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Thank you for replying Finnie, much appreciated. Your information was very helpful, as were the links you posted. Cheers, Andrew

G'day. Found this forum while looking for information & decided to join to ask you good people for some advice. I need some advice about nesting boxes because I'm getting conflicting information from different people in town. I'm a member of my towns' Men's Shed & I was elected to make budgie nesting boxes that we sell, along with other items we make, at one of the local shops. They are made out of 19mm pine. I have been making these for a while & the only directions I was given to start with, was to make a box with an opening lid on top. Neither the person who elected me to make them, or myself, have ever had anything to do with budgies, so I had to guesstimate the size to make them. After reading some posts in this forum, I now see what I make is a bit too small. okay, I now have a good idea of what size to make them, so that part is fixed. I was also directed to make single, double & triple boxes, & it's the last two of these where the conflicting information comes in that I need your advice on. A single box is easy, one nest one bird. The way I make the doubles & triples, which is the way I was told to make them, is like this. Double box: An oblong box twice the width of the single with 2 entry holes each with perch, 2 hollows & a dividing wall between them. The dividing wall is 8mm thick lining board. Triple box is triple the width of the single with 3 entry holes with perches, 3 hollows & 2 dividing walls to make 3 compartments. okay, so the person who first told me to make them is happy with this, but one of the other members (who has a budgie) says it's wrong & I should make the doubles & triples like a 2 or 3 story building. One compartment above the other & not side by side. Now I'm being told by someone else in town (who also has budgies) that I should NOT be making the doubles & triples because the birds won't be happy being right next to another bird, even though there's a dividing wall between them. He says only one bird will occupy a double, & only the 2 end compartments will be occupied in the triple, leaving the middle compartment unoccupied. So what's the deal here, as I'm really confused now. Are the double & triple boxes the right thing to make or not. Any advice you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Andrew.