I am building a small outside aviary for two pairs of celestial parrotlets that i hope to breed. I will be putting a 2ft x 1ft box in each aviary made from medium ply wood to house a budgie nesting box. Do I need to use a heat lamp aswell ? if so what wattage and is the box large enough so as not to over heat them.
i saw a pic of a nesting box for a parakeet at PETCO.com and i wondered if i could make one. is there a specil kind of wood? are some bad for the birds? how big do i have to make it?
EXAMPLE can u put it like this
5in W 7in D ext.
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Hi there, i need to build a loft, aviary,coop or whatever you call it for 12 runt pigeons, because there are allot of cats in our neighborhood, and the neighbors will complain to the council the birds will have to stay locked up at all times , so to begin with how big a loft do i need to build for those sort of circumstances? i plan to have 6 double nesting boxes, an area where they can bath, and get plenty of sun as well, what type of paint do i use over wood and or would it be better to use builders lime instead? the floor will have to be 12 ml waterproof ply wood, do i spread newspapers over the floor or can i use sawdust, wood shavings and have it removed every two months or so in order to keep things clean and germ free?
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Ok i have a nest box that looks like the second one down on the link http://www.nativeamerica.com/boxes.html… but the hole is larger and it isnt hollow, they gave it to me when i bought the birds is this a good nest box ,it isnt hollow but i’ve felt the wood and it is very soft it feels like sponge ,so they wont have trouble picking at it they have already started poking a deeper hole in it, should i be expecting eggs soon, i’ve seen the male balance on the female but i havnt seen any eggs.when should i expect the eggs?
I have 2 parakeets: male + female. They are between 5-8 years old right now and I am interested in breeding them. I went to a local bird store and bought a nesting box and put a little of wood shavings on the bottom. Then I put the box inside the cage. However, it seems like my birds don’t understand what the nesting box is for. The male bird often stands on top of the box on the flat surface. The female doesn’t do anything. She never went inside or showed signs of interest. What can I do to ‘teach’ them to use the nesting box?
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How can one distinguish between individual wood pigeons. We feed birds in our back garden, and woodies are our steadiest customers. However, they are large, greedy birds, and left to themselves will devour everything. How can we permit several woodies to feed while preventing one of their number from monopolizing all the food? How do we tell individuals apart?
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Tagged birds, devour, everything, Food, garden, number, steadiest, wood, wood pigeons
Green Woodpecker feeing young one. please feel free to use for nature classes or whay ever. Music is all copyright free and we and the woodpeckers give you full permission to copy and use this as you wish. taken July 2009 in Buxhall, Suffolk
