Hey all,

 

I am not sure if this is the right place to be posting this question but yeah. I have had my aviary on a dirt floor since I have had budgies which is a couple of years, just recently my budgies came down with a disease of coccidiosis ( I think thats the name ) and I lost a few of my budgies. I am now planing on putting in a concrete floor so that the problem never arises again. i was planing on having a drain in the center of the cage so that I could just wash the avairy out with a hose but a friend that has a drain has told me that his drains have been clogged by the seed so what do others have in there aviary and could you please help me out with some ideas to be able to clean it?

 

Thanks

If your drain is a good size100mm or so there would be no cloging you could have like a plug and tale it out when you hose it out and refit it when done so you would have an open pipe there fore no clogging

If you can sweep up most of the seed husk before you hose out it should be okay. ( If your aviary is big enough for that) I do mine every weekend and dispose of husks I scrape and sweep out then hose if it's needed.

I do the same as Robyn.

I scrape and sweep my concrete floor twice a week and hose it out if it gets really mucky in wet weather.

No need for a drain if you have a very slight slope on your slab...works well for me.

 

No need for a drain if you have a very slight slope on your slab...works well for me.

 

This is what I was thinking, too. If you had a drain, wouldn't that be an inlet for mice or snakes to find their way in? Well, if you kept it plugged like Dillster suggested, when you weren't hosing it down, then I guess they wouldn't, would they?

 

Don't forget, that even with a concrete floor, you birds can still get coccidiosis in wet weather. But I think the concrete would be easier to clean, to minimize the danger.