My New Aviary

[budgie-babe 0]

hi all i just got a new avairy it is 2m by 2m and 2 m high it is going to have a cement boundry so mice and rats cant dig in a natural floor with natural australian grasses and there will be quails in the bottom hopefuly will breed and it will have 2 to three pairs of budgies in it just wonderin bout what yous all think

[budgie-babe 0]

i have a natural floor avairy and i was just wonderin what are the best plants/grasses for avairys?

[Bec Sta 0]

I think that sounds fantastic! You'll have to post some pics when it's completed .

 

The only thing, with the 'natural floor', dirt can be a haven for bacteria, especially if it gets damp and mixed with urine & faeces.

Edited February 5, 2008 by Bec Sta

[timbo.1 0]

go with natives

[**KAZ** 0]

Roof section or open to the sky ?

 

You have to know that ANYTHING that you have planted in a budgies aviary will last no time at all. We had fully planted out aviaries and in a very short space of time...what the budgies didnt eat was destroyed.

Soil floor aviaries also reinfect birds with worms and they can catch coccidiosis when the floors are wet.

 

To make plants grow you need rain and sunlight from above , and that in turn means wild bird droppings will get in too causing health issues.

While plants are nice...they arent practical with birds. You can grow potted plants and rotate them in and out of the aviary as the birds almost kill them, and you try and bring them back to life before they go back in there. Not much plant-wise survives budgie attacks.

 

Edited February 5, 2008 by KAZ

[*libby* 0]

Well said bec, although with only a concrete barrier around won't keep mice out... I had a small aviary once which was double wired with the 1cm x 1cm wire(crossing over the middle of the other set of wire) and mice still got in... Not a whole lot you can do Pics when you can would be good to see :hap:

[Little one 0]

Sounds great! .

[budgie-babe 0]

the roof is covered and the plants i have with them are fine they have been in there for ages so far there fine i have to take pics we are going to hopefuly make a very large avairy for them.