is metal exercise pen with epoxy coating safe?

[renaelock]

for rabbits – I’d get the typical zinc with no coating but I have birds and I can’t predict that they will never end up perched or climbing on the bunnies exercise pen.  Anyone have experience with the metal pens with the epoxy coating on them – if the rabbit chews on it, does the coating come off?

[KatnipCrzy]

I think all dog cages and x-pens have some type of coating or treatment whether they are “gold” or “black”.  I have used both- the dog crate I used was black- and the coating will come off if a rabbit chews at it enough- but that is the same with just about any commercial rabbit cage or colored NIC cubes.

I think you are safe to use either- but if your rabbit likes to chew at the cage or pen just try to redirect with other chewing items like cardboard, phone books or apple sticks, etc.

The xpens I have now are the gold colored and when I first put the boys side by side there was a bit of marking going on and it did discolor the bottom rim of the xpen where the pee puddled around it- but it does not seem to have “damaged” it.

[KatnipCrzy]

I should have added- that I have birds also and have caught my Red Bellied perched on the xpen- (meaning time to get the wings trimmed)- but it would really take a lot of work and a lot of chewing to get any of the epozy coating off- and my parrot has never tried to chew on the pens on the cage- he has just climbed them or flown to them.

[wiseleyd]

I agree with all of the above. I have an epoxy coated ex pen and dog crate for my bunny and my black headed caique has flown to it and has not been able to chew it. My bunny prefers hay and greens for his chewing pleasure.

[renaelock]

Thank you guys! I am going to be getting an epoxy pen…KatnipCrzy one of my birds is a red bellied too! I also have a sun conure and a mexican green conure.

[Monkeybun]

I want a conure… I’ll wait til i have a house tho, 2 buns are enough for now lol.

[KatnipCrzy]

renaelock-  Red Bellied Parrots are such awesome little parrots- mine is such a clown.  I got him when he was already 2 years old and prefered women- so my husband is wary/scared of him.  But he adores me and will sometimes try to court me with his courting dance but the second my husband walks into the room he will stop.  The only way my husband has heard it or seen it was over the phone and once I videoed a short section.  If he gets too amorous  he gets put back on the cage though!

 

[renaelock]

KatnipCrzy – I got my rb when he was about 4. I’ve only had him about 5 months but he has come a long way and I am finally started to see more of his personality. My rb prefers men, which the owner lied to me about. But we are taking it day by day and he is doing really well. He LOVES my dad when he visits!

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