Keeping Canaries Outside Aviary

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Keeping canaries outside aviary. Outdoor aviaries are fine as long as you provide a large covered area for the finches to shelter in. After your aviary structure is up you can begin adding aviary equipment such as hoppers. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. You can also mix pairs of canaries with other soft billed small birds such as finches although if kept in a breeding aviary you shouldn t mix more than 2 species.

Bird rooms and aviaries should be looked at as giant cages. You should have about 5 inches 13 cm of space per bird. These aviaries will supply plenty of room for your birds reducing the chance that territorial fights will break out. Never use an open fire a garden brazier or barbecue pan for example.

A heated perch is a good investment to keep bird legs warm. 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. The nights are getting cold now and some days it hardly seems to get light so i make sure the light is on in the inside section of he aviary from 8am to abou. The perch heats up to a gently warm temperature heating the feet and legs of the bird.

This helps keep their blood and tissue in their legs warm and can generally help the bird stay warm. Build an outdoor aviary. For larger aviaries it s usually best to keep more hens than cocks otherwise the cock birds may fight over the hens. As a boy i kept zebra finches and border canaries but after a break from bird keeping of almost 25 years i came back to this wonderful hobby in 1998.

In either case you will have to provide additional heating during the coldest months of the year. The size of your aviary will be determined by the size and number of the birds you will be keeping. To keep the birds safe as well as warm you need to make sure the heat supply is non hazardous. The smoke and fumes from these can kill birds something to bear in mind if you re using said items in the garden and the wind is blowing in the direction of the aviary.

Like the cage covers tents act as little shelters within the shelter the bird lives in. They need the same practical fixtures and fittings but you can work on a bigger scale. It was a visit to the national exhibition in 1997 that inspired my fascination with the crested canary.