Good news, All the bats aare on the walls and the ceiling is finished.

I am now ready to put the walls on and then paint the lot.

ceiling half done

 

ceiling finished

 

Walls

 

My Christmas present from Greg

A mitre sliding compound saw it came with stand and a roller work stand.

 

So really happy, getting there, but I do need to make a veranda out the front

where the door and window is because the heat that comes in there in thearvo is

horrorific. I new that was going to happen but it is worse than I thought.

I have the door and window all facing the wrong way but I had NO choice.

But I plan on making a veranda about 3and 1/2 feet deep and as long as the shed

and shade the door and window. But still need air in there plus light.

I need another window at the back for airflow but that means I loose another wall so

still deciding.

More updates as more gets done.

 

do the extra window for ventilation im telling u do it mate you can close it if needed you can still use space for breeding unit to go in fount or have window in flight as im going too

Thanks Gb, there is no flight in the breeding rooming, it is all breeding only. I have the baby flight in the other breeding room and I am making the my last new breeding room extension into another indoor flight once I finish this one.

Went shopping for timber for walls today but no luck, will try again tomorrow, I am getting really keen now.

Clearwing has offered to bring it from Shepparton to here once we purchase some and help me put it on as it is far to heavy for little old me to lift and I am really scared of using a circlar saw. I am a jig saw and a mitre saw girl.

Today I started gap filling all my gaps. Going to start painting the ceiling in the next few days.

Really getting excited as things are moving a bit now.

thats great

things looking good well done its great that other bird people are helping i too had some help off a few bird dudes if it wasnt for them my flight would still be a shed :{

I am really scared of using a circlar saw. I am a jig saw and a mitre saw girl.

 

Theres a smaller circ saw you can get that less heavy and easy for women to use. Once you have used a circ saw you will wonder why you were so scared of using one in the first place. I was lucky...another budgie friend sold me his table saw for only $70 so its just great to use.

 

 

PS Now I have to start all over again with my aviaries........rebuilding all but starting out with temporary aviaries for awhile ......I wont have a birdroom for awhile either. I will have to breed them in the garage

Edited January 19, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

Greg use to have a small one, a ozito and it was light, I had a go one day but it jumped and caught on the wood and frightened the **** out of me. He now has a GMC I think and it is very heavy, too heavy for me.

Yes I would love a table saw. Had my eye on a work station thing that has a circular saw under and I now wished that I had bought it, it was second hand. But at least my wood would be cut straight and I could do it myself.

Geoff and I have put off the timber for the wall until next fortnight.

So i guess I will get stuck into painting the ceiling.

Well here is an update on bird room.

LOL there is not one, I actually have the ceiling finished and painted, power is connected but still NO walls, the plan was next week but I have decided to catch up on bills first, since I have lost my job things are a bit harder now and I have got behind on heaps of things.

I am Clearwings avairy assistant so from now on he wil be keeping the majority of my earnings towards my walls. I go there and do his birds tomorrow and Tuesday.

But I noticed black stuff in my radiator again so that is looking iffy.

 

Anyway why I am posting this is because I have decided to clean out my old breeding room, cages and all and put my birds down. So that means the first half of my breeding season, maybe even the whole will be in the old one. Hopefully walls will go up soon but then I have to deck it all out.

 

Today I pressure washed all the wire fronts, steel trays and have cleaned 6 cages so far only 12 wood one to go yuk, I pressure washed the wire ones last week.

I have taken half the nest down. When I finish cleaning cages and nest boxes I am painting them all, even the nest box which I never done before, Last year I had some french moult and I want to knock it now. I am washing and disinfecting everything and I was told paint will help it keep it at bay.

Last year I use VirkonS on all cages and nest boxes yet I still had it this year. Last year I had the last 2 nest with it and I put it down to stress and heat because I have never have never had it before. So I planned to never breed in the heat again. Tomorrow I am putting all nest boxes in a bucket Of VirkonS

 

I need to get hold of some F10.

 

I have worked out a few pair and I will start a new thread when all is completed. Well I will try to remember anyway.

I am actually really excited about my breeding this year, I have some really good birds that I bred last year that will be cousin to cousin and I keen to see what i get from them.

This is my line bred birds in progress because last year I mainly out crossed so it is really going to interesting to see what I get when they go back into my line.

im looking forward to seeing you new pair and the out comes when your back on trake with your line :}

im looking forward to seeing you new pair and the out comes when your back on trake with your line :}

 

Me too!

Thanks Gb and Finnie ,Me too!!! can't wait.

Cleaned most of the cages today have 2 to on one side and 3 on the other. Then I have to paint them all and put all the nest box in the VirkonS and then paint them too, I have to clean and disinfect the concaves and perches also, so a big job. I need to make a couple new nest boxes also.

I am going to spray VikonS all over the bird rooms too, everywhere.

Edited February 27, 201114 yr by splat

Well today I painted all 16 breed cages, 2 to and one baby holding cage which are in the other part so I thought I would do this side first.

I also found an easy way to clean nest boxes, concaves and perches, Greg's new presure washer. it is so cool, I have used it more than him. I have cleaned 2 of the aviaries, still have to to go and I have cleaned the breeding cage trays and wire fronts plus what I did today, it was so much easier than hand scrubbing as I usely do, I couldn't believe it, when I sprayed the concaves the poop was very caked on and it just blew it all off.

Tomorrow I will be putting nest boxes a bucket of VirkonS and then sit them out in the sunlight all day, they say sunlight kills all germs. I am not going to worry about painting the insides of them I think, I am worryed the smell of paint might be to much for the breeding birds. Any thoughts on painting nest boxes inside and out.

I have great NEWS, Depending on Clearwing and his back and shoulder, if all good we are putting the walls up in my birdroom Saturday. OR at least Geoff is going to bring the walls down from Shepparton for me. I am so excited.

I am NOT going back into my old bird room because of the rotten mice. BUT I am still trying to mice proof it.

So far I mouse proofed the outside aviaries and the indoor aviary but not the birdrooms yet. So much to do.

Anyway I have decided to pull down the new shelving I did last year and put in the new birdroom and that will save me heaps of money.

 

I am thinking of giving Greg the newest part of my old bird room for a tool shop. it is 11ft long and 6 foot and it will give us somewhere to put the tools and saw etc. BUT that means I have no where to put my holding cages, I am going to try and get it all in the new one.

 

So the old birdroom will be as you walk in there will be 4 large cages for holding etc (once mouse proof that is) and the where my breeding cages were which is in the same part will be my storage for seed bins. Then you walk into the inside aviary and that's it. Where as you would normally walk through the inside aviary into the other part birdroom room where I had my very large baby cage and breeding cages with a shelve above which is 11 ft long that my show cages sit on and then on the other wall are the 6 wire cages. Well this is the part I think Greg can have.

So that means the door into there will be sealed over. Still thinking about it because if I can mouse proof it, it would make a lovely large indoor aviary.

 

Any way first thing first walls yes yes yes.

Today I bought a heap of timber to make my stands for the breeding cages.

Geoff and I have decided that we will put the walls up and just leave it all unpainted until the end of the year when the breeding season has finished, then I can paint it do the floor etc the way I want it.

 

Will be continued with photos, Oh we are putting a window in the door also because it is a bit dark in there this time of the year and it will get worse when winter arrives.

Great News.

On Friday Geoff delivered my wall and between him and Greg they put one and half walls up, there were a few hassles, so we called it a day.

Yesterday while I was at the Diploma Show, Greg was been handy and put up one whole wall and half the front, it looks great.

I gave him a big hug and a huge kiss.

We only have to put up front side where the window is and half the last wall. Greg would of done it all yesterday but I had to put a couple more pieces of frame wood in.

Today I painted the walls that are finished and it looks fabulous, I just can't wait to get the birds in there.

Saturday we went to the local poultry auction and the have sundries there too beside live stock, well there was a white single pantry there in great condition so I asked Greg's dad to bid up to $25.00 for me because it will go great in the bird room for all my bits and pieces, Merv got it for $4.00, wow I was so excited and he wouldn't let me pay for it either, so besides being a steel, it cost me nothing also.

Edited March 22, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

Pictures of what we have done so far.

 

 

this is my $4.00 single pantry. I have only gave it a quick clean need to do more yet.

 

Hopefully walls will be all up by Friday and painted by Sunday, Have our club show on Saturday.

Looks fantastic !!

Woah, looks great!!!

Thanks Kaz, I can't wait to put the birds down, hopefully by the end of next week.

Having problems with the show team because they are all in the one aviary together they are fighting, 2 brothers have decided they want the same hen and yesterday morning I was out there looking at them and the brothers were chasing apecking at each other in between chasing the hen and then it was all out war, they were on the floor going for it, both birds are 2 of my best and the cobalt spangle was the one that got reserve Sunday and I am hoping he will do well Saturday, not if this keeps up. The hen did well Sunday too.

I had to take the hen out to stop the fighting.

I think they birds are all ready to go down.

The old breeding cages are going into the new birdroom this year and after the breeding season I will make new ones.

It's a shame that I have already painted them CREAM instead of white.

 

Thanks Squeak I am very happy with it.

Edited March 23, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

the birdroom is really starting to come together splat looks awesome id love one like that!!!

Thanks Kochy23, tomorrow the last wall goes on and the rest of the painting. It is looking great.

Today Greg put the last wall on and I started filling all gaps.

Tomorrow I hope to finish painting and make the stand for the breeding cages.

Will post some photos when all finished. Really excited.

Today I finished the painting and boy was I worn out by the end of it. Tomorrow I still need to put a ceiling thing and gap fill a couple of things and then a bit of touch up paint, take a few minutes. I only did one coat on the walls until after the breeding season but it looks great, I think I put it on heavy so the one coat is fine. I don't have enough paint to do 2 coats anyway.

After I finish the touch up job, I have to make a stand for the breeding cages, hopefully it will not take to long.

I don't know whether I should close it in or leave it open, I want to close it because it will look neater but just in case the mice do get in there I will be able to see them. Will decide tomorrow.

I am hoping to have some breeding cages in there by tomorrow night but I still need the wire door made.

But it is great it is all coming together.

can isugesst if you have not already to paint it with a coat of that mold resistant paint mate

can isugesst if you have not already to paint it with a coat of that mold resistant paint mate

 

Too late Gb all done but I will see how it goes for this breeding season and if mold shows up I will do it then, can't wait any longer want to put the birds down and already some have started to go into a moult.

Gosh it's looking super Splat! Well done, you must be so proud

Great news , Birdroom is almost done,

Photos tomorrow hopefully,

So far I have made 2 stands for cages, Greg and i decided to have them open with legs so if the mice get in I should be able to see them and cut back their nesting places. I made it out of wood but at the end of teh breeding season I am going to remake them in alluminum with those connectors. I also am going to repaint the ceiling and walls, make new breeding cages and put lino on the floor BUT all that has to wait until the end of the year, at this stage I just want to put the birds down.

So yep made to stands, on one stand there are 12 wooden cages my old ones painted cream, can't be bothered painting them again, so they stay that colour. lol. there is room for 4 more wooded ones also which will make 16. BUT 12 for the time being.

On the other stand there will be nine wire cages, pulled down the cabinet stand I made last year out of the old bird room and reconstructing it in the new one, saves money plus I have decided I do not want the old one anymore because of the mice and I am going to make it into my work shop for my tools etc.

I have put the strip of wood up on the ceiling. There will be a flurecent light there soon.

I have put a light up just inside the door which is plenty for the time being, not to bright for the birds etc.

I have also put extra shelves in my $4.00 cabinet , I just love the cupboard, it is super. I also put all the wire fronts on the breeding cages and all the trays are in, but need to put the perches in and make some new ones also.

I also took the old chest which is long with 3 doors, mice can't get in it but the little rats can breed under it because when I moved it one ran out , frighten he **** out me and there was a nest under it.

 

Tomorrow I have to finish putting the wire cage cabinet back together, shouldn't take long, make the new perches and put all perches in.

Put wire on window, Put one more shelf in my cupboard, paint the old chest.

Cut a bit of tin to put in the door way so I can leave the door open because I haven't made my wire door yet, can't afford it until next week. why I am doing this is because I do not want any unwanted mice running in their when I am not looking. I think the door will be closed always anyway because the birds might get out, depends on hour dark it is with the door closed.

Anyway I hope to have the birds in there by the end of the day tomorrow.

I will try and post some photos tomorrow.

Oh yes forgot to mention, I GOT A JOB FRIDAY, it is only every second weekend but i can get extra hours, better than nothing.

It will make things easier.