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how offten do you do a full cleanning of your cages

how offten do you shower down your cages

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  • weekly

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  • monthly

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  • other

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Cynthia & Percy

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I shower down Little Generals and Percy's cages daily and shower down Rocky;s and Baby's cages once a week this is besides changing their paper each day how often do you do it?
 

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I give mine a good scrub top to bottom weekly, but wipe them down every day along with changing the paper
 

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I wash down the cage with soap and water and a washcloth once every week or so. As for a full on shower, that can only be done when its warm enough to use the pressure washer outside, so once every month during warmer times.
 

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I do spot cleaning daily and a good thorough cleaning weekly.
 

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I clean Pico's cage & change the paper at the end of every day so it's fresh when he gets in it in the a.m. I take it & steam clean it about every two weeks or so.
 

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Paper gets changed everyday and I also wipe the obvious mess as I see it.
I want to say I do a full cleaning weekly and I did use to, but lately it's been every second week or so. The cages aren't really dirty though, given the daily upkeep.
 

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Paper gets changed everyday and I also wipe the obvious mess as I see it.
That is pretty much how I do it, I wish I deep cleaned them more. It seems when I do daily small cleans I can keep them clean pretty good.
 

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Same here...weekly cleaning where I wipe the whole cages down....10 of them! lol And daily paper peels and wipe of messes!
 

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Papers are changed daily, and spot cleaning as necessary daily.

For me, it really depends on the bird. My Caiques can trash a cage in a day, so I feel like I clean theirs thoroughly every 3 or 4 days.

My Quakers are spotless .. lol .. so I can go a good 10 days, even longer before I do a complete scrub down, same with my Hahn's .. the only mess she makes is the shredding and wood stuff. They all "poop" very neatly, and rarely hit anything but paper.

Panji, my Patty, is probably in between .. I do a complete scrub down on her cage once a week.

 

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Paper daily, cage when needed - Danny doesnt spend much time in it anyway..
 

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At the moment, a full cleaning is done every week to week and a half to two weeks. It depends on how often I do small cleanings between big cleanings.
 

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Piper would probably stand to be the one I clean more regularly; in fact, she leaves me little choice but to do her cage weekly.

I seriously wonder sometimes if she's not part Lory...
 

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I change the papers daily (sometimes twice a day if needed) and spot clean as needed. I do the deep cleaning once a week. My Sennies cage is the worst, he loves to chew up the papers and basically destroy his cage. The little GCC just about ties with the Sennie with his messiness. The Amazon and the Blue Crown Conure are my neatest birds, they poop in the same spots and don't really tear up all the papers so I could probably clean their cages every other week, but I like the routine I have.
 

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Once a week EVERY week.:p
 

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we do a com plete scrub down of all cages once a week and we change the papers every single day...except Sam..she is a non cage pooper...we still scrub her cage but we dont change her papers as often..once a week for the paper change on her...as she doesnt poop in the cage.
 

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Daily: Papers, light wiping, sanitize bowls

Weekly: toys, perches, sanitize bars and grates

Monthly: all out powerwashing and sanitize (more often in summer)
 

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Daily: Papers, light wiping, sanitize bowls

Weekly: toys, perches, sanitize bars and grates

Monthly: all out powerwashing and sanitize (more often in summer)
Off topic but your Shenzi looks alot like my Roxi!
 

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Wipe everything down each day and do a thorough cleaning once a week.
 

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Spot clean, partial paper change every day.
Total paper change twice a week.
Total clean once a week to week and a half.
 
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