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We have an archery range on our property. We use straw bales as the backstop for the targets. Sunday we replaced the bales in the archery range, then took the old straw and laid it out in the bird yard to help with the muck. The birds absolutely love it. I wouldn't buy the bags of chopped...

My biggest struggle (beyond living on a wetland) is that the entire bird yard was lined with landscaping cloth and we didn’t think it would be an issue so we didn’t remove it before we put the birds in there. I need to get that out of there for better drainage and so the birds don’t eat it. This...

We don’t have nesting boxes either. But the house in the OP video does. I have to say I love our paver floor, and drainage mats would just make it better.

He’s using pea in the run, not the nesting boxes. The nesting boxes have to be cleaned at some point. I personally wouldn’t use pea. I’d do pavers, drainage mats, then put straw on top of that and change it out. That pea is never going to be clean again once it’s used. The poo will dry out and...

If you can’t do the floor drain idea above, make sure your doors are wide enough to get absolutely everything swept out without any raised thresholds. That was our largest frustration was we didn’t account for the thresholds keeping us from fully cleaning it out. The door threshold basically...

I’d suggest that you use 12x12 pavers. I’d also suggest that you dig down half the depth of the pavers to inset them. Invest in a paver lifter or have two people to place them. You really have to put them absolutely straight down to get them to fit. The house door in the video isn’t going to...

The larger the paver, the heavier they are. The bottom of our duck shelter has 1ftx1ft pavers with mason sand to fill in cracks. A 1 inch thick paver weighs 11 pounds per sq ft.