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How to build a breeding box for a parakeet. Well most people don't build their breeding
boxes, as they are very readily commercially available. Any pet store is going to have
them, they're going to come in various different types of styles, anything from like a wicker
nest like this guy, which is simply a little wicker wood shavings braided into a nest,
it's got a little hook on the back, you just hook it on the side of the cage. That's for
like really small birds like parakeets potentially and love birds, finches. There's the covered
nests, they guys are a little bit more rustic looking. They tend to be, they come in, this
is a covered form, there's a top to it, provides a little bit more security, little bit harder
to get in and out of, but the birds tend to like those a little bit better. And of course
top of the line would be just a wooden nest box, basically it's essentially a wooden box
with a hole cut in it. The lids tend to be jointed in someway or another so you can get
easy access into it. As you can see, there's a little peg that just sticks in right like
that so that the birds can stand on there and get easy access into the hole. Now sometimes
people will take something like this and modify it slightly. What's very popular among some
bird breeders is to they would take this and they would turn it on it's side and they would
drill a new hole right here for this and they would remove this.