anyone bath

dose anyone let there birds have a bath in winter or while pairing up just i let my birds in the aviry today while it was raining and most of them laid down with wings up trying to get wet ... so im going to try with a little tray of water in ...

why a little tray of water phil put a large bath in and let them bathe wont do any harm

i like to bathe phil

Mine all have a bath most weeks. I have an old sheet i put down under the bath. I only put this down as my floor is thick ply but get slippery when wet.
Go on Phil give um a nice bath.

i treat my birds same as me a bath every sunday, except this last week too cold

Steve i bet you still use a tin bath in front of the fire

mine have,nt had a bath ,been kept in

dark_chequer wrote:

Steve i bet you still use a tin bath in front of the fire

yes its bril

peel bros wrote:

mine have,nt had a bath ,been kept in

Can't you put a bath inside for them Ray?

thats what i do put the bathin the aviary

dark_chequer wrote:

Mine all have a bath most weeks. I have an old sheet i put down under the bath. I only put this down as my floor is thick ply but get slippery when wet.
Go on Phil give um a nice bath.

amanda, how do you keep water from going all over the loft.......what sort of sheet do you use ? i once put the bath in for them and the floor got soaked so never did it again.......

a bit of water wont harm it david just dry it up

yes in the aviary,s for the stock and the hens which are in the yb end which has a aviary but the racing cocks have,nt one

ive covered my tounge and grove floor with chipboard ian and when they bath they splash water all over the place......then when i lifted the bath out i spilt some water out and the floor was soaked, i was worried it would warp the chipboard and wet was rising up the walls.

same ere david just put chipboard down too in aviry too but i give it a light coat of paint the fence paint just to make slight water proof ... and doing inside the loft over weekend new boards over the floor and white washing out inside ...

yes phil, ive done all my floors in chipboard and was going to line the walls too but decided not to as i think it could give mice somewhere to nest in.......going to leave the inside bare wood too as ive found that the slightest bit of damp (which most of us get at some point ) stains the emulsion and within a few months looks scruffy......with the bare wood you dont need to re-do it every year, although clean white walls do look very nice....

well im going to white wash so it looks clean for the year then was going to gloss it all out once ive got new roof on after raceing done then it re fleted and sealed tight ... just as i cut seems when i got the loft and just put felt over the seems and then painted them with felt paint fingers crossed im dry so far ... but was going to extend the roof bit longer at the front and back as there is 12 incs over hang on front an 2 in on back
so was looking to do the roof soon as but with all snow

your a busy man phil

well was just going to cheat on the back an put guttering on an drain water but me dad said might as well get it one and save u in long run and little philip sai just leave it the way it is its dry no need to fix

think if it was me phil id do what you said and fix a gutter at the back with a fall pipe to take the water away......

i have a 3ft overhang to front of loft and 6" overhang on back dont have any problems

yea well ive just put some old guttering up and it seems better thanxs to a empty house i ripped it all off and put it up today all so i put a small paddle pool up in the aviry for the birds and they loved it for over a hour in and out ...

thats one of the good things about having an aviery phil, the birds being able to bathe in safety......
need to get mine built but dont get the time.....

lol i thought i wouldnt have time to do this one till last week end it took me hour and half to do and painted even coverd me platform with felt and i had a good few hours doing stuff to loft ... next one is to level the ground in front of loft for grass or gravel ... then it done till kids make there mind up where there doing vegie patch

credit to you phil, i know you have been working hard with your loft etc to get it done........... well done.