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I'm planning on making a small aviary or large flight cage here pretty soon and I need ideas on how to make the bottom.

Whats the best way to do this for "easy" cleaning? Or rather, if you made your own aviary, how did you make your bottom and how do you clean it? So far I've only used cages with my birds and use the slide out bottoms. The only home aviary I've seen up close was gigantic and used button quail and shavings for their bottom.

This will be an inside aviary and probably not big enough for button quail....so any ideas?

Here is the link to the aviary that my hubby built for me. Pull out drawers.
http://www.finchforum.com/viewtopic.php ... bby#p65772

That is beautiful!!! AND with pull out drawers? Now you're just showing off!

The only downfall is cleaning the window, they panic for the first few minutes while I am cleaning.

I use bark chips, the type used for flowerbeds. They smell very nice (of pine bark). I use them for indoor flights as well as outdoors. They require different maintenance. Outdoor they just need topping up once a year and host lots of little bugs in them, so my finches are often on the floor hunting for them like mini-chickens.
Indoor the bark stays dry, so there are no bugs, which I wouldn't want anyway, but that means that the poop is not broken down, so once a month I change part of the bark that's directly below the perches and once a quarter I change all of it.

I like the way it looks in indoor flights especially if you have green plants in them, because it makes it look very natural.