kme33882
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- Sep 17, 2021
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- Parrots
- Eclectus Parrot: Nico (male)
Sun Conure: Charlie (male)
B&G Macaw: Blue (male)
I’m going to be 100% honest here. I hate cleaning bird cages. It’s time consuming, and I don’t enjoy scrubbing dried up 
for 5-10 minutes.
I wanted to see how others do this as I’d like to be more efficient, and still get the job done.
This is just how I do it:
I cut up old t shirts to clean my parrots cage. I used to use paper towels but they always broke open and then I’d get on my hands. Not to mention I was spending a ridiculous amount of money on paper towels.
I pull apart, or pull out the staples of magazines every few months for the bottom of my parrot cages (I use magazines for my cage liners). My family, and friends have been donating their magazines. This takes hours to tear apart magazines, and my hands hurt afterwards. I started doing this over days now. With having 3 parrots, and 3 cages I need quite a bit. With magazines going digital, and not even offering hard copies of issues… I’m going to eventually figure something else out. I know eventually I’ll have to get precut cage liners if anyone has suggestions here please do make suggestions. Are they expensive? Do they function any better than magazines?
I use Nature's Miracle Bird Cage & Surface Cleaner to clean the cages. It helps with the tedious scrubbing for minutes on end. If someone uses something that may magically clean a macaw cage quickly. You are a life saver… you post that below. I clean this cage daily, and it never fails that it takes more time than I’d like. My other 2 aren’t as bad.
for 5-10 minutes. I wanted to see how others do this as I’d like to be more efficient, and still get the job done.
This is just how I do it:
I cut up old t shirts to clean my parrots cage. I used to use paper towels but they always broke open and then I’d get
on my hands. Not to mention I was spending a ridiculous amount of money on paper towels. I pull apart, or pull out the staples of magazines every few months for the bottom of my parrot cages (I use magazines for my cage liners). My family, and friends have been donating their magazines. This takes hours to tear apart magazines, and my hands hurt afterwards. I started doing this over days now. With having 3 parrots, and 3 cages I need quite a bit. With magazines going digital, and not even offering hard copies of issues… I’m going to eventually figure something else out. I know eventually I’ll have to get precut cage liners if anyone has suggestions here please do make suggestions. Are they expensive? Do they function any better than magazines?
I use Nature's Miracle Bird Cage & Surface Cleaner to clean the cages. It helps with the tedious scrubbing for minutes on end. If someone uses something that may magically clean a macaw cage quickly. You are a life saver… you post that below. I clean this cage daily, and it never fails that it takes more time than I’d like. My other 2 aren’t as bad.
