Penn-Plax Bird Life Wooden Playpen – Large

Holds up well easy to assemble with my daughter. Some how we got it a little wet and the red color bled and ran but still holding up great

The thickness of the activity centre is good mind you the sturdiness of the product is not so great used glue gun to put it together the glue what they include is useless but my budgie loves it I purchased the medium size center the small would have been to small

Incredibly easy to put together but note it takes time for glue to dry. It is cheaply made with just glue holding most of it together and SMALL, don’t know why they say large, so it should only be used for small birds like it says. Will have to buy your own glue because their bottle was so hard to squeeze I couldn’t get any glue out. The bottom ‘orange’ dowel didn’t fit all the way across and wasn’t thick enough so had to use lots of glue to make sure it stayed in; per their TIP put a heavy object on one end to make sure it stayed down while glue was drying. Don’t know why they don’t make the dowel thicker, longer and the slots deeper so that it stays in better. Didn’t level out the bottom so it wobbles. I solved this by gluing non-slip shelf liner to it. Wish I could say my bird likes it but she hasn’t yet tried to play with it-she’s still young so hopefully she will. It is cheap priced, but since I had to go out and buy more stuff to make it work I feel like I should get some money back(maybe that’s why it was discounted 🙂 No way would I even consider paying $43.+ as it’s originally listed. I still recommend it for parakeets, not sure about cockatiels, compared to other similar playgrounds if your bird loves to play with this type of stuff outside of the cage.

Once I received the set and started to put it together, I realised that 1 part H which was the bottom horizontal dowel was missing. For some reason I received 2 Perch dowels instead of 1 (blue in photo), also was missing part E the bell dowel. Really disappointed.

I had hoped I could put this in my bird’s cage, and he could use it both in and out of the cage. But it’s really too big (got the x-large size) to put in the cage. That’s okay–he’ll use it when he’s out. We’ll likely put it in the bathroom and let him use it for shower time. I have a pineapple conure, and the x-large size is really perfect for him. I think the x-large would work for conures, ringnecks, caiques, quakers, and other similarly sized birds. It might be a bit too big for cockateils and it’s way too big for budgies and parrotlets.

It was super easy to put together, fits securely, comes with the glue and everything you need to assemble.

Conner the Conure was terrified of it at first, flew off every time we’d sit him on it, but soon, he ventured a peck here and a waddle-waddle there, and now he’ll even sit o the swing. I think he’ll love it in no time. The swing and ladders move and hang from little hooks, so you can switch them out, change their sides, etc. Bright, colorful, easy to assemble, sturdy when put together right. I think all in all, it was a good purchase and at a decent price.

Update: The colors tend to run when they are cleaned with water, so you want to mostly dry wipe to clean this play toy. It’s not enough of a concern/problem that it warrants a downrating in stars though, because Conner the Conure absolutely loves his toy now. Whenever he is out and we’re in the kitchen area, we put him on his play toy on the counter and he can be with us. I like it and the little red cup/dish it comes with–while we’re cooking, I’ll slice some veggies and put them in his little cup. He likes the rope perch and he’ll slide the shiny plastic wavy rings. If I had one negative, it would be that the colors run if you use water to clean it. One other slight negative is that the swing and ladder don’t like to stay ‘hooked’ and sometimes will fall off when moving the play gym. They are strong and secure when the toy is still, so it’s not a danger to the bird or anything but I knocking the swing off and having to put it back on when I move it. This was definitely worth the price for a play area for a small to medium-sized bird when he’s out of his cage.