Well I told my partner that I need a space to put my one breeding cabinet cause I want to pair up my new fallow hen with something specific cause I want to track her babies cause my fallow cock has paired up with another hen and I hope to cross breed them all later down the track and get some fallows! Anyway, I was clearing off a spot on my dressing table to put the box, but he didnt think it was a good idea. Project 1: Clean the spare room/junk room/tool shed room! (I dont as yet have a toolshed so the spare room doubles for that as well) That only took all day. I couldnt belive SO much JUNK could be stored in such a little room! I will be putting out junk in the garbage bin for the next 3 weeks! Project 2: Our king parrots have been showing signs they might want somewhere to breed. We have a few breeding boxes in the aviary but more suited to the smaller/larger parrots like princesses, crimson wings. Adam, my fiance, saw something on the net when he was researching king parrot boxes about using a wine barrel, so a couple of weeks ago, we got a wine barrel and Sunday we (mostly I mean he) spent the day welding a plate and steel tube together and dug a huge hole in my rock hard back yard and concreted the post in. The we, together, lifted the thing up onto the pedestal he had made. All in all it went very well and the birds are showing a lot of interest. (Mostly the Crimsons and Regents though and if they steal the box we will have to set up another king box!!)

Anyway I just wanted to share a couple of pictures of how it looks. We were pretty pleased with our ingenuity and effort

You can see our Regent hen Grace on the perch of the wine barrel box and just see the kings in the back right hand corner behind it.

This is the opening, the only thing we still have to do is create the bottom door for looking in and checking, which Adam will do in a couple of weeks

Wow! What an awesome idea I hope they like it. Your parrots are so pretty - I love all the bright colours

:hap: OMG such pretty birdies!!! :hap:

 

all the best ith your breeding!!

 

♥Indz

This is the opening, the only thing we still have to do is create the bottom door for looking in and checking, which Adam will do in a couple of weeks :hap:

Looks fantastic...but if Adam waits too long he will break eggs doing the bottom door cos it looks like they will be moving right in :hap:

OMG it is HUGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Great idea !!!

Wow... that looks fantastic. Great job by you BOTH

wow, that looks interesting.

Edited April 8, 200817 yr by birdluv

Well we beat the birds to it!

Adam got the door installed this weekend. I just thought I would post a couple of pics, cause I thought he did a really cool job :bluebudgie:

You are right, he did a great job

Maybe they are easier to come by around your area, but where I come from that's one EXPENSIVE breeding box! Looks great though, I hope they use it for you now that he's put so much work into it.

Well, to buy a breeding box from a birdstore for a king parrot around here costs upwards of $80 and it looks manufactured and boring (chipboard type thing). The barrel was $40, and the stuff to mount it on we picked up cheap from a salvage yard. I am just lucky to have someone creative around I guess :bluebudgie:

Wow, I wish! A wine barrel around here you are looking at well over $100.

most wineries will sell surplus stock,bare in mind it isnt the huge wine barrel but the smaller one (cant remember the name of it).It is a 225Lt barrel.If no vineyards around you try a salvage/second hand dealer.

The top of the stand was made from a flag holder and the steal pole is from a salvage yard as well-all 5mil thick so was a dream to weld.All up the cost to build was approx$70.

Im Adam By The Way (Laughing out loud)

That's too cool. Way to go with recycling !!!!! I hope you gave it a serious washing out. Or there might be some drunken babies being brought up in there because of the old fumes. " Hiccup chirp ! "

most wineries will sell surplus stock,bare in mind it isnt the huge wine barrel but the smaller one (cant remember the name of it).It is a 225Lt barrel.If no vineyards around you try a salvage/second hand dealer.

The top of the stand was made from a flag holder and the steal pole is from a salvage yard as well-all 5mil thick so was a dream to weld.All up the cost to build was approx$70.

Im Adam By The Way (Laughing out loud)

 

 

Hi Adam and welcome to the forum.

 

I think I'd rather get the full one. It would be a longer more enjoyable project

we are just hopeing the kings get it otherwise we have to (me) make another one...