|
I have decided to sell a few bird's at the stafford show
in June 2009 as long as everything goes well. I have sent an e-mail
to the parrot society tonight to find out everything i need to
know such as cost etc.
I was impressed with this years show and i want to be
part of next years show, so I've started to prepare things now.
Bit early you might say but i'm eager and i don't want to leave
it to the last minute.
So I've started building some display cages these are
not exhibition/show cages. And also my bird's are still breeding,
I've put a few more pairs together, so far i have 8 pairs all
doing there business.
Anyway the display cages as i will call them, i started
the build this weekend, I'm not a carpenter and i'm about as good
at woodwork as a budgie is. almost
I went out and bought some wood today and some supply's
from my local wickes store.
I then got a few old bird cages and cut them up so i
could use them as fronts.
Well in the above pictures i cut 4 pieces of wood from
9mm ply, all were 7 inches wide. 2 pieces at 18.5 inches and 2
pieces at 12 inches long also there is the cage front i cut up.
I then marked out a square hole which was 100mm x 90mm in one
of the side pieces which was cut out for the entry door.
Then i nailed it together using thin nails.
In the above left pictures i used 2 square pieces of
wood, one screwed flush to the outside and the other was nailed
and glued with enough gap to hold my cage front the bottom was
almost the same idea except the outer piece was a bit taller just
for looks. Next i cut some perches inserted them into small wooden
blocks and glued and screwed these to the back wall.
The back wall section was cut from 4mm plywood and nailed
into place with panel pins, The squareness was achieved with a
good cut back panel then the door hinge was screwed on.
All i have to do now is to paint them and fit a door
catch and carrying handle once i've done this i will post more
pictures when there finished, I have chosen gloss black as the
outer color and the inside will be finished in white.
MATERIALS USED
9mm plywood and 4mm plywood, sheet size depends on how
many you build
box of panel pins and thin nails and pva glue
tin of black gloss exterior wood and metal paints, small
brass hinges and latch. Also i used old cage fronts
and any tools you fancy buying while your in the store
.........More Coming Soon!!!
 
Iv 'e finally painted these cages black on the outside
and white on the inside i have built 5 altogether and i have got
2 old ones as well that i bought years ago so all i need now is
for my budgies to keep breeding and then i can sell them at next
years parrot society show, if you click on the pictures they should
enlarge. i used a cage front on one of them.
When its a nice day i will put them together and take
a group photo of them all.
|
