an easy thing, especially if you’ve never owned a cockatiel before. Cocktatiels need some specific things that will allow them to live a happy life. I have provided you with five tips to help you pick the right birdcage for your cockatiel.

1. Appropriate Living Space for Your Cockatiel – When you’re thinking of buying and cockatiel birdcage, it has to have the right amount of space for the bird. The bird has to have plenty of room to stretch and flap its wings. You also need to consider the height of the cages you don’t want your cockatiels tail to drag on the floor or get hung up on anything.

2. Cage Size – When making the decision of the size of caged you need, you need to think about what kind of items you’re going to put in the cage. Having items in your cage such as perches, toys, and such items can take up quite a bit of space, so you need to not clutter it up too much.

3. The Distance Between the Bars – The next thing you need to make sure when buying a cockatiel birdcage is that the bars are close enough together that the cockatiel can’t get its head through. As a standard the spacing shouldn’t be any more than 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch.

4. Bar Layout – Your cockatiel loves to climb so you need to make sure that the cage you buy has bars that run vertically as well as horizontally. Don’t go buying any cage that doesn’t have verticle bars on it.

5. Easy to Clean – One thing that’s really important when you have a birdcage is that it’s easy to clean. This is not only good for you it’s good for the birds health as well. Having a cage with a removable plastic tray on the bottom is a really good idea. Anything that makes the cleaning of the cage easier is a good thing, for you as well as for the bird.

Having these steps should allow you to be a limit to proper decision when choosing which cockatiel birdcage you should buy. Besides these simple tips there are a lot of different shapes and styles of cockatiel birdcages and in the end it will boil down to what you like, and what you can afford.