Breeding season is near.

[Brett]

Harvey11 and myself have built cabinets ready for the breeding season,we are breeding Zebs,socity,canarys.We feed our birds lots of greens and good seed,plenty of fresh water with a drop of apple cyder in the water.We have been adding fresh seeded winter grass.
We keep the cabinets clean at all times.They get lots of morning sun.
Our birds like dried Hay for nesting.
And just a little luck we might see some more babies


Brett,Harvey11

[BENSONSAN]

Fresh tea trea and lots of it, much more green food and seeding grasses. Also green grass as nesting materials seems to realy stir them up when added to there normal nesting materials, and constant maggots or termites or mealworms frozen or alive. To be honest i find it hard to stop them from breeding in winter but i try my best to not let them and cut down on the live and green foods.

And also clean before hand all the usual tasks etc.

[mattymeischke]

Have replaced old brush with new, cleaned out old nesting boxes and put a few newies in.
Have had mealies on the grow for a few weeks, starting giving them out this week as well as termites and Gerry's maggots.
Had hoped to be able to move birds into my new large area, but it isn't finished yet (grrr....).

Planted some birdseed about 6 weeks ago, which is so far showing very little and I'm afraid the galahs have done a job on me there.
Now I'm waiting for nature to bring forth the green seeding weeds.

Many signs of spring here at Gunda, from plum blossoms starting to open, to magpies booming, to me sneezing my head off most of this week.

[SamDavis]

To be honest i find it hard to stop them from breeding in winter but i try my best to not let them and cut down on the live and green foods.

Same here and makes it hard to do a complete clean out as there's always a nest somewhere. I've recently changed my "brushing technique" so I can easily replace single bunches throughout the year. I use small lengths of 90mm PVC storm water pipe tech screwed to the walls. You can shove quite a large bunch of brush into each pipe and it's easy to replace the odd bunch now and then without distrubing everyone. This means there's always some fresh brush somewhere in each aviary.

[jusdeb]

The PVC pipe is great for holding branches and lots of them .

[mattymeischke]

Nice one, Sam.
I use smaller pipe (2" poly) to hold seeding grasses upright for the grasslovers to climb up.

[jusdeb]

Thats a good idea too . Might try that MattyM

[Diane]

Ive got small sections of the black poly water pipe cable tied to the aviary for the seeding grasses, works fairly well with the millet stems too

[Jayburd]

Thanks Tiaris

[mikeknight]

what are these "bunts" jayburd

sporry if anyone has asked this already havnt read the whole thread !