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yea im not gunna (hopefully) well i will be up early(early for school holidays anyways) in the morning to check fingers crossed we dont see him again

i spose il give it a crack lets see what are we up to 78

Yea GB that is a good(no wait a great) idea i didnt think of that i will see if it is hangin around tomorro if so i will give them a call. But the bird netting would be good to have too.

Yea i will wait and see. I am kinda worried as well because i have a 2 day old chick in the nest and i dont want the parents to become to scared and abandon the chick or just throw it out cause they are scared.

I dont know how i am goin to hang it but because the top of the patio is gyprocked and the total perimeter of the patio is like 15m x 8m. I will go out and buy some of that tomorro. hopefully it wont be to expensive. sorry guys its not the avairy its my breeding cages they are made in a block of 6 out of melamine and have only one side with wire.

okay rightio its a bit hard to do that but cause its on my patio. Where can i get this netting from??

I just got home and found out that my parents and brother scared a hawk away today.It was hangin on the front of my cages and 20 minutes after they scared it away it was back it sits on the gutter for 10 minutes then on top of the cage for about 5 then latchs onto the front of the cage(im guesin to try and bite its way through the wire). im getting really worried it will be able to bite through the wire and massacre my birds. Does anyone know how i can get it to go away?? im goin to be putting up old CDs outside tomorro morning.

Hey GB To start with i wouldnt call them runners because they do have their flight feathers. I also have a bird that is like yours i thought i might just give it a go the first egg is due to hatch tomorrow i will let you know how the babys go.

What is that in the bottom of the cage???

i use both designs your talkin about i find the ones that slide open from the end are much better as it is harder for them to escape and easier to clean. one way of stopping the birds from opening the lid on the other ones is to put a brick or something along those lines on top of it that is wat i do. that way the lid is way to heavy to open for them.

okay thats everyone i just didn know why that was the case it is a fair reason

Hey im just curious why cant you breed a bush budgie with a "normal" budgie?

Hey cem i divided my cages(pretty much the same size as yours) earlier this year i went down to bunnings and bought some thin (about 2-4 mm thick) wood sheets they may even cut it to size for you if you know your dimensions. The birds will just keep flying into the plastic if they can see throuhg it.

Hey pebblez72 i live in wagga as well my birds cope with the cold fine i breed through winter as it is way to hot to breed in summer i think some temps got to about -5c last year sometimes i just cover my cages up at night p.s. do you have a cock bird that is ready to breed that you will be willing to sell i need 1 pls pm me

I breed through winter i just cover the cages at night sometimes the temp drops to like -5 nd i havent had any deaths yet and i know a lot of breeders that breed through winter.

So what is everyones opinion of breeding them when they are 9 or 10 months old? I am just curious im still sorta new to the breeding thing my first season was last year.

I think that cage is fine pearce if your brirds are tame and you let them out at least 4 times a week for at least 45 mins each time. I try to let my indoor birds out once a day at least(sometimes they get let out twice and on weekends they have the cage door open all day). I keep 2 of my indoor birds in a cage about that size they love it and our cockatiell lives in a cage about the same size just taller and he doesn't mind. The only problem would be if you wanted to breed them in it then it wouldn't be big enough.

Daz didnt you build a new one that is alot bigger and better???? Can you come to wagga and build me one like that pls

Dave sherbet looks the exact same as one of my first birds but the only difference is mine is a male no a female he is my favourite bird

I don't give them grit but I have been told that zeolite is a good substitute AND that it's recyclable, all you have to do is wash it! I use old plastic signs dad had nd then i just scrape the droppings off. I also put my seed dispensers into a chinese container (obviously without the lid) this makes it super easy to clean and it give them something to stand on when they eat it works really well for me.

the aviary would be bout 6metresx5metres nd the flights bout 2x2

this is the design im probly going to go with it will have a walkwaydown the middle and breeding flights on either side of them and then have the big aviary at the end

yea thanks i probly wouldn't breed anything in there just use it as an avairy to hold my birds in and show off

Oh, okay I was thinking about making a feature out of a mixed aviary with those sorts of birds at our new house. What sort of parrot do you have kaz????

hey i was just wondering if any of these birds will go well in a mixed aviary budgies, cockatiels, princess parrots, Indian ringnecks, grass parrots, regent parrots, Kakariki, galahs cheers