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Hi!
What can I say my birdroom is finished at last; this room has all the
faults taken out from my last room, it has been built with more thought
and the birds comfort, plus ease of use by the bird keeper. When building
a bird room its not a question of how many cages can I stuff in, you
need a lot of storage space as well, this room has 18 cages, 12 for
breeding and 6 for transferring fledglings before going in the off spring
flights where they will stay until they get their adult colours. I have
storage under the bank of cages, under the sink plus a wall mounted
cupboard, when breeding stops I need to put the 12 breeding boxes away
in theses spaces. The best thing about this bird room is the sink and
preparation area, this is the first bird room I have ever had with such
a luxury, my birds plus my wife will benefit from this, no more seed
around the kitchen sink in the house or traipsing seed in and out when
I come in for water, I can now make all my soak seed and leave it out,
clean all the drinking vessels and feeding containers, I have an electric
kettle to boil hot water when cleaning cages, plus I can wash my hands
after handling the birds. All the hard work putting this sink in and
laying the waste and fresh water supply has paid off.
The running of the bird room is all done with time switches, I have
a full time job to do, plus children to look after so I can not be there
at the right times to switch things on and off all the time. The main
lights are timed to come on just before it goes dark of an evening and
go off at midnight, giving me plenty of time to feed and water, just
before the main lights go off at night, I have a red night light which
comes on ten minuets before the main lights go off, this red light stays
on all night until daybreak.
I have the heating on a time switch, so the heating comes on in the
evening and stays on through the night until about 9.30 next morning,
the heater has a thermostat and is set only to come on if the temperature
drops to freezing, it may not come on at all in the slotted time, but
its there if the temperature does drop, this timer I only use in the
winter months. The extractor fan is timed to come on twice a day for
an hour each time, this is long enough to change the air in the bird
room, this will make a healthy environment for the birds, I have it
come on an hour after the heating is timed to go off plus an for an
hour in the afternoon, two hours before the heating is timed to come
on. The extractor fan time is extended to come on for, four hours in
the afternoon in the summer months. The birds have a radio playing 24
hours a day every day.
Having every thing running on time switches, the birds seem to get us
to things happening, like at night they all start to roost when the
red light comes on knowing the main lights will go off very soon, plus
an other advantage of running everything with time switches is when
you need to ask some one to look after the birds for two weeks while
you go on holiday, all they need do is feed and water, the room will
look after it' self.
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My preparation area, this part of the birdroom is one of the
best things I have done! already its making life much easier,
when inside my birdroom I don't have to leave until all the feeding
and watering has been done, everything I need is in this area,
soap, disinfectant, eggfood, kettle, dishes, Hoover, hand towels,
ect!
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One thing all bird rooms need, is
plenty of storage spaces, these are the drop down cupboards I made
under the
cages, I like to use old sweet jars to put all my bits and bobs
in, I get the jars free from my local sweet shop, they are glad
to give them away, you can put millet sprays in, coconut fiber in,
cuttel fish bones in, and many other things in, it's a good way
of keeping things clean and vermin proof. |
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