Hello!  For the past three weekends I have been preparing my yard for a new larger aviary in my yard to help foster rescued Pigeons.  I currently have three pet Pigeons, two I personally found in Pacifica called Dovee and Jan and Mandee a homing pigeon I was fostering that I adopted.  I also am fostering Teddy (King) / Chase (Blind Racer) and two Homers who fell in love in my office called Miles and Macy.

My current Aviary is a sturdy metal structure 6 feet high, 4 feet wide and 7 feet long.  I can put 4 to 6 pigeons, 6 only if they are the right temper for my Two Strong Boys Dovee and Teddy.  Mandee gets chased all over if I put her in the smaller aviary. This Aviary once my new on is built will be available to disassemble and move to a new home that can foster Doves.  The cage is more suited for smaller birds really.  So hint hint anyone who is thinking about adding a Dove Foster Aviary, MickaCoo has two, one already available!

The first steps to getting ready was to move my existing Aviary and I went ahead and did a deep clean on that.  The following weekend I have 5 friends over and we had a digging party and dug out 8 by 14 feet, 7 to nine inches deep.  Elizabeth from MickaCoo came and the others were good friends Mike, Linda, Debbie and Denise (catered to us with food all day).  I have been working on moving some plants and dirt around and we have made two trips for supplies (one or two more to go) and I have ordered the pea gravel.   My Brother Tom (Carpender and Contractor) is doing the entire build out donating his labor whilst I am at work on Wednesday and Thursday.  The weekend I will most likely be working at getting the pea gravel in, maybe paining the exterior walls and a trip to buy materials to install some perches. and shelves.  The final wire and roof will be done as my brother has time from the weekend into the next week:)

I hope to have an open house in the next month or so to see the aviary and meet all the pigeons.  

The link to my photo album which I will update as the project completes is:

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All the best to all and no matter what make it fabulous!

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Cheryl
A Reiki Master - www.cheryldickinson.com
A MickaCoo Volunteer - www.MickaCoo.org
A King Pigeon Rescuer - http://cheryldickinson.com/kings.htm