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19 gauge might be chewed through and your birds escape. In addition the 16 gauge is easier to work with especially if you are using wood rather than tubular aluminium as the main structure. Your design will be dictated by the space you have available but do remember that it is preferable to have a plastic roof over 75% of the top and provision to stop the cold winter winds blowing through the flight. An inside shelter where you can fit an electric light and dimmer to increase the feeding time during the winter months will make life easier for them to cope with the winter conditions. You must also ensure that the structure is rat proof by including suitable footings as a base, once rats get into an aviary they are difficult to eradicate and will kill and eat your birds. If you keep Budgerigars in an outside aviary with a grass floor you should consider the possibility of a build up of intestinal worm eggs that stay viable for long periods in the damp conditions of such a floor. I once had a light green hen breeding with four babies in such a set up and found her dead one morning. When I checked at post mortem she had thirty four ¾” long worms in her intestine. Fortunately the cock raised the four babies. By using sand on the floor and keeping this dry by using a plastic roof over the majority of the flight the worm eggs quickly dry up when they fall on the sand and cannot turn into worms if the bird ingests the dried up worm egg.
This year I selected 6 pairs of my 2018
bred budgerigars to breed with, these are all blue series colours and I placed these in a 15feet long aviary. All the hens laid their eggs fairly close together which allowed me to move the youngsters around between nest boxes so that each hen had youngsters that were roughly the same size, which gave each baby a much better chance of not getting crushed by a much larger nest mate. In the first round 19 youngsters were produced and are happily flying in the aviary with the parents. The second round is progressing well with 18 young hatched by 19th August and I am fairly certain that I will get a few more yet. I guess that by the end of the second round there will be at least 38 youngsters from the original 12 parents, a very satisfactory year for these Budgerigars.
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