Hey All,

 

My mom uses the Self-Cleaning stove feature on our oven. Its where the oven heat up to like 500 and locks the door and basically cooks its self clean.

 

Any way, the stair to upstairs are off of the kitchen, once up stairs, you go to the back of the hall and there is my room. Thas where I keep the budgies.

 

I was reading an article on the Bird Talk website that says when using that feature, your birds should be taken to a neibors for 24 hours.

 

Do you think they are okay in my room with the door shut and window open?

 

What is the danger from?

 

Do you use this feature on your oven?

I have a self-cleaning oven. When it was new, I did the self-clean thing once, but my birds were moved to my room and stayed there for several days, I kept my door closed the whole time and was worried about them. Other windows in the house stayed open plus the fan stayed on. Most ovens are coated with teflon. That's why they are so easy to wipe up. When you use the self-clean feature on a new oven you are overheating it which burns it off. Probably so you don't kill yourself from eating food with teflon fumes baked in it. (not really-I'm not sure of the real reason but I do know you have to self-clean a new oven before you use it) It will stink up the house like crazy - it gave me a horrible migraine from smelling that stuff. It is truly awful. That is the only time I've ever used it, and I will not use it again. It's just as easy for me to wait until the oven cools and wipe up anything that might have bubbled over. If it's burned on, I just put a wet sponge on it to soften it up, and it wipes right off. I guess since your mom uses it alot it probably doesn't smell up the house anymore. I'd definitely take precautions by keeping them in your room for a day or so, and ventilate the rest of the house. I'll bet the reason BirdTalk's site recommends moving the birds is because of the danger from overheated teflon coating.