The Budgie Barn...

Birdy916

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So my flock of parakeets started out at 3, they were in a small cage that was very unkempt..
The rescue lady I got my bigger birds from gave me a nice big cage that suited them well...
But, My friends have dumped 4 more budgies on me, so now I have a flock of 7... and even the newer bigger cage is too small.

So during the quarantine for the new budgies(i suspect its not really needed as they are young birds and very active and healthy-looking, but Ill do a qt anyways) I am going to be converting an old rabbit hutch into the new Budgie Barn.

Its 4ft wide, 2ft deep, and 2.5 ft high, and looks like the perfect size for my lil flock...
It already has 1/2in hardware cloth but I did have to jerry-rig a bird door on it, so I used a piece of the original cage...

I cleaned it out really well because it used to be a rabbit cage and I did use it as a brooder for my chickens about 4 yrs ago.
I scrubbed with hot soapy water, then I scrubbed with hot bleach water, then I scrubbed with a birdcage disinfectant, so I think its clean and sanitary for my keets!

The outside of it and the inner back wall is painted with latex paint that has been cured for years now so it should be inert if nibbled.
However, I may still paint it to match the color in the birdroom, its a lighter brighter more tropicallyish green....

Anyways, here youll see why its called the budgie barn, and tell me what you all think? sorry bout the mess, but its supposed to rain so my laundry room has become my workroom for a bit...

I just need to design and attach a slide-out poop tray for underneath it...
And being that the roof is wooden, Ill probably build a nice playgym on top and maybe make an access door to it...

It is surprisingly light-weight, and my plan is to hang it from the ceiling in my new birdroom I just finished...



And here is the cool door, its the big swing-out door from a small cage, and has 2 food doors, I locked one slide-up door shut with that link of chain, the other I made so it flips down and gives a little landing platform.
 
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chadwick

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Cage looks great I'm just worried that the little budgies could get their head stuck in the wiring
 

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I'm actually concerned that the birds could get their heads stuck also as chadwick mentioned. Maybe you can replace the wire with something more size appropriate for parakeets. Other than that the cage looks very nice. Barring using that I would very much recommend the Prevue F040 (search for that) - it's a great cage for smaller type birds and quite large, and reasonably priced, and if that isn't large enough there is the F050 - which is even larger.
 
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how is a budgie going to get its head thru, let alone stuck, in .5 inch hardware cloth?
The wire door is from a parakeet cage... it has .5 inch spacing...

I dunno, maybe I wrote it wrong above, its half of an inch(1/2in) not one inch by two inch(1inx2in).

Its like any birdcage with half-inch bar spacing, except it has crossbars at half-inch intervals all the way up and down also, which makes half-inch squares...

Im not sure what that would be in centimeters, what is it like 2.5 centimeters to an inch, so it would be 1.25 centimeters...
 

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The holes just looked larger than .5 inch in the photograph you provided, but if it's that small would be fine.
 
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Yeah, thanks for your input and approval Gary, really.
 

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