I spoted a suitable looking avairy on ebay it cost me £400 delivered and erected and arrived just over a week ago.
Its 10ft x 4ft and 6ft high, the flight is 6x4 with the nesting area 2x4, with a safe entrance to boththrough the tripple doors.
I immediatly set to work equiping it it with numerous nesting boxes and perches also stocking up on feeders/drinkers, bedding material, food and treats etc.
Ive installed a light on a timer to come on when it gets dark, this runs for 3 hours and switches of when solar powered fairy lights automatically switch on giving a gentle backlight all night long. ive also added a couple of clear plastic windows to allow light in through the day as well as adding a proper door lock and handle.
The avairy well be moved eventually to its final siting but for now its right by our patio door.
We have so far stocked up with, 21 zebra finch, 9 benagalise, 3 canaries and 4 button quail, i plan on getting couple more hen quails and hen bengalise to give a higher hen to cock ratio as well as getting at least one cock canary as all 3 of ours currently appear to be hens.
These have been bought form local petshops and breeders as well as a bird fair we visitied last night.
They have plenty of nesting boxes of varing types (over 30) and i still have some more to go in. I also bought a douuble breeder cage, which ive put to use with a couple ofo new finch that seem to have trouble flying for long periods, so ill let them rest up for a while then release them back in in to the aviary.
Anyway here are plenty of pics sorry for some of the quality (my first time using to manual focus on the camera).
I was just wondering about the plastic igloo on the bottom of the aviary...?
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