Hi, About a week ago I bought a new aviary which I will try to turn into a breeding room, so I am getting a few more breeding cabinets. These are the ones my uncle uses (He makes them) and I think this will be the design I will use. Are there and faults in there or anything that could be improved

 

Thanks nitsuD (Mainly talking about no. 32 and 33)

 

..............Besides a good clean

how do you clean them out?

it looks like a bit of a job without slide out trays

..............Besides a good clean

 

Yeah I agree

it looks like its entirely made from chipboard. chipboard warps, molds and falls to pieces.

The design of them is okay. What are the dimentions?

Slide out trays would be good to make cleaning a bit easier,

Using ply instead of chipboard would reduce the risk of them warping/getting mouldy etc,

Also if your stacking them in pairs (like in the picture) you could mount the nest boxes on the side of the cabinets instead of the front for easier veiwing.

Yes give the chipboard the flick,& use a constuction ply,if you can get onto some,Have alook at the ones Daz makes,& use them as acopy & you wont go far wrong.I would get yourself a vacum cleaner,one of those wet & dry

or simular.Just make sure when you are cleaning in the cage,you don;t suck up the budgie,

The design of them is okay. What are the dimentions?

Slide out trays would be good to make cleaning a bit easier,

Using ply instead of chipboard would reduce the risk of them warping/getting mouldy etc,

Also if your stacking them in pairs (like in the picture) you could mount the nest boxes on the side of the cabinets instead of the front for easier veiwing.

 

Yeah, I would definitely add the sliding trays. The dimensions don't really matter as I will be building my own. What would be the minimum size?

I'd say a minimum would be about 60cm wide, 50cm high and 40cm deep.

The length is the most important so if you can go bigger on any of the dimensions length would be the the place to add to.

 

If it helps this is a rough design I did in adobe of the breeding cabinets I'm making at the moment. You can tweek the measurements to suit your needs but bigger is better.

thats an excellent plan Linda it would be very easy to follow something like that.

Thanks Pearce, I like to draw the pics so I can get a better idea of what they'll look like when they're together.

I only hope they actually turn out okay when they're finished (hopefully over the weekend).

I'll probably post some pics of them when they're done.

I'd say a minimum would be about 60cm wide, 50cm high and 40cm deep.

The length is the most important so if you can go bigger on any of the dimensions length would be the the place to add to.

 

If it helps this is a rough design I did in adobe of the breeding cabinets I'm making at the moment. You can tweek the measurements to suit your needs but bigger is better.

 

Very well Done... Do you have a copywrite on this or can anyone use it

Sorry but you'll be breaking strict copyright laws if you use anything even close to this design, in fact the rectangle in all forms is in owned by me and I’ll be having words with some of the people in this forum about their blatant use of MY rectangle

 

Ps: Feel free to use and improve my design.

Yours will probably turn out better than mine anyway, my carpentry skills are poor to say the least.

Yours will probably turn out better than mine anyway, my carpentry skills are poor to say the least.

That makes two of us.

Sorry but you'll be breaking strict copyright laws if you use anything even close to this design, in fact the rectangle in all forms is in owned by me and I'll be having words with some of the people in this forum about their blatant use of MY rectangle

 

D'oh i'll have to use the rombus again