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I buy a roll of clean, white butcher paper at Sam’s Club or Costco. I cut several layers, putting more layers in the–ahem–heavily trafficked parts of the paper where my son, the Macaw, leaves his “business cards”. That way I don’t have to change the entire cage paper and just take away the top layers as they become soiled.
A great advantage of having white paper is that you can immediately and easily monitor the size, color, number and shape of the droppings. Also, my Bird doesn’t shred the white butcher paper the way he does newspaper. Honestly, when I use newspaper I could easily open up a confetti factory.
The idea of using butcher’s paper is a great one. I have been using newspapers and they are really messy.
I use lemon juice and warm water to wipe and wash my cages. It is non-toxic and has enough acid to clean up droppings and leave the cage and tray clean and fresh.
Another thing I do with my finches is use little plasic containers for nests. When the nests become dirty I take them out, soak them in lemon juice water, wash them, dry them and put fresh hay in as needed. I can wash their polished rocks that they think are their eggs and keep my little birds, fresh and clean.