Simple rummage box
To create a rummage box, it is actually sufficient to use unpainted wooden trays with a sufficiently high rim, which you then fill with suitable materials.
Material:
- Wooden tray 25 x 25cm (edge height 5cm)
Rummage box with seat branch
If you wish, you can also equip them with a perching branch to offer the budgies a place to land or perch.
Tool:
- Hand drill or cordless screwdriver
- Wood drill bit set (Ø 3/4/5/6/7/8/10mm)
- Bit – screwdriver
Material:
- Wooden tray 25 x 25cm (edge height 5cm)
- Branch fork in the desired shape (hazelnut, fruit trees or birch).
- suitable branch pieces as perches
- Countersunk wood screws of appropriate length (depending on the thickness of the branch)
- Possibly washer for stabilization
Instruction:
- Pre-drill the branch fork for fastening to the bottom of the wooden tray and for the seat branches according to the screw diameter.
- Drill a hole in the centre of each of the seat branches and then screw them to the branch fork.
- Drill a hole for the screw in the desired place in the bottom of the wooden tray.
- Screw the branch fork to the bottom of the wooden tray with the screw and, if necessary, a washer (under the bottom).
Coconut – rummage box
Material:
Instruction:
- Fill the coconut cups with ZigZag paper or alternatively (or at a later time) with nibbling material.
Filling the burrow box
Basis
As a basis is recommended, for example, beech wood granules or also another bedding suitable for budgies.
Material for nibbling
Mix a suitable nibbling mixture for budgies into the base, but an over-litter or nibbling litter can also be used well for this purpose.
- Blütenmix mit Kräutern (Birds and More)
- Überstreu “Nature-Feeling” (JR Farm)
Additional nibbling material
To round it all off, you can add suitable nibbling woods and/or flowers.
- Mountain meadow hay
- Nibbles “Fruit mix” (Elamto)
- Nibbles “Apple Tree” (JR Farm)
- Eucalyptus leaves