Easy-Clean Bird Cages With Pull-Out Trays for Living Rooms

Tall white bird cage with colorful birds and storage shelf

A bird cage that cleans quickly in a living room needs three things. A tray that slides out from the base, so the bird never has to be lifted out. Feeding doors beside the dishes, so the main door stays shut at top-ups. A main door wide and tall enough for a hand and a cloth to reach the cage floor. Before any of that, three things decide whether a cage suits the bird and the room at all.

Bar spacing: The gap decides which bird the cage suits, so measure it against the bird rather than the space you have for the cage.
Cage size: For a bird that spends most of its time in the cage, the RSPCA asks for at least twice its wingspan in height, width and depth. For a bird that is mostly out, one and a half times.^[5]
Space behind it: A cage on wheels can come away from the wall, so the floor and skirting behind it stay reachable.

Why Is Cleaning a Living-Room Bird Cage Harder Than It Should Be?

A budgie kept beside the sofa needs its dishes topped up most days and its tray emptied regularly. In a living room, that happens in full view, with furniture close by. Where the only way in is the main door, each refill means opening the cage and giving the bird a route out into the room. Where the tray has to be lifted clear, a two-minute job turns into a furniture-moving one.

None of this is solved by a bigger cage. It is solved by where the openings are.

What Should You Look For in an Easy-Clean Bird Cage?

Five checks separate a cage that cleans quickly from one that does not.

Check	What to look for on the listing	Why it matters
Tray	Its length, width and depth	A tray matching the cage floor catches everything that falls, and the depth sets how much it holds
Bottom net or grate	A net or grate between the bird and the tray	It keeps the bird off whatever has fallen through
Feeding access	Sliding doors, or small doors beside the dishes	Top-ups happen without opening the main door
Main door	Both the width and the height	The opening has to admit a hand, a cloth and a food dish
Bar spacing	The gap in centimetres	Each species group has its own range, so the gap decides which bird the cage suits.^[4]

Which Bird Cages Have Pull-Out Trays and Separate Feeding Doors?

A pull-out tray cage has a base tray on runners, so the floor can be cleared from outside. The PawHut range includes three, each with a different tray and door layout.^[4]

The cage has to suit the bird first. These figures are minimums rather than targets.

Species group	Minimum size, W x D x H (cm)	Bar spacing (cm)
Budgies and parakeets	45 x 35 x 45	1.0 to 1.5
Finches and canaries	60 x 40 x 45	0.8 to 1.2
Cockatiels and lovebirds	70 x 45 x 70	1.5 to 2.0

Note: the minimums run width, depth and height, while the listings run length, width and height. Each cage’s length is read as its width here, since the length is the frontage.

Three PawHut Cages Compared

The three differ most on the tray. One covers its whole cage floor, one splits into two, and one covers nearly all of a wider base.

Feature	Tall cage with stand^[1]	Double cage with divider^[2]	Rolling stand cage^[3]
Slide-out tray (cm)	75 x 45, 3 deep	Two, 45.5 x 43.5, depth not stated	74 x 50, 3 deep
Bottom net or grate	None listed	Bottom grate, removable middle grate	None listed
Smaller doors (cm)	Eight, 8.5 x 13.5	Four sliding, size not stated	Four side, 10.2 x 10
Main doors, W x H (cm)	Two, 23 x 26	Two front 18 x 23, two side 13 x 12	Two, 24.5 x 21
Wheels	Four, two braked	Four, two braked	Four, no brakes listed
Bar spacing (cm)	1	1.25	1.5
Price	£79.99	£83.99	£79.99

Note: Prices are accurate at the time of writing but may change. Please check the live product listings for the latest prices and details.

PawHut Bird Cage With Stand, Toys and Accessories^[1]

Orange bird perched inside white cage with pull-out tray

The tall cage with stand is the only one of the three publishing an inside measurement, 75 x 45 x 86 cm on 1 cm gaps. Its tray matches that floor exactly at 75 x 45 cm and 3 cm deep, and sits 46.5 cm up on its stand rather than at floor level.

Features: Steel, 13 kg, 79 x 49 x 133 cm overall, with eight small doors at 8.5 x 13.5 cm and two large doors at 23 x 26 cm. Four wheels with brakes on two of them, and a shelf 79 x 49 cm sitting 23 cm off the ground. The package lists three wood perches, four food containers and four bird toys.
Best suited to: A living room where most top-ups need to happen without opening a large door.
Pros: Eight small doors, twice the count on either other cage, and the supplied food containers at 8 x 7.5 x 5 cm pass through one of them. Its main openings are the tallest of the three at 26 cm.
Con: Nothing sits between the bird and the tray, so the bird stands on the same surface its droppings land on.
Choose another option if: You keep two birds that need separating (PawHut Large Bird Cage With Divider^[2]), or want the widest front opening (PawHut Rolling Stand Budgie Cage^[3]).

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PawHut Large Bird Cage With Divider and Slide Tray^[2]

The double cage is 95 x 45.5 x 102 cm overall and splits into two halves of 47 x 45.5 x 45 cm, each with its own tray and feeding doors, so two budgies can live side by side without sharing a feeding point. Pulling the middle grate out turns them into one 95 cm space.

Features: Metal, steel, wood and plastic, 17 kg, 1.25 cm bar spacing, with two metal trays at 45.5 x 43.5 cm, four sliding feeding doors, two front doors at 18 x 23 cm and two side doors at 13 x 12 cm. Four wheels, two of them braked, above a bottom shelf 95 x 45.5 cm standing 17 cm high. The package lists four wood perches at 47 cm long, four food containers and the two trays.
Best suited to: Two budgies that need separating, each bird’s tray and dishes reached from its own side.
Pros: A bottom grate above the trays, the only one of the three cages to list one. It also gives eight ways in across the two halves, and its shelf runs the full 95 x 45.5 cm width of the cage.
Con: Two trays mean two pulls at each clean, so the routine takes a step longer than it needs to.
Choose another option if: You keep finches or canaries, or want the tallest main opening (PawHut Bird Cage With Stand^[1]).

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PawHut Rolling Stand Budgie Cage With Slide-Out Tray^[3]

Bird cage with removable cleaning tray and wire floor

The rolling stand cage puts a 78 x 52 x 95 cm cage body on a wheeled stand, 132 cm tall overall, with a storage shelf underneath. Its tray is the widest here at 74 x 50 cm and 3 cm deep, so more of what falls lands in the tray rather than on the base around it.

Features: Steel and wood, 13.5 kg, 1.5 cm bar spacing, with four side food doors at 10.2 x 10 cm and two front doors at 24.5 x 21 cm. Four wheels above a storage shelf rated to 10 kg. The package lists four wooden perches and four food containers.
Best suited to: A budgie, where a wide front opening matters more than the narrowest gaps.
Pros: The widest front opening of the three at 24.5 cm, four side food doors wider across than the tall cage’s 8.5 cm, and four wooden perches rather than three.
Con: No brakes are listed on its wheels, so the cage can shift as the tray is pulled out.
Choose another option if: You need 1 cm gaps for a finch or canary (PawHut Bird Cage With Stand^[1]), or want a grate above the tray (PawHut Large Bird Cage With Divider^[2]).

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How to Choose an Easy-Clean Bird Cage

Start with the bird, then the openings, then the wall it will stand against.

For the quickest daily clean, the tall cage with stand: Its tray is the only one matching its cage floor, and eight small doors is twice the count on either other cage.^[1]
For a finch or canary, the tall cage again: At 1 cm its gaps are the only ones inside the 0.8 to 1.2 cm range.^[4]
For two budgies kept apart, the double cage. Each half has its own tray and feeding doors, and a grate holds both birds clear of what falls.^[2]
For the widest reach into the cage, the rolling stand cage. Its front doors are 24.5 cm across and its tray 74 x 50 cm, both the widest here.^[3]
For a narrow wall space, not the double cage. At 95 cm across it is 16 cm wider than the tall cage and 17 cm wider than the rolling stand cage.
For a cockatiel or lovebird, look elsewhere: The one cage with wide enough gaps is sold for smaller birds.

No single feature makes a cage easy to clean. The tray, the feeding doors and the main door work together, and the gaps have to suit the bird before any of it matters.

FAQs

1. How long should a bird be out of its cage each day?

At least six hours outside the cage, according to the RSPCA, with room to fly freely and safely indoors. An indoor cage suits short spells during the day or a night’s sleep rather than all-day housing.^[5] A pull-out tray lets the cage be cleared while the bird is out of it.

2. Can two budgies live in the same cage?

Yes. Budgerigars are among the species the RSPCA says can be kept in groups, since they breed in colonies in the wild. Beyond two birds, the cage has to get bigger, by 5 per cent for each additional bird weighing under 50 g.^[5]

3. Do budgies need more than one perch?

Yes. The RSPCA advises enough perches for every bird in the cage to perch at the same time, and a range of thicknesses, which helps prevent the foot infection bumblefoot.^[5]

4. What should a bird cage be made of?

The Royal Veterinary College advises a non-toxic, zinc-free material, and notes that zinc poisoning is increasingly seen in captive birds.^[6] That makes the material worth checking before buying, since a bird in a cage is in contact with the bars all day and many birds chew at them.