Hi all I have been busy redoing my aviaries, so far I have done 2 out of 4.

I pulled down the old perch setup and cleaned out and hosed, virkon S and coopexed.

The whole idea is too try and keep the seed in one place .

I used pine to section off each area.

Under the perches I have wood shavings to help keep the droppings at bay, then there ia an area

for the seed so have a deep litter kind of thing going so they can peck away at seed in that area

at all times. I have a shelve for a show cage and their is a platform for grit etc.

My hopes are that it all stays in that area and that none come to the front of the aviaries.

The water in in the front part and I am hoping no seed makes its way there. I problem I have had in

the past. I plan on using guinea pig feeders soon, I have one.

The new perches almost go to the bottom of the aviaries and they are connected with tool clips, (so easy).

 

This is what one looked liked

 

This is how 2 look now.

1st one the smallest. Has the babies in it going through their first moult.

 

the 2nd one has the adult birds in it, some moulting really bad.

 

I think the birds are happier too.

Edited February 21, 201114 yr by splat

Looks great !! Well done

Thanks Kaz, just keeping myself busy while waiting to finish my bird room, so far the ceiling is completed and painted. Just waiting on walls etc.

I am happy with what I have done, just trying to keep everything away from the front. They actually look like Budgie Hilton now, lol.

Instead of having the perches go all the way across the aviaries, I have them going almost 3/4 of the way and leaving the bit more than 1 1/4 for the feed area. Plus the way the perches are now I don't need ladders in there. There is a little ladder in each one at the end where the perches start, just high enough for the birds that can't fly to climb on to the perches. I have 2 with damaged wings from flight and they would have to be my best birds but at the same time the are the most fertile ones too, they still do that the job.

Wow that looks good Splat! I like the idea alot, I hope it all does exactly as you'd like it to

So far so good Amy, the babies have been in theirs for about a week and all the seed is where it is meant to be and the the wood savings are staying put except the birds are carrying some of it out but over it has been much better. The best thing is the water is clean NO seed in it.

Plus another thing is ood if a bird takes a crash landing for any reason they have a lot of room for a soft landing

really good mate i was going to have that sort of thing but decided my flight not bigg enough so why i added a pop out

but yes no more hard landings great :}

and is so much easyer to clean as i did try for while only my floor sucked up moister into the sawdust in winter so i stopped scared of mould i was

all good now but wont be redoing it

well do looks great

Went out this morning to check baby aviary and where the water bottle is , there is a pool of blood but can't work out who it is from, searching for any sharp bits but can't find any, a mystery. It is a lot of blood too.

well lets hope you dont find out whom it was from in morning :{

Everyone is fine today GB, I did find a sky blue spangle hen with some blood on her, near her tail area, maybe one of the other birds pulled one and made it bleed, any way if it was her she is fine now.

 

Clearwing has done his the same but his door is in the middle, which I wish mine were like that, any way at one end where the perches are he has the wood shavings and at the other end where he has his seed, so he has a piece of wood each end so when you walk in there is plenty of room with out walking in seed. If any seed or wood shavings jump the the wood, just vacuum up. But i don't have the room for that. Plus his aviary is indoors so no rain gets to it.

 

BUT overall I am happy with mine, mainly the perches, being wanting to get rid of my crappy perch set since Greg did it.

Edited February 24, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

They look very happy, nice work splat.

Thanks Taboo, I wish I had of done it ages ago.