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Posted by Jasperjohn on June 17, 2001 at 21:36:20:
In Reply to: Plans For Flight Cages and Nesting Boxes??? posted by Jon Thomas on March 26, 2001 at 19:59:32:
Jon I wish you lots of luck in your project. I built a little flight cage myself
about this time last year for finches and a pair of doves. I used a simple box format
making a cage 2.5 feet wide X 6 feet high X 8 feet long, using 1/2 inch gauge wire mesh for the top
and plexi-glass for large 4 feet X 3 feet windows on one side. I added cross ventilation
with the same wire mesh with two windows on each side. I then hung some bird houses from
the top, and placed the food down below... I had some limited success with breeding,
had a few doves, and a few finches reproduce, but I made several design errors in the cage. Things I would do differently.
1) When building using plexi-glass put the framed side of the window facing out ward so that
the birds cannot sit on the frame.
2) instead of a two door system to open the cage, I would build a sliding bottom for cleaning
ease.
3) Only build the cage as high as your windows, birds do not seem to like to go down below the
windows even for feeding, they get nervous when they cannot see the room around them.
4) Keep all the perches and nesting boxes at the same height, my birds seem to fight for the
highest house / perch.
5) If you build your cage in a room, make sure it is the the right heights to go down/up the
stairs as well as though the door.. No sense building a cage that
you cannot get down/up the stairs and out of your house
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