I am at the end of my breeding season and i have reached almost around 150 birds to house. as We live on a suburban equivalent to a postage stamp, housing this many birds is not as easy as it may sound.

 

We are getting ready for a major cull (selling - for those who don't like the "c" word ) in the next couple of weeks, so am looking forward to the added space and reduced feed costs.

 

Anyway. today i had an idea and set to turning the breeding room into an aviary to house the red and blue ringers

 

this is how it turned out

 

I have used clips on the perches so i only have to unclip the dowels when its time to breed again.

 

The door to the nappy flight is open and the birds have free run of the entire space.

 

I have only put some of the blue ringers in there at the moment. Tomorrow i will be sorting through the other flights to pick out the rest of the blue and red rings. I am so excited about seeing all our babies together - finally

 

Don't mind the saggy perches. the birds think they are fun to bounce on

how many blue and red ringers do you think you have?

 

how are you deciding what to cull?

Excellent

We have around 80 or so blue and reds. oh and there is another 10 in the two wire cages on the floor that are just a little too young to join the flight yet

 

We will have help with culling as i have never done it before. Culling makes me pretty nervous but it will be great to have an expert pick through our birds and tell us which ones are good and which ones have to go.

Edited February 16, 201015 yr by **Liv**

looks good what a great idea liv

it sure makes use of the space. its 3m by 3m so would have been a waste to close it up like i had initially planned.

 

this is also the major advantage to wire cages. They are simply hosed off, dried in the sun, then folded flat and stored in the garage - 20 cages takes up around than 1 cubic meter of storage space =D

Edited February 16, 201015 yr by **Liv**

Hey Liv, have you got any birds you are willing to part with now?

I am also just about ready to buy some birds Liv. My partner and I are in the process of putting together an aviary my dad built years ago, all we need to do now is paint it, put up the wire and install a spray system for the hot weather.

 

How much would you be asking for your birds Liv?