Are there any parrot safe cleaners?

My parrot will soon be moving in. The problem is my Girl friend loves everything to be cleaned with chemicals. Does anyone know of parrot safe cleaners or maybe homemade recipes?

Vinegar. I love Sol-u-guard disinfectant by melaleuca but not all melaleuca products are safe. In facet noting with actual melaleuca in it is safe.


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Many of those heavy cleaners are in fact bad for what you are clearing. With the exception of very hard surface products like Glass, Ceramics, and 'some' metal surfaces like Stainless and some powder coated surfaces. Most of the other surfaces will weaken with repeated use and it will become every more difficult to get them clean. Never use a heavy cleaning product on stone surfaces!!!

In addition, most also (in the fine print) suggest that the cleaner should be used in areas that are well ventilated! You also will see warning about keeping the product away from small children, pets and adults with lung disorders.

My Mrs' is much the same, but she long ago found that when cleaned-up quickly after use, heavy cleaners are just not needed. In her words, a quick early clean-up saves heavy, hard work later. Stoves and Ovens are a clear example of get it done early and with Ovens, never place anything in an Oven with out a dip plate under it!

The 'Clean Scent' added to most heavy cleaners is nothing more than that, a scent! And, those Scents can be just a dangerous to a very wide cross-section of Adults, Children and Pets.

I clean a lot with fresh lemon juice.

I've read that even vinegar can be hard on their little systems. I figure I'll just never clean my house again once Future Bird arrives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [emoji23][emoji23]


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i've read that even vinegar can be hard on their little systems. I figure i'll just never clean my house again once future bird arrives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [emoji23][emoji23]


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ROTFLMAO - love good humor!

LeaKP made me a lemon juice convert.
Water, paper towels, and like Mrs. Boat advises... fast cleaning when possible.

I use Pet Focus cleaner. This: https://www.mangopet.com/category_s/23.htm

You can use it with the birds in the room. I use it to disinfect the floors in the aviary, walls, mesh, cage, toys, perches, as well as on a their giant apple tree branch. You don't have to rinse it off, so that's really convenient for my purposes. If I'm cleaning their toys or perches, I'll have them (the toys and perches) soak in the cleaner for 10 minutes before thoroughly rinsing them with water, but for cleaning the cage, walls, floors, giant branch hanging from the ceiling in the aviary, I don't bother rinsing with water.

With most cleaners, you need to: take the birds to a separate room, wash everything before even using the cleaner (what's the point of the cleaner if you're supposed to wash their cage before using the disinfectant?), thoroughly rinse with water, let everything air dry for an hour, then finally you can put the birds back in their enclosure. With the Pet Focus, you can buy the concentrate, figure out how much cleaner you need for X amount of water, and it'll last a couple years. You don't have to worry about rinsing all of the cleaner off their things, and you don't have to worry about fumes. The only time you'd need to worry is if you were keeping the bird in a puny, air-tight room and accidentally filled an entire bottle of the concentrated solution on the floor.

Anyways, it's almost completely odourless (it smells less than lemons or vinegar), it's non-toxic (you should still avoid spraying it all over their food), gentle (I've got some of the undiluted stuff on me before, and my skin didn't melt off), and kills pretty much every pathogen (AIDS, rabies, SARS, salmonella, MERS, flu, fungal stuff, etc.). I've used it for well over a year now, and my birds don't have any problem with me using it near them. I'm paranoid when it comes to their health and safety, so I wouldn't be using it if I didn't trust it.