I was just wondering how you all clean and maintain your breeding cabinets/Avairy's?

 

How do you breeders with lots of birds cope with the daily jobs?

 

Every day I do water and seed/millet/soft food/paper change in breeding cabinets, Every other day I do seed top up and water change/veg in avairy....

 

Every saturday morning I take all food containers out and wash them, vacuum avairy and breeding cabinets then disentfect and hose down, I only have a small set up compared to some of you and it can take me hours.... :rofl: It must take you guys the whole day!!

Some jobs cannot be everyday depending on your lifestyle or work commitments.

 

Aviary concrete floor gets scraped and vacuumed twice weekly. Water and seed and food attended to daily.

 

Breeding cabinets.........food attended to daily or twice daily.

Full cleaning of breeding cabinets is a once a week saturday task but more often if needed to. I put a thick wad of newspaper in the bottom of the cages and I pull out the top layers as they get dirty and do a full replacement clean and sort and vacuum on Saturdays.

 

I work from home so checking and sorting of birds also happens between my work breaks during the course of the day.

 

I keep an industrial vacuum cleaner in the birdroom just for the aviaries and birdroom and birdroom sometimes is done twice a day, sometimes every couple of days depending on how busy I am with work. Sometimes I have to keep lights on in there at night and do cleaning after teatime. Birds dont mind...they sing along with vacuum cleaner noise.

 

Birdroom floor is tiled ( **BEFORE fitting out )

 

so sweeping and vacuuming is real easy. Mopping may be a once a month thing.

 

Most of my cabinet setups are vertical melamine units I made with cages sitting in the shelved sections.

 

To clean I slide out the cage and vacuum and clean the melamine sections and replace the cages. I pull out the trays in the cages and empty seed debris and clean trays and replace newspaper liners. As already stated I have thick newspaper in the bottom of the cages also.

Edited June 14, 201015 yr by KAZ

WOW!!!! :rofl: Is the coffee cup full Kaz !!

 

I will never complain about cleaning again .............................

 

And I will put a thicker layer of paper so I just need to take off the top sheet..........

Once I finish the corner cabinets I will have 40 breeder cabinets. Thats enough I think

Looks great. I love the tiles. That would be easier to mop and disinfect than just concrete.

It also makes it look 'homely'.

Edited June 14, 201015 yr by rachelm