Here's a picture of the 8 budgie's i have left after the culling .... The box's are their for now until i get a decent drill and bit's and piece's to attatch them higher and all around... so ill have 1 box on each side of the aviary and then 2 in the middle...

4 boxes and 8 birds, as in 4 pairs, will lead to trouble.

 

It is recommended that you have twice as many boxes as pairs.

 

Why not wait until you have more boxes and can secure them higher?

i could put 2 on each wall and maybe 3 in the middle... so their's 3 spare box's... but i don't want the box's to be cramped.

 

P.S one pair wont breed, and that's the grey-green and lutino hen.... only reason i kept them 2 was because the grey-green is a tame budgie, and i bought him the same day as my rainbow lorikeet, (he kept chasing him around the enclosure so i bought him) and i wasn't going to take the lutino from him cause he basically loves her to death so really it's only the 3 pair's, that will breed.

Colony breeding................

 

You like making your life difficult Matt ?

Why will he not breed? Does he know he is too old?

 

"Will not breed" has got absolutely nothing to do with "is willing to kill the chicks of another bird to secure a good location"

okay fine i'll take him out tomorrow and have him inside with his mate in a large cage with a stand on the verandah with the galah and lorikeet, and just have my 3 pair's in their.... I didnt want them confined to a cabinet for most of their life.... and i had way too many budgie's in my last aviary...

 

my reason being said that he wont breed is because he's been with his mate for over a year now, and was in the aviary for at least 8 months... they mated multiple times but the hen never took notice of the box..