- Hey everybody, Jamieleigh here from BirdTricks.
And last year I made a New Year's resolution
to gift my birds,
actually at Christmas time, it was when I did it.
My gift to my birds was a brand new set up.
It was also a gift to myself, to be able to just do better.
As you guys know,
I lost my male Galah a while back now
and ever since I lost him,
since there was no reason given to me medically
of why he passed away,
I have just made it my mission to do better
each and every year with the care of my birds.
And so with that came my new trailer.
So I'm gonna take you on tour
of our brand new traveling trailer for our parrots,
as well as my new studio,
and my new quarantine room with two aviaries.
So I will tell you all the details, my checklists,
why I got what I got,
what's in each set up and all the companies and brands
that I used to do it.
So, here it goes, check it out.
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Okay, so first let's start with the travel trailer.
I've met a lot of people,
especially my freeflight students
who now want to equip a trailer
and wanna know all the details of what we did,
the cages that we use,
why we chose the ones that we did and everything that we did
to our travel trailer to make it awesome,
and self-reliant on the road.
So let's check out the trailer.
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So, for starters, I just wanna warn you guys
that we have had our share of travel trailers for our birds,
big and small, had different traveling carriers
of all sizes, all different things going on.
And we finally have found our 2021 version of it all,
and something that we feel really, really proud of.
Our trailer is a 12 foot cargo trailer.
It is just a general cargo trailer,
it started with nothing in it,
we made everything inside that you see.
Now we have this trailer fully insulated,
which was a major game changer for traveling on the road
and maintaining the temperature inside the trailer.
We do have plenty of vents in this trailer as well.
And we have done skylights in the past
that we definitely regretted due to leaks.
So we don't have any windows or skylights,
or anything like that in this trailer,
but we do have a nice lighting system.
The cool thing about our lights in the trailer
is that they run off of battery,
it doesn't have to be plugged into anything
in order to give the birds light, which is pretty fantastic
when you have a nine hour drive day.
A couple of my must haves, as far as our setup goes,
is a thermostat to tell you the temperature of the trailer.
This is a must.
I also put a baby monitor.
Yes, a camera live feed,
where I can see what the temperature is
in case I want to know that it has dropped
or gone up significantly,
then I can change the air conditioning and or heat system.
So yes, that brings me to my next thing.
This entire trailer does have both AC and heat.
It can run off of a generator,
which is attached to the front.
And the generator is a dual generator,
so it can take both gas and propane,
which has really saved us in a lot of places,
and just made it so that we don't rely
on being able to plug in somewhere.
One of my other favorite things about this trailer set up
is the little mini fridge.
Now this mini fridge was actually thrown out by a hotel
because it freezes instead of refrigerates,
which was perfect for me
because I keep all my seasonal feeding in there.
And I like to keep my seasonal feeding system frozen
until I thaw it for use.
So we actually travel with one of those ice chests
that you can plug into your car.
And we use that for refrigerated goods.
And then we use this little mini fridge and we actually,
it's just a little freezer,
but it's one of my favorite aspects of our trailer.
Now you may notice that all of the cages
have clamps on them,
and that is so that trays don't go sliding out
while we are in motion.
So if you notice all those clamps,
that's what they are there for when we're parked
and staying somewhere for awhile,
we can take those clamps off.
And for this trailer set up,
we went finally for all stainless steel cages
and a huge thank you
and shout out to Prevue who made this completely possible.
Their cages are beautiful,
and one of my favorite things about their design,
especially for the larger cages that we use for our Macaws
that are on the right.
We like cages for traveling that are tall,
so that Macaw tails do not get dirty and gross
and broken up during travel.
So we really like cages that are on the taller side,
like longer than they are wide for travel specifically
to keep the birds feathers looking nice.
The other thing we really like about these
is that all the feeding stations
are on the front of the cage.
And so we don't have to sacrifice space
to be able to feed the birds,
and they each have two dishes off of these cage designs,
which I absolutely love.
Now, the ones on the left,
we weren't as lucky with, as far as that design goes,
those feeding stations are on the left side of those cages,
so all except for the one on the very far side,
we do have to go in through the front
and change those dishes,
but we were able to change our feeding system in the fact
that we put in these rotating feeders,
where we can twist the cup off and pull it off,
we got all stainless steel dishes as well.
The next cage I wanna talk about is our cage
that's actually four small cages all in one.
This is from A&E Company,
and I really love this,
again because all the feeding stations
are right out the front on a rotating feeding system,
plenty of dishes.
And the other cool thing is the storage underneath.
So that's usually where I keep travel carriers,
or lots of pellets and things like that,
since we're using airtight containers
to travel with our pellets,
we also bring our own bedding because a lot of the places
we stay are just little cabins
and you kinda have to bring your own pillows and blankets,
and all the things.
We keep all of our own newspaper in here,
trash bags, extra water for all of the birds, treats,
I have my aloe in here, I have blueberries seed mix in here.
Plenty of toys, our treat bags, our camera bags,
all the things are in the trailer and all have a spot to be.
So I try to include everything,
as you'll notice our first aid kit, extra dishes,
in case there's nowhere to wash dishes at the moment,
I always try to stock paper towels, baby wipes,
all the cleaning things that I may need.
Well, I hope you guys absolutely
loved seeing the travel trailer.
And hopefully I answered almost all the questions
that you would have had.
The game changer for me is really having our own generator,
that saved us because in a lot of places,
we haven't been able to plug into power,
which is a big bummer
when you're worried about temperature of your birds.
Another cool thing about the travel trailer
is that we never have to worry about where we stay
if they accept pets or not,
because we know that we're fully equipped
to handle our own animals.
And luckily at some of the spots that do allow pets,
we can bring them in, in their travel carriers.
So it kinda makes it awesome.
I also make sure to bring a huge spray bottle
and plenty of aloes so that on our flight trips,
I can give our birds a bath and make sure
that they feel just as taken care of on the road
as they do when I'm at home.
Okay, so let's move on to the new studio.
I'm so excited for you guys to see our new studio.
We have used it for a couple of videos already,
we're mostly using it to produce new courses.
And then there's the quarantine room, so come check it out.
- [Cameraman] All right.
- This is where we film a lot of our Patreon videos.
This is where we do our podcasts.
This is for our green screen stuff.
Then we even have backgrounds stuff here.
More stuff.
The studio is definitely Dave's brain baby.
He came up with all the little nuances
that we needed in the studio when it came to lighting
and different curtains and all the things
that are in there are definitely of his mindset,
because he is really the producer behind a lot
of our videos and all of our courses.
So the studio is pretty awesome.
Now the cool thing about the studios,
attached to the studios is our quarantine room
is what I'm calling it.
I had it painted blue to feel nice and airy.
It has a big garage door that slides up
and lets all the fresh air in.
And I can actually wheel these custom aviaries
right out onto the deck that I had built off of the studio.
Now this is probably my favorite part
because it allows the birds to get nice sunshine
and sunlight, and it makes it easier for me
to get into that studio and clean.
So, I can really do a better job
when those aviaries aren't in there.
So the aviaries in my quarantine room
are my new favorite aviaries.
They were built by Corners Limited,
and I am obsessed with them.
They are six foot by six foot by seven foot tall,
and Corners Limited was able to powder coat them black
for me, install mother rotating feeding system
that I'm obsessed with and have in my other aviaries.
So I actually mailed them those systems
and they cut the aviaries to size and everything
and put them and fitted them in there.
So, huge shout out to Corners Limited,
they really do customize to what exactly what you want.
The other cool thing that they did for me
is I asked if they could mimic what I did
on my other aviaries that I use to push in and out
of my garage space and put these aviaries on wheels.
And they went above and beyond.
They got awesome casters,
these aviators are so easy to move around,
they wheel effortlessly,
and I couldn't be happier with them.
If you guys are looking for custom built aviaries
definitely check out Corners Limited.
They go above and beyond,
their customer service is fantastic
and they're just good people.
And I really enjoy teaming up with companies
whom I've met the person or people of the company,
and just believe in what they do
and believe in the people that they are.
So Corners Limited is definitely that for me,
you guys should definitely check them out
if you are interested
in any sort of outdoor or indoor aviary,
especially if you want it custom,
because they can pretty much do anything.
All right, guys,
I hope you enjoyed this tour of some of my newest setups.
I'm sure you'll be seeing them in future videos
as I share birds transformations with you
that have to do with these different setups of mine.
And hopefully these answered all of the questions
that you may have.
If you're interested in any of the products
that you see in my videos,
such as the bird toys, the bird pellets, the bird food,
all of that can be found on my website @birdtricks.com.
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