Keeping Canaries In An Outdoor Aviary

I jokingly call it an airlock system but whatever you call it if you want to keep your birds it is crucial.

Keeping canaries in an outdoor aviary. Lots of cosy nesting boxes and ledges in the sheltered or enclosed area of your aviary will help the birds keep warm. Best pairing is a soft feathered frost to a hard feathered intensive canary. A 10 metre wide aviary is a minimum requirement. You should have about 5 inches 13 cm of space per bird.

During the winter an outdoor aviary needs heating if birds like this pied canary are to survive pet finches do not like draughts so even in the warmer months they need a place to escape the whims of the weather. Those who have outdoor aviaries in the south of england will have no problems keeping lovebirds outside those further north or living in scotland will likely have to move their lovebirds inside during the winter months as the cold can harm them. If your canary s are used to being in an aviary with out side flite and inside flite the birds will acclimatize them selves with the weather summer and winter no heating is good for them they will molt according to the weather. Despite their hatred of the cold lovebirds are intelligent and affectionate.

These aviaries will supply plenty of room for your birds reducing the chance that territorial fights will break out. In this video i show what birds can live and even breed together in an aviary. Budgies don t persecute canaries as such but they ll defend their perch or feeding station with a hefty peck budgies have relatively powerful hooked beaks which can cause a lot of damage to a creature as fragile as a canary or any other small finch. If you have space outside you can make a beautiful outdoor aviary to keep your canaries in.

So an aviary that is 60 inches 150 cm long can accommodate twelve canaries. For starters it is crucial that you have some form of door system in place so that you don t simply open your aviary to the world. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. For example if you want to keep finches and canaries you need about 1 or 2 cubic feet for each individual and 6 to 12 of perching space for each bird.

Lots of space is the key if you want to keep canaries and budgies together. The size of your aviary will be determined by the size and number of the birds you will be keeping. You need a small porch area in which you can stand close the outer door and then open the inner door. After your aviary structure is up you can begin adding aviary equipment such as hoppers mineral blocks seed trays perches and so forth.