My New Avairy

[timbo.1 0]

recently we moved a new house and my landlord who is also my boss, said i can wire up the woodshed for my birds, already have 4 avairies, so i have and now its fnished.

 

 

my budgies are now in and started to breed and will post photos of finished avairy as soon as i take some photos

[birdluv 0]

can hardly wait to see the finished aviaries

[Guest BUZZBEE]

How fun! i look forward to seeing the progress and finished product.

[timbo.1 0]

this is the finished avairy, wouldn't have thought it was a woodshed!

 

 

 

 

it's approx. 3m wide x 3m deep x 2.5m high. at the moment there are 19 budgies in here ,having a ball.

the birds have a pick of nestboxes or hollow logs, with a large branch from a apple tree on the floor and there are also a couple of black-belly zebra finches, a couple of fawn jave sparrows. my 4 king quails, 1 male 3 female (lucky boy!) just love scratching around the barked and sawdust ground.

[timbo.1 0]

just some photos of my birds in their new home

 

male- yf2 cinnamon grey female- yf2 grey

 

 

not sure of the colour of him

 

 

the female on the left is one of my babies from last year

 

mum-white fallow

 

dad-dilute green

 

their first eggs :ausb:

havent bred any budgies in the past 12 months

 

 

 

 

[**KAZ** 0]

What have you got covering the gap up at the roofline Timbo ?

[timbo.1 0]

What have you got covering the gap up at the roofline Timbo ?

the gaps are covered by wire mesh. i had to make the avairy escape proof for my zebra finchs. took my ages to look for all the small holes and when i did release the birds i found another small gap but now there aren' any gaps left.

[**KAZ** 0]

Yep. Finches can get through tiny gaps. One of our newly fledged finches, came out of the nest, landed on the wire, squeezed through a gap and flew straight into our dogs waiting mouth !! I was devastated !! :ausb:

[Norm 0]

Didn’t take them long to settle in Timbo. Good luck.

[Elly 0]

you have finches and breeding budgies together in the same aviary?

[timbo.1 0]

you have finches and breeding budgies together in the same aviary?

 

they dont harrass each other and the finches dont enter the boxes. the budgies are now laying eggs but the finches are just paired up. possibly due to the large size of the avairy and having a huge branch on the floor. i'm even thinking about getting a pair of doves for the avairy. i have 2 seed hoppers and 2 water hoppers and 2 fruit hooks in there

[Elly 0]

OH okay...because I have heard never to house budgies with anything other then budgies because breeding or not they can become harassing especially when you colony breed. Good Luck and keep up updated.

[Paulh29 0]

OH okay...because I have heard never to house budgies with anything other then budgies because breeding or not they can become harassing especially when you colony breed. Good Luck and keep up updated.

 

Same here...I was told never to house hooked beak birds (ie: budgies) with pointed beak birds (such as cannaries & finches).......because if they do happen to fight....pointed beak birds can inflict high damage.....through the very nature of their beaks...

[timbo.1 0]

OH okay...because I have heard never to house budgies with anything other then budgies because breeding or not they can become harassing especially when you colony breed. Good Luck and keep up updated.

 

I heard that too nut i introduced the birds at the same time so there was no territories claimed. My mum's ex had budgies, finches, quail, cockatiels and red-rumped parrots all in a smaller avairy than mine and they all bred except the cockatiels the male was infertile. I got my red-rump's in their own avairy and i thought about moving my bourkes in with the budgies but she's gone to nest.

[macka 0]

Timbo, the other problem I have noticed is the nests are on 2 levels.There will be

a lot of push & shove as they will want to nest in the top row. :yelling:

[Norm 0]

In my opinion Budgies are the aggressors, I think it’s a risk mixing anything else with them. I know a lot of people on here do, especially in big aviaries & maybe that works. I have a pair of Cockatiels in most of my aviaries with my Budgies & there haven’t been many problems, but they do have squabbles & it seems to balance out, as the Cockatiels have size over the Budgie, but it’s the Budgies, which have the confidence & aggression, so far no big problems. I used to keep King Quails, but have thought it too big a risk with Budgies, but I read where some have them. I tried Quails some years ago with African Lover Birds [i know that’s a different story] they are very aggressive, it worked for quite awhile, but one day I found all the Quails chewed up. In my opinion Budgies & Java Sparrows are two of the most aggressive birds.

[**KAZ** 0]

My husband has mixed species in his aviary....Princess parrots, Barraband Parrots, canaries, quails and finches. But his aviary is HUGE and planted out for hidey spaces. I only have budgies in my aviaries. I dont want to risk any forms of aggression with my budgies. I think, once you have breeding in the equasion, things can get territorial.

My concern with your nestboxes has to be the shelf situation and how close they are. With all that space, I would have attached them drilled into the walls and posts, a LOT FURTHER apart than you have. I once bred that way...colony style in a very large aviary ( 3 times the space you have ) but I made sure I was watching all day, and the nestboxes were much further apart than yours.

All that aside, I think the conversion is a great idea and I wish you luck with your birds.

Edited August 4, 2007 by **KAZ**

[Bea 0]

The aviary looks great!! I would love to have a big shed to convert to an aviary. You did a great job!

[Riebie 0]

You have some really gorgeous birds there!!! I love your green 'don't know' Very pretty!

[Paulh29 0]

Looking great timbo1...you have a nice set up.

[timbo.1 0]

just thought i'd put some more pics on here

 

these two give me beautiful pieds. they had an egg but another bird took over their box so their egg is being fostered. they have a new box. they stole 1 themselves, lucky this box was empty

 

she has 1 egg paired up with a yf2 blue spangle

 

bred her last year

 

5 + 1 fostered egg.

 

parents of the above eggs. he just finished feeding her

[splat 0]

Great job with your new Avairy Timbo, Your birds are lovely too

[timbo.1 0]

bad news the mum of the six eggs was killed today after laying another egg my neighbour is fostering 2 eggs for me. the attacker and partner is now in a breeding cage on their own. the picture of the albino and yellow danish peid have lost all avairy privilages. she might disappear after she replaces the young and mum i lost

Edited February 25, 2010 by KAZ

[timbo.1 0]

yesterday i went door to check on my two eggs that i fostered out and the mum has accepted them. i now have eggs to my yf2 grey pair, eggs with my yf2 grey danish,and eggs with my fallow so all is happening again. i replaced the albino that died with a yf2 cobalt danish. the female that attacked and caused the lose of the first lot of eggs is in a small avairy with a yf2 skyblue spangle and i'm hoping to get a yf2 albino. will put new pics on soon when i have a day free (hopefully sunday)

[birdluv 0]

l'm sorry for your loss

l'm glad that the hen accepted the eggs.