Using Sawdust in Your Bird's Cage

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Springfield, MA Shown: Our traveling aviaries indoors with sawdust below Sometimes due to weather or space, we have to set up our bird aviaries inside the arena buildings instead of outside. Our first preference, weather permitting, is outside by a tree (for shade) on grass. But when the birds have to be indoors,...
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Why Outside Aviaries Have Catch-Alls

   I remember when Dave and I first sep up our Cages by Design aviaries outside, we set up the actual 6' diameter aviaries first. But we still had 2 catch-alls to put up and I thought, Well maybe we don't need those... And boy have I ever been proved wrong since! Really, I was just being lazy because it was a lot of effort to put them up ourse...
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Natural Baths Outside

I get asked a lot if I bring my birds in from their outdoor aviaries when it rains. Well, living in Florida, it rains almost every day at the same time and a lot more in the winter. It pretty much rains all the time! And honestly, it's a hassle to bring birds in and out, back and forth. Who wants to do that? I wondered how they would do the fir...
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