Cleaning out drinkers

[Guest SkyMaster]

How often should i clean my drinkers in my loft should it be every day or once every 6 months or never?

[Guest]

i would do it more often than once every 6 months!! i would do it once a week but im going to get 2 sets of drinkers so when im using 1 set il wash the other and clean them more often, i use vanodine v18 to clean them

[Guest SkyMaster]

iv ben told cleaning them  isnt good for the birds apparently the algae in the drinker helps the birds immunity

[REDCHEQHEN]

As my birds always manage to cr*p in the drinker every day - they get washed out daily

 

[Guest SkyMaster]

Yes i rinse mine daily i mean scrubbing the algae of them

[Guest Owen]

I distinfect my drinkers about once a week with a viricidal distinfectant. And I wipe the widowhood boxes out daily with a sponge soaked distinfectant. The one thing that gets up my nose is the oblong shaped pots. The round ones are great for cleaning but the oblong ones are a pain in the neck. It is dificult to get into the corners.

The one place I do not clean is the Young Bird Floor. I keep that in deep litter because I want them to peck around in the dry droppings to build up their imunity to the sorts of things that lead to YBS. Well that's my opinion any way.

Regarding the algae build up. I think that's fine in running water but drinkers and feeder should be properly cleaned, in my view.

[chichichi]

we have 2 sets of drinkers,, one set is in the lofts the other is in a bucket of bleach and water ,, so everyday they get changed,, we swill the bleach ones then add to the loft,, the one from the loft goes to the bottom of the bucket full of bleach,,

 

We buy cheap bleach and add 4 litres of bleach to 20 litres of water approx..

 

best of luck

 

ant

[Guest SkyMaster]

You might be over steralising them let the algae grow  ;D

[cemetary]

skymaster,

 

You have just posted that you scrub all the algae off them, then you say let the algae grow.

 

Better make up yir mind what you doo, i think you have been drinking the bleach mate.  

[Guest SkyMaster]

Yes i rinse mine daily i mean scrubbing the algae of them

 

you have misread because of my bad grammar i was stating i rinse mine daily i ment scrubbing algae of them in response to sum1s comment nowt to do with the irn bru pal!!  ;D