cleaning out

[Tony C]

Cleaning out, some people clean out more often than others, some people are handicapped and cant manage it, some people see it as a chore, some people like deep litter. What category do you fit into ?

[Guest]

Tony

 

Being as we live in a very arrid climate on the High Desert Plateau in Central Oregon, we normally scrape out once a week, but in the flying eason, we feed the race birds on the bare floor, so it's every day as we like to sit on the floor with the birds and see what they're eating

 

When we lived in Washington State (which is wetter and rainier than Lancashire) Twice a day was the norm.

[Tony C]

I used to clean out twice a day but due to problems with my back I had to find an alternative. I now use easibed on the floor and this gets changed every couple of months, the perches and boxes are still done daily.

[perk]

one good scrape and brush out a day is enough for me

[Guest]

I scrape out the boxes twice and day and put a bit of easi-bed in the box to stop the droppings sticking to the box and I use easi-bed on the floor but still spend ten mins or so cleaning the droppings out of it. Then once a week I scrape all the boxes and spray them with Duramitex or Virkon-S and use a bit of floor white to dry the boxes. This is the worst time of the year with all those big cr-ps the hens do after sitting on the nests.

[Guest slugmonkey]

I fly deep litter

[Guest jason]

twice per day! .

I always have scraper in hand ;D

[T_T]

I think whatever suits your pattern of working life has to be adapted to your birds. For instance I used to work 7am to 7pm and my pigeons saw the scraper every three days when my change of shift pattern allowed. I wouldn't scrape out before 7am because of the neighbours or after 7pm because of the young children being in bed.  Things are different now of course because I've retired and all the time I feel OK they will be done daily.

I read Bert Brasspennings writings and I'm sure it said somewhere that he dosn't clean his youngsters out from the day they are weaned over, untill racing ends and gets excellent results.

[snowy]

at least once a day i scrape out, but mostly twice, in the morning b4 work & evening after work, then have a good one twice a week

[NANCYVIEWLOFTS]

IVE TRIED GRILLS IN THE BOX AND ON THE FLOOR IVE TRIED DEEP LITTER BUT IM BACK TO THE SCRAPER TWICE A DAY AND THE BLOW LAMP ONCE A WEEK WITH THE YOUNG BIRDS ITS A SEMI DEEP LITTER UNTIL THE WEEK AFTER THE FIRST RACE

[Diamond dave]

Boxes once a day - sand on the floor raked in every day and sieved once a week

[sapper756]

ALL 3 LOFTS ONCE A DAY EVERY DAY

[Guest]

Deep litter: but still rake-off perches and nest boxes daily - bagged & binned; rake over the floors once a week - rake-off bagged & binned; litter freshened with lime or stalosan alternate weeks. Litter Bag tied & binned for local authority 'landfill' - fortnightly  collection.

[Guest speckled]

;D ;D Same here Jason alway have a scrapper in the hand, most woman shop for new make up ;D ;D i shop for new scrapper ;D ;D. Like to have a clean loft,mind you during the race season i do the widow cocks & hens twice a day, while thay are out flying i clean out.Speck

[jimmy white]

i only have a small 8by 6 shed with an 8by 6 aviary the aviary is scraped every day and the boxes scraped every day , the shed has a deep litter of shavings which are bone dry and changed regulally[ birds cannot get out ,due to housing rules.

when i raced them, i had 4 lofts all scraped out twice every day

[Guest]

;D ;D most woman shop for new make up ;D ;D i shop for new scrapper ;D ;D.

 

 

I think lady-pigeon fanciers have it made!  

 

 

All that handy stuff lying around the loft ... stuff thats fine for other things too.

 

 

Take the blow lamp for example, great for getting the make-up off .........    

[Guest speckled]

;D Lol Bruno. ;D ;D ;D ran out of Beauty Gas :P red faced Speck.

[zetlandlad999]

Will do the boxes once a day, and the floor every couple of days, use a scattering of silver sand on the floor.

[andy]

TWICE A DAY DURING RACING, ONCE A DAY IN WINTER 365...

[westy]

floor at laest one a day and perches evrey day.

[Tony C]

To date the poll 'How often do you clean out when racing' shows that 90% of us clean out at least once a day. Do you think keeping pigeons in such an environment could actually have an adverse effect. Children today suffer from more allergies than ever before, the boffins put this down to households these days being kept too clean. I'm told years ago fanciers in the main used deep litter, they tell us their birds were hardly ever Ill. By cleaning out daily are we taking out of the shed the very thing that pigeons especially young birds need to boost their immunity levels.

Just a thought.

[Guest marvin]

hi ya tony i clean the perches and the boxes every day but the floor is deep litter, horse bedding i have found this to be very good , clean birds but with some imunity

[westy]

WHEN I AM RACING EVREY DAY AT LEAST ONCE.

[Guest jason]

your not wrong tony, we have three children, harvey, 6, grace 4, and max 8 months, we sterelised everything for harvey and he gets every bug going where as grace eats mud and worms in the garden (eeeuuugghh!)  :X and never ails a thing so yes I think you have to let them build up an immunity to bacteria.

 

P.S. I am told worms are full of protein lol

[snowy]

at least once a day i scrape out, but mostly twice, in the morning b4 work & evening after work, then have a good one twice a week

 

p.s.

myself & westy take it in turns. ;D

thanks westy