I'm planning to build a new aviary. And because it gets very cold in winter here, I was thinking about building an outside and inside aviary with a window between them. So the budgies can be in the outside one in summer and when it gets cold I can just open the window and they can fly to the other aviary.

 

Does anybody have a similar aviary?

 

And I'm just wondering, do you think I can somehow teach my budgies to sleep in the inside aviary? It might sound strange - like you teach chickens to sleep in a hen-house.

 

I think it would be great, the budgies would be safely inside for the night.

 

 

What do you think?

hello it sounds like a good idea but i don't think a window will be big enough for the birds to fly in to when its dark i would say cover one half of the aviary and some sort of wing breaker down the centre to kept the cold out a bit or some heating equipment it depends on the temps it gets to

 

 

well thats my 2 cents worth (Laughing out loud)

Thanks for advice. It sounds like a good idea

not totally sure what you mean by a window. with glass? or just a window hole? you could probably put a bamboo type blind that you can roll up & down in the am & pm, that should keep them inside, but im not sure how easy it would be to get them inside. would there be a door too?

with where you are, i would say you would need to add a heat lamp! brrr

I'm not sure how I'm going to build it yet. I'm just getting ideas.

I'll try to draw it later and send it here, it might be better. Because my explanations are not very good

 

Thanks for ideas

Edited October 12, 200618 yr by Zebra

i think you would find it difficult to get your birds in on a night i know most of mine in my retirement flights sleep out side no matter how cold it gets and they have access to inside flights