I need ideas on how to make a windowless room birdie friendly

[Halo]

We have one room in our house we have been using for storage because it has no windows and we had heard that was not good for birdies. However I saw on here a while back where someone had fixed up their basement for their birds and it looked wonderful.

We still have plenty of room in our "bird" room but the one U2 we were asked to take in suddenly became two (they were going to separate them to different homes but apparently decided they would both be better off here but separated ) so we wanted to get that room ready just in case... otherwise I will have a bird in my kitchen! LOL Not that I mind really... but I have an irrational fear of U2's so I don't think I want to have it in my kitchen were it might mistake me for food and eat me .

I know there is something like full spectrum lighting (or something to that effect) but I don't know where to get it or what kind to get or anything like that. Any help or ideas will be greatly appreciated and Marti will give out free kisses to all

[xafsmom]

You can buy full spectrum lighting, yep. It doesn't beat some time in the sun though. If you can let your birds out for a time each day then you should be ok with regular lighting, I'd think. I'm not really sure, all my rooms have windows except the dunny! LOL

[guest1717171]

the U2 will try and eat you
OM NOM NOM

sorry i gots nooo help but i thought that was funny ;)

[xafsmom]

Nutter! LOL

[Halo]

LOL U2's just aren't my thing after the oversexed one we had here...

It wouldn't be in the room all of the time... we have plenty of play perches and stands in the living room it would be more like a sleeping thing and the door would be open. Someone had once told me that a room with no windows would be bad for a birdie so I wanted to make sure before we spent all the time cleaning it out and taking up the carpet to lay down linoleum in there since the carpet is about 60 years old and there is more missing than actually there LOL.

[Amie]

Haha, love the u2 fear. My hubby has one after my mother rescued one whose owner died. . .and he HATED men. Needless to say, we're not allowed to consider Toos

BUT, my bird loving friend uses her utility room as a Quarantine room. No windows, but she uses lots of full-spectrum light. She does take them out once or twice a week to the aviary alone, but for the 90 day Q-tine, they do VERY well. The plucky ones she takes in have sometimes stopped plucking while in the windowless room. Which doesn't make sense to me, but hey, they were happier!

[Addicted to Tequila]

Halo sweety...

Why are you taking in birds you have a fear of and do not really want?
(I is confuzzled)

[Halo]

Because hubby and the kids love U2's as much as I fear them LOL It's not that I don't like them... I just don't like the one we had here for three weeks because she was not discouraged in her sexual advances which made her a very horrible bird. I know it's not a breed thing, it's an individual thing but after that I swore I would never have another U2 around.

Then again I said I'd never own an Amazon too!

[angelicarboreals]

Amie, I just have to wonder if the birds didn't stop plucking in a windowless room because maybe the view of predators, cars whizzing by, etc. was the reason they started plucking in the first place? Maybe there was something outside that they could see that scared them and that fear was the cause of their plucking. I mean I don't know, but I am taking a guess.

As long as you brought the fids out into an open airy sunny area everyday I don't see how housing them in a windowless room would hurt them. I would definitely provide full spectrum lighting and hang up some bright cheery artwork on the walls to lighten up the room.

[KDK241]

My birds are in a windowless room, also known as my bedroom:( and I kind of like it. They are allowed to be flighted and there are no windows to crash into. I have full spectrum lighting above each cage and I also hav FS bulbs in my light as well. They get brought out into the living room and other areas of the house daily and outside when the wheather allows it. I just make it as bright and cheerful as I can for both me and them!