Hi

23 Nov 2017, 20:45

Hi all, just spent the last few days cruising the forum and am impressed by the wide range of expertise on show - if i’d Have found it earlier it doubtless would have saved me some rodent issues. We started with a 3.5 m x 3 x 2.5 home built avairy to house some zebra (somehow 3 pair have turned into 60 + in 2 years) a few Gouldian’s & recently yellow & red painted, king & stubble quail. And now we seem to be adding new cages every summer........looking forward to reading more cheers Gary.

23 Nov 2017, 21:21

Hi Gary and welcome to the Forum.

Jack

23 Nov 2017, 22:30

Muddle wrote: ↑23 Nov 2017, 20:45 Hi all, just spent the last few days cruising the forum and am impressed by the wide range of expertise on show - if i’d Have found it earlier it doubtless would have saved me some rodent issues. We started with a 3.5 m x 3 x 2.5 home built avairy to house some zebra (somehow 3 pair have turned into 60 + in 2 years) a few Gouldian’s & recently yellow & red painted, king & stubble quail. And now we seem to be adding new cages every summer........looking forward to reading more cheers Gary.

Congrats on the breeding of yer zebras Gary, seems like you've now got yerself a good stud of em

Yer definitely doing the wise thing in getting yerself some cages as to continue breeding em successfully and gain quality one really does need to breed in cages within a birdroom,

Hope all goes well for yer and welcome to the forum

Be lucky

24 Nov 2017, 08:08

Hello and Welcome to the Forum Gary. Cheers Craig

25 Nov 2017, 14:59

Hi Gary
Welcome to the forum
Sounds like all is going well
Nat and Glenn

25 Nov 2017, 20:23

Hi Gary & Welcome to the Forum

27 Nov 2017, 06:56

WELCOME to the AFF Gary.... enjoy the forum and your birds.

27 Nov 2017, 10:05

Welcome to the forum. Think most of us have had the rodent problem at least once. Those deep foundations and tight doors are a must. How many avairys do you have now?
LML

03 Dec 2017, 18:29

Hi - one colony aviary, one suspended (yep trying to avoid rodents - pity they as good at climbing adjacent trees as they are at digging) and one small patio / breeding cage. Just had our first three young painteds fledge along with a dozen or so Zebs so all going well at present.

03 Dec 2017, 22:37

Congratulations on the new younguns. If you can put all the birds into the newer avairys and deepen the foundations on the original it could make the digging problem go away.
LML