Building your own bird cage.

Nala

Hi everyone,
I'm thinking of moving my budgie & cockatiel to a bigger enclosure but I can't afford to buy a cage. Has anyone ever built their own and would have any advice/photos?

Thanks

Nala

Sigma Force

Hubby built this one for our budgies it worked out a lot cheaper than anything in the shops, the most expensive part is the wire. The wire on this is an inch wide but it should be 1/4 inch esp. if little mices wander about your house occasionally.
This one is for sale because we are in the middle of building an avairy, the only bummer is it has to be collected. It would suit budgies not fantastic for cockatiels but may do the job if they spend most of the day in free flight.
3 foot long.





What you could do is build one floor to ceiling in a corner of a room, birds need to be above your head to feel comfortable so the higher the cage the better for them.

Nala

See my two spend most of their time in the cage, so I'm looking to build them a bigger cage because of that. I'd like one that could be cat-proof, hard when a cat can claw its way up the wire and pull the whole cage over.

Sigma Force

The one in the pic is cat proof (obviously as long as the door is shut lol) it's made of solid untreated white pine. So if you could build yourself something with a thick timber and the 1/4 inch aviary wire the heavier the wire the more expensive it is but also the heavier the wire gauge the more cat proof it is.