Place its cage in a draft-free area of a room which receives plenty of indirect sunshine. However, if your family room is unusually noisy, or if you have small children who frequent the room without adult supervision, select another room for your bird's home. So provide perches of different thicknesses for good foot health. A good choice is natural branches of hard, safe woods like manzanita and ribbonwood, which are available from many pet shops. Never use sand-paper covered perches, because they can severely damage birds' feet.
Good cage keeping One of the keys to a healthy bird is good cage keeping.
Replace this lining every day. Then, also on a daily basis, wash your bird's food and water bowls in hot, sudsy water and rinse them thoroughly in hot water. Dry the food dish completely before you place new food in it, because damp food quickly breeds life-threatening molds and bacteria. Then you need to clean the rest of the cage. If it's relatively small, you may want to place the whole thing in the bath tub and wash the plastic parts in the chlorine solution, then rinse thoroughly in warm water.