Building a Large Aviary. (The Pheasantasiam)
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The Aviary (The Pheasantasiam) was completed in Jan 2012 and was designed to hold a pair of Lady Amherst Pheasants. We have not got the Pheasants yet, so it currently holds 5 Java Sparrows, 2 male Quails (Bert & Ernie) 2 female Turquoisines (Seven & Xena), and a pair of Cockatiels (Fry & Leela).
UPDATE April 2013: There are now a pair of Lady Amherst Pheasants, 4 Cockatiels, 5 Turquoisines (Grass Parakeets), 10 Java Sparrows, 2 Coturnix Quail and 2 Laughing Doves in the Pheasantasiam... and they all get along wonderfully.
UPDATE 28th July 2014:
We started with shadecloth so that when the pheasants get spooked and fly straight up (which pheasants do) they would not injure themselves. Above the shade cloth is plastic roofing and wire mesh. Due to the design of the aviary the cockatiels can't actually reach the shadecloth to chew through it. Our tiels are well behaved and wouldn't do that anyway :)
that's so cool! I used to work at Animates Mt Eden in Auckland before I moved back to the Netherlands. Your aviary looks really good and I'm sure the birds are loving it. Bit jealous of the plants you have in it haha. The colder climate over here doesn't allow us to use such fancy plants ;-)
Aviary is in New Zealand. The roof is covered in a high grade commercial Shade Cloth. This is so if the Pheasants get spooked and fly straight up (as they do) they will have something softish to bang in to. I have also above that put wire mesh in places as well as plastic corrugated roofing for rain protection over some areas. Thanks for watching, any more questions don't be afraid to ask.
Very Nice 👍
Awesome build man!
I have to make a bigger Avery and found your video. Very nice.
Very nice man!!! Where is the aviary located (country)? and what material did u use for the roof?? Thank you much.
4 of our birds came from Animates. I collect Palms so I had to have palms in the aviary. The video: "Palms and other plantings in our Aviary @ The Pheasantasiam" shows all the plants in the aviary.
Thanks for watching.
Would a build like this also be suited for quails? We have a small lifted-off-the-ground aviary, but it has 0 plants and stuff, so I'm planning on building them a new aviary😊
Whoops I now see Bert and Ernie are quails😅😂
We currently have 14 button quail.
Thank you.
If you want a laugh, try turning on the Automatic Captions by CZcams... they have nothing to do with what I am saying. If you want the Real Captions, select "Full English Captions.
Thanks.
You can check out a long video showing construction and birds, day to day aviary stuff by searching for the video: "Large Aviary. Walk in Aviary Overview, Construction, Plantings, Birds @ Pheasantasiam
hey, I'm in nz to. do you reckon it's cheaper to build an aviary rather than buy one? yours looks amazing man! very jealous
Usually it is way cheaper to build it yourself. For what I spent building this one I would have only been able to buy one around 1/6th the size.
I live in NZ and have 2 cockatiels, I wana to build a 3m long by 1.5m wide and 2m high (I am still figuring out the exact dimensions), just wondering what and where you got the metal posts from as I want to build my aviary similar to yours but on a smaller scale for a school impact project. I want to be able to use it year round and possibly add a few finches later on. Any tips on what materials I could use and how to go about using them (I am a complete novice at building) would be great!
There are no metal posts in the construction of this aviary. My other aviary czcams.com/video/WOFLN-kPf7E/video.html is stainless steel construction. Where in NZ are you?
North of Auckland Near Orewa and about 30-40 minutes drive from Albany. Oh my mistake, I thought the posts were metal, what wood did you use? Did you put the posts in cement? sorry for all the questions but I no nothing about building (I will get help from the school hard tech department).
The timber is H4 treated so it won't rot in contact with the ground. I didn't use concrete as a personal challenge to try and build a large structure that wouldn't require concrete. If you are building a smaller aviary you could easily get away without concrete. I built the sides below ground around 500mm for support and prevent rats. There is more info about how I built it and the materials here: czcams.com/video/Waf2e3rAGHg/video.html I got the mesh from RD1. The timber you could get local to you. Steel North Shore might be a good place for you to source steel if you choose that building material, but it is not necessary if you only house small parrots and birds. Good Luck and feel free to ask me more questions.
awesome
Very Nice!
Is it easy to transfer cocktail birds from home cage to outside cage?
This is nice
If u would make net surround your patio it would be better than this aviary. Because u have enough space.
I assume you are talking about my deck. That deck is totally different now and does have an aviary on it.
Do u sell avaries
no
Is it possible to get the plans for this aviary?
TheForsakenSailor Not really as it is mostly in my head. I must have drawn up a few things while I was contemplating the aviary, but I don't know where they are now, sorry.
Caryotagigas Thats alright. Thank you for taking the time to reply :)
How far apart are the wall joists spaced?
Shane Gilligan The spacing of the uprights was determined by the width of the mesh, which in this case is 900mm
Caryotagigas My mesh is 4' wide or about 1200mm. The height is 10'. I'm and a little worried about the mesh being too flimsy or being to flexible when its pushed on. How is it with the 900mm mesh? Do you think 1200mm would be excessive?
Shane Gilligan I originally wanted to use 1200mm mesh just so there was visually less barriers to look through. Unfortunately it is no longer a common size in NZ so I couldn't find a 1200mm mesh that had the right hole spacings. The mesh I have used 915mm 19mm square welded, galvanised made from 1.25mm wire. I have used this on both my aviaries and my chook run. I am happy with it. Getting the tension on the mesh so that it does not seem to flimsy is difficult, even with the 915mm mesh, you get very sore fingers. The width of the mesh also determines how strong the materials used in the structure are. Wider mesh = larger timber to hold it all together. I have some 1800mm mesh on the roof this aviary above the shadecloth. Good luck. Feel free to ask me more questions and I will try and answer them if I am around. Also watch my new Aviary build video (if you haven't already) it might give you some more ideas.
What grade of wire mesh did you use?
marshall886 The mesh is 19mm square, 1.25mm diameter galvanised wire. Thanks for watching.
you only have " Shadecloth " ??? on the roof , why didn't you put wire on before that ?? the cockateils could easily chew through shadecloth if they wanted to.
Everything was going fine till you mentioned bert & ernie, I just had to like it ,, thanks pal...