Wow! It has been a long time. Much has changed. There's a hard floor in there now. And more budgies and cockatiels!

Thank you! 😊

Actually neither are angry. Both were just very excited. Jack (the smaller bird shown atop his cage) was later found to be completely blind. He was missing an eye (it was collapsed from some kind of severe impact - likely being hit or thrown against something), which we of course knew wasn't functional, but we later found his other eye to be completely occluded by a cataract. He is "dancing" in place with excitement. A normal bird would likely be flying around the room but of course he couldn't fly because he couldn't see. Rasa, the Amazon, gets quite wound up. He wanted to get out but since Jack was out of his cage, Rasa had to stay in his cage to keep them from potentially harming each other. At the time this video was made, all three birds were still in quarantine in this room together and had to take turns with "out" time to help us prevent injuries. Jack unfortunately passed away the following December, taking a huge piece of my heart with him. We also lost little Ariel to old age not long ago. Rasa is still with us to this day, and hopefully for many years to come. He still gets wound up like this, especially when he and his "woman" (our own Congo African Grey, Megan) have their daily "out" play time. He's also VERY loud if they are having out time and I move to another room to get work done. His contact calls - designed to be heard across the rainforest - are EXTREMELY loud. He's quite animated, but I adore him, even when he's making my head throb! <3

Thank you! <3

Happened to my budgie. Rip banana

The fan's in the facility are all completely disabled and cannot ever be turned on. The birds do like to play on the one in our main "bird room" by landing and flapping wings to make it slowly spin. NO powered fans with exposed blades (ceiling fans) are allowed in the facility for safety reasons. We are so sorry to hear about your sweet Banana. :(

Thank you! This flight is actually made from two 5' x 7' flight cages from Natural Inspirations Parrot Cages (naturalinspirationsparrotcages.com/products/walk-in-aviary-large-110-x-62-x-80). The end section of each is curved, and makes up approximately 6" of length so you lose about 1' when you remove those curved sections to bolt the two together, but it's still a very large enclosure.

We have replaced the floor with hard floor, we use rags to wipe surfaces, a broom, shop vac and scraper to clean the floor. Toys and perches that can come out easily go through the dishwasher.

Buddy actually was like "Whoo hoo!!! WOMEN!" We call him "Casanova" - he's romanced every female in there at one time or another. He's our proof that not every bird follows that "monogamy" rule. Heheh.

It's natural browse, for enrichment. They don't really "eat" the leaves and flowers, but enjoy destroying them. Parrots like to shred and chew. This is the kind of activity they would do in the wild.

It's the thoughts that count. Prayers and encouragement can come from anywhere! <3

Yes! Our way of saying "thanks" to those who made this possible!

naturalinspirationsparrotcages.com/products/walk-in-aviary-medium-86x62x80 <-- it's actually TWO of these, put together (with the 1/2" bar spacing option). Alone they are 7' long and 5' wide, however there is a curved section to each side, and those have to be removed when attaching them together. Each "curve" is about 6" wide, so when you take off two of them, that shortened it by an entire foot. The structure as seen here is 7' wide and 9' long (7' tall).

@@MardensArk Fantastic!

It was about $2500 for both of them (they retail for $1499 each) so we got a good deal. They absolutely deserve it. We try to give them as much space and autonomy as we possibly can.

At the time, the floor was carpet (ugh!) and a pain to keep clean. We put down paper but it got chewed up, blown around and the carpet was a mess. We ripped it out and replaced it with a very smooth durable hard flooring that we can scrape, sweep, vacuum and mop. MUCH nicer! You can see the new flooring in the newer videos.

It's such a spectacular space... I love to see birds being able to fly... it's the main thing they are meant to do .

We do recall training with our birds. The littles, of course, are in their aviary and cannot get to the fan. In our 'bigger' birds room, there is an unpowered fan they use as a "merry go round" by sitting on it and flapping to make it slowly turn. We use long dowels to get the birds to 'step up' to get them down, but if a flighted bird doesn't want to come down, it's not easy to convince them. Sometimes we just have to wait until they are ready to go back to their homes. Putting a super-special tasty treat in their home will often entice them to come down and go back.

We will be adding toys and crepe myrtle branches very soon at our yearly "cagescaping" party, and will post a video!

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kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJxkqK2Wy5PKYIk.html Today was a perfect day (in between storms) to cut the full blooms off the crape myrtle and turn the aviary into a jungle! This will last MAYBE a day before they have the branches stripped! <3

Mine gets fresh tree grass every day in spring summer if illnes from outside yes its a risk but green as food as playground as vitamin as looking forward to, good life illnes can uppersit, bee from indoor life's some breeders here uses special indoor lights as u v light, if birds don't get sun, i give oranges, offers fruit or green, or grown corn 24 in water, corn then, grow in soil or else,

Finches are sweet little birds. I hope some day you can have an aviary. It's amazing to spend time with them in a setting where they are free to interact - or not - as they wish. Wear a hat, though, lol.

naturalinspirationsparrotcages.com/products/walk-in-aviary-medium-86x62x80 - it's actually two of these. The brand name is Centurion. We took the backs off of both and attached them to each other to make one large 7' x 9' flight.