Hello everyone,

 

This is my new aviary, its 4m across and 3m long and is currently home to 27 budgies and 3 king quails. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how many I could comfortably house in it? Thankyou

 

Terrific aviary

 

As long as you dont try breeding in there you could house around 100 - 150 in that size aviary if the feeding areas and perching is right

 

 

PS soil floor and mesh to the ground will mean you have to deal with mice, rats and anything that can dig into the aviary. Mice can go through the average aviary mesh. If you tin the sides of the aviary up about 2ft ( 60cms ) you can avoid them getting through the mesh.

Edited May 2, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

Haha thankyou KAZ,

 

I am quite fond of my aviary, a bit rustic but my budgies love the space, they fly around like crazy haha.

100-150 is a lot of budgies O_O I didn't think I would be able to have that many in there, not that I'm complaining ...

I am trying to hunt down cheap breeding boxes because I want to start breeding, I've heard you need a box for every female, and I currently have more males then females, is that okay if I want to start breeding them?

 

My dad has attached extra wire along the bottom, and down the bottom of the sheeting I have placed scrunched up balls of mesh in all the holes. I have noticed though that there is a 1-2 centimeter gap under each door and I am unsure about how to fix this, there are these long log things you can place along the bottom of a door to stop the cold coming in, I was thinking of buying those, just outdoor ones instead.

 

Thankyou KAZ

 

Hahaha aaaa I just re-read your reply, I didn't read the part about the mesh properly, yes the tin is a good idea, I shall have to tell my dad about it, i'll just grab some more aluminium sheeting, that's what the walls are.

 

I am trying to hunt down cheap breeding boxes because I want to start breeding, I've heard you need a box for every female, and I currently have more males then females, is that okay if I want to start breeding them?

 

 

read this topic before you begin putting nestboxes in an aviary

 

http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=28294&hl=

Hmmm okay, sounds nasty, I want to be able to breed them well, so if I can avoid as many problems as I can it would be good. What are those big cabinet things called with lots of cages and a breeding box off each cage called? Lol sorry about my bad examples. I want to ask other questions but they are all breeding related so I will ask them in the breeding section after Ive had a look through the posts.