Liz, Some Q's about your bird room

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:53 am

I didn't realize it got that cold in Australia. Great to hear they are doing well and still breeding Mick!

Is this pretty well the end of the breeding season for your location, Mick? How long are your days now? Sunrise/sunset?

CandoAviary · Post by **CandoAviary** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:32 pm

The temp here is close to 90%, 32 C during the day and 85%, 30 C at night... High humidity, 60% and up....... the gouldians are thriving, setting up nest and happy

In the winter I set the thermpstat to come on if it drops below 60% but this year I plan on lowering it to 55%

perrysbirds · Post by **perrysbirds** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:50 pm

Very nice setup Liz!

Perry

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:50 am

Thanks Perry. Missed seeing you are here lately!

fincher · Post by **fincher** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:33 am

yeh i have still got gouldians cherrys and a few other finches breeding in outdoor avaries and do well with the cold and i dont ad any heating sources and wont be doing that like mickp. the temps are around the same as mickps too

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:32 pm

I have my humidifier set to turn off at 55% so it is usually between 55 - 58%

perrysbirds · Post by **perrysbirds** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:17 pm

L in Ontario wrote:Thanks Perry. Missed seeing you are here lately!

I have not been on much but going to try to get back in the habit of logging on a little more.

chrischris · Post by **chrischris** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:32 pm

Mickp,

Just want to know if the night time temperature is at 4-5 Celcius what is the daytime high for the temperature there? Just curious about the temperature fluctuation in a 24 hr period.

Chris

mickp wrote:at present the night time temps here are getting down to 4 - 5 degrees celcius (freezing to me) my gouldians ar in an outside aviary and are still breeding. there are a couple of nests of young and another 3 nests with eggs. the only thing I do differently once the nights get colder & longer is to add extra linseed, rape seed and niger to their daily dry seed mix. this is for the higher fat content.
I have no artificial lighting or heating in the aviary nor will I be adding any, as the birds cope the way it is

fincher · Post by **fincher** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:42 am

the day time temp here in winter can range from bout 12-25 celcius in the winter but it is manly in the mid -hight teens. the finches dont mind it at all. seens the birds i keep are from either Australia. or africa. so most of them are used to alot of varient in temps like in the outback of Australia it can reach mid 40c then drop as low down to 4-5c at night time.

thanks chris

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:23 am

Wow that's one heck of a lot of temperature variation in 24 hours!

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