colony breeding

[kim1]

last season I bought a couple of chicks for handraiseing off a guy who had about 8 pairs all colony breeding in one large aviary, he just had a heap of breeding logs (probebly 10 or 12) scattered around the back of the aviary, we are shifting soon and will have to build new aviaries for our 2 pairs of ringnecks, I'm wondering if we should just build on large aviary instead of 2 seperate ones, anyone out there have any advise on this, need pros and cons, as I said it will only be 2 pairs, and the genetics of both hens and cocks would mean it doesn't matter if they choose their own mates as I will get the same result either way.

[billspets]

hello kim
it has been know to work but you need room as well as extra nesting areas and try to block the view from one log to the other if possable onece you have it set up you will just have to watch and see if they will excep it being that way
regards
bill

[jeremy]

i would suggest putting them in seperate cages, you can colony breed ringneck but you have to have more than two pairs and have double the amount of nest boxes