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Jen Jane’s Beautiful Budgie Aviary – DIY Parakeet Home

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Proud parakeet parent Jen Jane shared a photo of her beautiful DIY aviary with me on Facebook and I was so excited when she agreed to tell me how she put it together. This beautiful budgie home was a walk-in closet, which Jen emptied, repainted, and repurposed as a home for her six parakeets. She put vinyl on the ground, and uses a car ice scraper to help with cleanup (six birds are messy!)

She told me the closet originally “was a horrible purple colour, so I used low odour paint and painted it white, I then put thick carpet down for insulation, then a thick grey vinyl, I used masking tape and then gaffa tape to secure it down, I drilled holes in the walks and used natural wood branches as perches, and put swinging perches on the ceiling. I bought a large plastic hanging ivy that is normally used for vivariums, they love swinging on it. I put in shelves for food and toys, and a table for veggies.” Since there’s not a window in the space, she hung a lamp that’s on a time switch so that her parakeets get 12 hours of darkness. Below are more photos of her beautiful birbs and before and after shots to show you how she created her aviary. Enjoy!

Here’s Jen’s full parakeet flock: Brian, Bowie, ziggy, Mia, the Rev, and Syn.
It’s naptime in Jen’s budgie aviary.
The budgie aviary includes a variety of perches, food and water dishes, toys and shelves.
Before its transformation into an aviary, this walk-in closet was dark and dreary.
Jen’s new aviary looks bright and clean with its new low-odor paint!
This walk-in closet is about to become a perfect parakeet home.
Here’s how the aviary walls look after their coat of low-odor paint.
This is how the floor of Jen’s walk-in closet looked before she converted it to an aviary for her parakeets.
The finished floor in Jen’s budgie aviary.
In this fun closeup on one of Jen’s birds, you can see the fun toys in her aviary.
This is one of Jen’s budgies, Brian.

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