Thought I would show everyone my aviaries that my partner built for me. As it get very hot up here I was wondering how I could provide some shade. Anyone got any ideas??http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g212/jen.../parrots010.jpg

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Edited September 17, 200618 yr by daz

I would add more brush in there that is bird friendly, trees in a pot?

Maybe extend some poles above the whole lot and stretch some shadecloth over it ? Install a sprinkler hose system too to cool down the metal roof and to mist the budgies on a hot day. Could be as simple as a couple of soaker hoses...the cheap green kind with holes in them ?

I was just thinking shade cloth over the top of the wire, but with the gap would mean the birds can't chew at it and put holes in it.

Try this idea. Put lengths of furing channels across the roof and lay thatch sheeting on the channels.

The channel being 40mm hiegh will allow air ventilation and will give a bush look to the whole structure.

 

This is what I am thinking of doing with my aviary.

Rethink please Daz Mice LOVE thatch sheeting and breed well in and under it. I am pulling my thatch sheeting out of the aviaries for this very reason.

Rethink please Daz Mice LOVE thatch sheeting and breed well in and under it. I am pulling my thatch sheeting out of the aviaries for this very reason.

Daz has rethought the idea...

 

Is that right karen I didn't know. Well i'll give that idea a miss.

Nice clean setup you have there, excellent view!. Love the rosellas- they are the next addition to the family!