grahamw59
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Hi Jason. Have a few Quail running about in the bottom and you'll have a steady supply of Quail's eggs for the Mrs. I used to mash up the excess ones and put them in a dish for the adult Zebras to feed to their young.
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Yeah....never enough space. An aircraft hangar would be ideal.
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Managed to find one or two old blurry pics...including some of my other birds as well as Zebras: (I later changed to basket-type nest-holders...which I could buy locally very cheaply, though they'd been designed for a totally different purpose. lol). There were 3 big aviaries. I also built a few dozen double breeder cages, but unfortunately didn't take pics of them, which is a shame considering the many hours of sawing, drilling and hammering it took to make them. lol. The aviary below was 12 feet x 6' x 7' high. The biggest was 12 feet X 8' x 8'. Main frames constructed from Coconut wood and bolted together. Double breeders were 4' x 15" deep x 18" high....constructed from local 1" x 1" hardwood for frames and enclosed in quarter ply. . . . .
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Hi guys, and thanks for the welcome. I'll try to find some pictures and give a little more information in future posts. ...Just working on going back abroad and taking up where I left off, now that my boy is going to uni' and relieving me of my 'human' responsibiliies here. Jason, I was married to a Filipina for 15 years.
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I thought it was about time i had a look at the forum again, as it's been a while since I joined. My interest in breeding Zebra Finches goes back many years (more than I'd care to think about - lol), but I actually took things most seriously when I lived in the Philippines for a few years and bred cagebirds including Zebra Finches on a fairly large scale. I had a couple of hundred pairs of Zebras, amongst other species, and built all my own cages and aviaries...many of which I custom-built for other expats and locals. The climate (very humid and hot) could be challenging and I had to be quite innovative with local materials, but overall I didn't have too many problems. I'm also interested in freshwater tropical fishkeeping. Regards to all...Graham, from York.