Cleaning food and water dishes with vinegar on a daily basis
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Sally
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Re: Cleaning food and water dishes with vinegar on a daily b
Bill at fabulousfinch.com sells the Virkon-S. I love this product for disinfecting.
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Lisa
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Re: Cleaning food and water dishes with vinegar on a daily b
I also just use hot water and regular dish detergent. For things with tougher to clean areas such as tube waterers, I run them through the hottest cycle on the dishwasher.
Really, if you tried to make their environment totally sterile, you'd have to disinfect the bars, the floor, change the paper a zillion times per day, etc. The only time I would really go all out with disinfecting is if a physically ill bird had used the dishes previously. I know a lot of sources say to use bleach but it makes me nervous to think such a potent chemical could be left in trace amounts for the birds to ingest or inhale.
Really, if you tried to make their environment totally sterile, you'd have to disinfect the bars, the floor, change the paper a zillion times per day, etc. The only time I would really go all out with disinfecting is if a physically ill bird had used the dishes previously. I know a lot of sources say to use bleach but it makes me nervous to think such a potent chemical could be left in trace amounts for the birds to ingest or inhale.