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Is 5/8" bar spacing big my birdies breeder says it might be and I don't want to hurt my new baby!!

5/8 might be find for the aratinga conures, but anything smaller you might want smaller bar spacing.

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http://www.geocities.com/conures123/Housing.html

Thank you MFids they say 3/4" isn't this bigger than 5/8" I am not good at measurements and don't have a tape measure handy!!

It's easy to convert most fractions... Basically, 4 times what equals 8? 2. So, you do 2/2 x 3/4 (2 times both top and bottom number) and you end up with 6/8's. So yes, 3/4" is bigger than 5/8's.

For the smaller conures I recommend 1/2"... even though they may not be able to get their head through 3/4" bar spacing.... well lets just say that my mitred conures cage bar spacing is wide enough (bout 7/8?) that he can get his entire beak through... right to the front of his eyes... and he always wants out so badly he leans up against the cage bars, hunkers down, and flutters his wings (so to speak). He's done this so many times that theres a small section of feathers on each side of his beak that have been worn away....

Thus, I just recommend the smallest size bar spacing recommended for that particular species, if it's possible to do...

How would this cage be!! 1/2" Bar spacing! It would be only one of them!

Cage size is great, however you may want to make sure that the cages themselves have LARGE doors... I can see that they have one bottom which is nice.. but I'm not sure about the doors... so that's something that you might want to check into.... as large doors makes it easier to clean these flight cages...