I have had a good time today reading up on the day to day routine of Stephen Elliott and Geoff Lowe on their websites. It was a good read and was interesting reading their different routines and tips they give to up and comers... both websites were a great help with lots of information? At the moment I have one bird to look after so I don't have much work to do but hopefully one day I will have a nice set up with more birds... So it got me thinking...

 

What is your daily routine?

 

How long does it take to go through the routine?

 

And What would you you say was the best advice given to you by a more experienced breeder since coming into the 'fancy'?

I will tell Steve you have been admiring his site - he will be thrilled

 

My routine is flexible.

 

I get up in the morning and open the bird room. Check each bird for signs of sickness. check seed and water - clean and replace where necessary.

Check the flights for the same things

 

In the evening i change water and seed, check nests and feed veggies. Sweep out the bird room and close it up for the night.

 

I spend about 2 hours a day on the birds, some days more, some days less. (that is not including all the building etc that is currently happening)

I get up in the morning i feed all the birds with feed veggies.

 

 

go to school

 

and will doing all that looking for signs of sickness

do there seed and the water do there veggies

 

 

I spend about 3 hours out there a day

I get up and check each bird for signs of sickness. Then change seed, give them and vegies and water, (One of my boy's (Rocky) seems to think that round things belong in water, so every morning there is are toy ball's and the bigger seed's in there..) and change the newspaper, and clean the wire. I'm using my big flight cage I made, I've only got 12 at the moment the rest are spread out between my aunty and my mum's aviary's.

 

Then about lunch time I move them onto the grass and some days i remove the tray's at the bottom so they can eat it. (I'm using my big flight cage I made, I've only got 12 at the moment the rest are spread out between my aunty and my mum's aviary's.)

 

At about 5:30 - 6pm, whenever it first starts to get dark, i change the water again. Sweep around the cage and cover them up for the night.

 

I spend about 3.5 - 4 hour's on the birds most days, sometimes less. alot of it is watching though not actual work..

Get up 5 am go to work. Check on birds before leaving

 

Get home 3 pm.

 

3:30 pm 4:15 pm - feed breeding birds. Ring the chicks. Change seed and water. Add soft food or egg and biscuit or veggies (depends on the day) Check all the birds to make sure they are going well and are healthy.

 

4:15 - 4:30.

Feed aviary birds. Same as above, give all necessary things.

 

it takes 1 hour to do the birds each day so I think thats pretty good.

Some days I may take longer, when Im rearranging the aviary or somthing. Or my weekly cleanout (that takes 3 hours)

 

Then theirs the other animals....

 

Best advice given to me would be from a member of this forum. Beleive in your judgement. Only you know what is best for your birds.

I agree with it.

Edited April 2, 200916 yr by Pearce

I will tell Steve you have been admiring his site - he will be thrilled

 

My routine is flexible.

 

I get up in the morning and open the bird room. Check each bird for signs of sickness. check seed and water - clean and replace where necessary.

Check the flights for the same things

 

In the evening i change water and seed, check nests and feed veggies. Sweep out the bird room and close it up for the night.

 

I spend about 2 hours a day on the birds, some days more, some days less. (that is not including all the building etc that is currently happening)

I do exactly the same as Liv

 

PS That saves typing it up

Get up between 6am and 9am ish. Hang out with "eagle" and "rum"[red heeler]. Hit the hay between 11pm and 1am ish. Spend about ALL DAY with em'.

Jimmy - My routine is about doing things as quickly and as efficiently as possible, while juggling the demands of a young and growing family.

Goes something like this home from work 3.30ish open birdroom check everything is okay, vacuum floors 15mins

Prepare softfood/soaked seed mixture, and feed before 6.00pm (dont like feeding softfood after 6pm), at same time monitoring birds for any problems 30mins

9pm - check chicks, ringing, supplementary feeding any chicks if required, updating records etc spray and lock- up birdroom 15 -30mins

 

My cages contain enough seed for at least 2 weeks, but are monitored frequently. At weekends I clean all nestboxes, cages and flights and change any pairs as required, maybe spend 2-3hours a day on weekends again depending on Netball, soccer, music lessions and other home duties.

Good to see I'm not the only one trying to juggle work, a large family and my favourit hobby (my birdies) Heathro I get up in the morning and get my children ready, then I go out to the Aivery and do my checks and top ups, then I go into our home office (We have our own business and I work from home). Our Aivery is just outside our office window so I sit in there and look out at my birds and pretend to do paper work LOL while my husband thinks that I'm buisy doing work! Then in the after noon I go out and check them all over, do any more top ups and close them up for the night. I spend about 2 hours on a Saturday morning cleaning out the cages and changing feeders ect.

Hey heath.

 

If you dont mind me asking, what kind of seed dispensers do you use in your breeding cages?

Hey heath.

 

If you dont mind me asking, what kind of seed dispensers do you use in your breeding cages?

 

Pearce for my normal seed mixture i use a square takeaway food container (140mm x140mm x 40mm deep) holds about 1kg of seed. I also use jar feeders for my hulled oats/sunflower mixture.

okay Excellent thanks very much. With the square take away dishes do you find you have to blow the husks off the top every day?