Sleeping...where?

[ellen7]

I just posted a few questions in the canary forum because I'm thinking about either a canary or a pair of Societies. My question here is about Societies and their daily sleep/bed time.

From what others have told me on my posts about Societies, they like to mate and breed because they are social birds Totally makes sense to me. The pet store has societies and if I decide on them over the female canary, and since they are so difficult to sex, I just might come home with a female/male pair. I don't want eggs though and members here have suggested taking the nest out even though it is possible for the female to lay in seed cups, etc.

Now this is where I feel pretty silly asking this but without a nest, where do they sleep comfortably? Do they just sleep standing up on perches? Like I said, I feel pretty silly asking these type of questions...lol.

[lovezebs]

ellen7

Societies, can sleep on perches, like any other birds. Some people offer a little shelf in the cage corner where they can pile up and snooze together.

Most burds don't need nests to sleep in.

[Barbara]

ellen7 first no question is silly and yes they just stand if you watch them the squat down on the perch and seem comfortable enough I have six societies that sleep on the highest perch so close together one or two of them always pop up and are sleeping on top of another,Don't know that much about canaries but I have a male and they are the same,hard to tell male from female,but I think they do better alone where if your cage is big enough society the more the merrier.have fun deciding

[lem2bert]

ellen7

I just purchased my first society and he has found a perch he likes to sleep in somewhere at the top of his cage inside some artificial greens. After it gets dark in the room I go in and make sure everyone is on a perch but I cannot see the society, but I know he is up there somewhere.

[ellen7]

Thanks! It was just something I was wondering about since I see so many nests in cages.

[Sojourner]

My guys mostly sleep down on the floor of the cage - it is a habit they got into because poor Bambi couldn't really fly when I first got him and he couldn't get up to the upper perches very easily - and didn't feel safe once he got there. He'd been kept in a teensy cage for months and lost muscle and strength.

He's fine now and they do sometimes sleep up on a perch now, but they still mostly sleep in the bottom of the cage.