From the article: Cleaning Your Bird's Cage
I always get requests for help with cleaning dirty bird cages in my email. It's true that some messes can be a real pain to clean, and our pet birds don't seem to mind making plenty of them! Share your tried and true cage cleaning tips below and check out what other bird owners are doing to keep their own pets' cages fresh and clean. You may pick up some helpful hints that will make this necessary chore much easier to handle. Share Your Solutions!
spray it down
- okay heres how to do it first you take a spray bottle and mix some palmolive soap NO OXYCLEAN FILL THE BOTTLE HALF WAY ADD SOAP THEN SHAKE I REPETE S-H-A-K-E
- —Guest clover
spray it down
- okay heres how to do it first you take a spray bottle and mix some palmolive soap NO OXYCLEAN FILL THE BOTTLE HALF WAY ADD SOAP THEN SHAKE I REPETE S-H-A-K-E
- —Guest clover
Cleaning the cage
- I just take my bird's cage outside and i just wash it with the water hose . Its very easy:D
- —Guest Sadie
DO IT LIKE THIS
- I like to use the budgies themselves, their feathers are so soft that they get in all the cracks.
- —Guest Juan
Daily and Weekly
- I have an Indian Ringneck named Blue. I line the bottom tray of his cage with layers of newspaper. Daily - Each night I tuck Blue in at bedtime and say our good nights. During this routine, I use a damp paper towel to wipe visible messes off the cage bars and skirt. They drop into the tray and I simply fold up and toss the top layer of newspaper. His food and water dishes get washed and water refilled. This takes about 3 minutes. Weekly - I mist the cage with warm water. Blue enjoys this because I mist him along with it. I let the water sit and dissolve hardened messes. I remove the toys and take them to the sink to be washed. Then I use a bucket of warm water and lemon juice and a sponge to wipe down the cage. Blue likes to be in his cage to supervise this job. When I'm finished, I rotate toy locations and place his dish of foot toys back in the bottom of his cage. This takes about 30 minutes. Simple and easy. I do the same on the budgies cage. :)
- —Guest Paulette
lining the cage
- I line my cage with doggy pee pads, 2 fit perfect, and its very easy to clean after you take them up and throw them out.
- —Guest Patricia
How to clean birs cage
- I vacum in sidemyseed skirt them in cage to pick up poop &seedson bottom then take dirty paper out & putnew paper in & wipe poop off perches with damp paper towel check water & foods dishes
- —Guest Nancy Dorman
Clean Bird Cages
- I use lemon juice, baking soda and water...3 cups hot water, 3 tablespoons of lemon juice , 3 tablespoons of baking soda....stir after each addition..if you have a lot of "poop" to remove...wet down with this solution and let sit and go back and wipe down..it eats it all off and no harm to our feathered friends....works great...I have 11 birds so always looking for the easy way....
- —Guest Brenda Phillips
MAKE CAGE CLEANING EASY I HAVE...
- i went to spotlight and brought the plastic that you put on your table. i cut it to fit the tray and some extra for underneath i used to put stick tape underthen but i dont anymore. everynight i take it out and wash it down with hot water and dish washing liquid and put it back in. a 5 min job and its easy my birds dont chew it but i guess if u have birds that did you could put stones or river rocks around the edge to stop it
- —Guest sarah
Ollie's cage cleaning
- Everyday I use a wet towel to clean the outside of the cage and as for the bottom I remove and clean it withe the towel then I place clean kitchen paper before placing the wire plate..
- —Guest Hadiya
cleaning bottom of cage
- I have a parakeet named Danny when i got him his cage had a wire bottom and a slide tray under that. I took the wire bottom out and i don't put any paper ont the slide out tray. i just pull it out and clean it. then i sprinkle gravel on it and put it back in.
- —Guest Linda
It's in the setup
- newspaper at the bottom and along the bottom edges. Feeders are not attached to the wire, they sit on the bottom where seed can only go into one place - the cage bottom. Lixit water holder.
- —Guest CanaryCage
Clean Cage
- I have a quaker parrot. I line the bottom and sides with magazines, they pull out easy when done, then just a brush and water for the cage. If needed I will use a little of Dr Bronner's natural soap.
- —summershadowtwin
two parakeets
- they love each other. its neet because i use computerpaper in a small cage. two sheets in the bottom pull out tray their names are sam and cat.
- —Guest joseph
cage bottom
- In my cages where I use a grate at the bottom, I slip the tray into a plastic bag. Cleaning time I just pull it out turn the bag inside out and toss.
- —abbyzmom
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