Chicken boarders

[annettec]

Well the WIR is nearly there !

Slabs are down and panels made just all needs screwing together !

Will try and add some pictures later

I would like to put some natural wood perches inside. Is there any rules about the kind of wood you can use as I know with parrots/cockatiels you should only use apple wood?

Also how much approx do people pay for a bale of the Auboise/Hemcore ?

 

Thanks again

[Snowy]

No rules about wood for perches - they don't nibble the wood like parrots do. I use old christmas trees, strip the branches and use the main trunk for the perch. Aubiose is about £8 a bale from my supplier (or at least it was last time I bought some - probably last summer )

[ali-s]

I paid £10 for a bale of Hemcore 2 weeks ago. I need to find a cheaper alternative.

 

I've got a couple of branches from a Spruce tree in my WIR, the girls ignore them

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've no idea what the branches in my WIR are . They happily perch (and poo ) on all of them though. They also like the broom handle and often sleep on it .

 

I pay about £8-9 a bale for Easibed. Hemcore had gone up to about £11 last time I looked .

[Plum]

I paid £8.50 for a bale of Aubiose a couple of weeks ago. The branches are Leylandii, willow and tree with pale leaves. They don't peck the branches except an old rotten log which they love. It's leylandii and they are going for the insects.

 

Show us yer run

[Patricia W]

I pay £9.95 for Aubiouse. It's a pound cheaper at a horsey place about 30 mins drive away but doesn't seem sensible to travel that far for the "saving"!

 

Tricia

[annettec]

Thanks everyone great advice as usual !

[Seagazer]

I've got the branches and trunk of a lovely, beautiful, gorgeous camellia bush that someone managed to kill They don't bother trying to peck it at all.

[chickyhazel]

We put any branches which seem suitable in the cube and they love them. In fact, the only way they will go up the ladder is if we put a branch up it for them to walk on no clue what the branches are from

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've also got a piece of skirting board and a fancy shaped length of wood from a skip in our WIR .

[Tutti Frutti]

Lying on the floor, I've got the trunk of a buddlea (sp?) that had to be cut down to make way for the WIR and lots of pine branches from the local woods

 

One is about 8ft long and goes from floor to shelf. I cut off the sub-branches but left mini stumps there, which is good as the girls use them for grip (all the bark's long gone so it's very smooth). Ah, here you go, an old photo... the horizontal perches are ballustrades from Wickes for £1.42

 

Edited April 5, 2010 by Guest

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Aha, that's what my unidentified length of wood is - a ballustrade . Thanks, TuttiFrutti .