BUDGIE L0V3R 0 Posted September 10, 2012 Member ID: 7,327 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 39 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 376 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,285 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/06/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Hey all, I am not sure if this is the right place to be posting this question but yeah. I have had my aviary on a dirt floor since I have had budgies which is a couple of years, just recently my budgies came down with a disease of coccidiosis ( I think thats the name ) and I lost a few of my budgies. I am now planing on putting in a concrete floor so that the problem never arises again. i was planing on having a drain in the center of the cage so that I could just wash the avairy out with a hose but a friend that has a drain has told me that his drains have been clogged by the seed so what do others have in there aviary and could you please help me out with some ideas to be able to clean it? Thanks Link to comment
dillster 0 Posted September 10, 2012 Member ID: 6,849 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 33 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 268 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1,815 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/08/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 27, 2017 Birthday: 05/05/1999 Share Posted September 10, 2012 If your drain is a good size100mm or so there would be no cloging you could have like a plug and tale it out when you hose it out and refit it when done so you would have an open pipe there fore no clogging Link to comment
robyn 0 Posted September 10, 2012 Member ID: 5,241 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 86 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,887 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 10,750 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 19, 2018 Birthday: 21/12/1946 Share Posted September 10, 2012 If you can sweep up most of the seed husk before you hose out it should be okay. ( If your aviary is big enough for that) I do mine every weekend and dispose of husks I scrape and sweep out then hose if it's needed. Link to comment
A'SHAAR 0 Posted September 12, 2012 Member ID: 7,301 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 32 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 170 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 21/05/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2012 I do the same as Robyn. I scrape and sweep my concrete floor twice a week and hose it out if it gets really mucky in wet weather. No need for a drain if you have a very slight slope on your slab...works well for me. Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted September 24, 2012 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Share Posted September 24, 2012 No need for a drain if you have a very slight slope on your slab...works well for me. This is what I was thinking, too. If you had a drain, wouldn't that be an inlet for mice or snakes to find their way in? Well, if you kept it plugged like Dillster suggested, when you weren't hosing it down, then I guess they wouldn't, would they? Don't forget, that even with a concrete floor, you birds can still get coccidiosis in wet weather. But I think the concrete would be easier to clean, to minimize the danger. Link to comment
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