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Help - Why is My Bird so Messy? We have answers
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| We get calls and emails all the time with people asking "why is my bird so messy?" . It's important to understand the "mess" on your kitchen floor is really meant to be the forest floor.
Birds are meant to sow seeds and spread them throughout their natural habitat. One of the best examples I have are small ponds in the middle of nowhere. You'll be driving on a summer day and see fisherman with fishing lines in a small body of water. Have you ever asked yourself where are the fish coming from? Bird Poop - that's where. Birds will eat fish or fish eggs in a "mature" pond or lake , fly elsewhere & deposit the undigested fish eggs in another perhaps smaller body of water. Fish will hatch from these eggs and so it goes. Because of their high metabolism, parrots generally poop every 15 minutes. Combine that with husks from bird seed, feather molt and dander - well I don't have to tell you. Yes birds are messy - we can help. Here's a some things you can do to reduce bird cage clean up chores.
Of course at-the-end-of-the day you still do have to clean so here's some great stuff to help you through your journey with your birds. |
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Hi,
Our 2 SI Eclectus' aren't to messy with food going Outside of their cage, but they like to sit on the front of their cage door when it is open and poop on the floor. For a year we have been placing news paper on the floor to catch the mess. It works but ends up sliding around the floor if you step on it. Well in a moments enlightment I thought of looking for the roll of the plastic carpet liner used in the entrance of the house. What a God send, If they poop on the mat is is so easily cleaned and if it isn't caught early it is still very easy to clean with spray cleaners. The nice part is that for $12 I got about 10-12 feet which will do the front of the cages 2 times. Cheap, effective and easy to clean...it works for me!
Thanks for being so user friendly,
John A Ruglass (a happy customer)
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Hi, I found your article on reducing clean up chores to be very insightful. I too began laying newspaper on the grate & also crinkle up 6-7 sheets that my U2 likes to climb under and rearrange, etc. (our paper's ink is made from soy which is safe and doesn't dirty his white feathers) It works great. I have used the plastic runners too. Now I have taken off the seed guards which saved my kneecaps but enabled my GSD to stick his head in and feast. So I cut Plexiglas sheets and used thin strips of Velcro and blocked his access. It also helped keep more of the mess in but he still threw a lot out to entice the dog to come over by him. I was scolding the dog and chasing him every 2 minutes because he also tried to eat the pieces of wood the U2 chewed up, (he's just 1 yr. old). Then it came to me...fireplace screens! Target had reduced them down to $3.74 at the end of February. I used 3, one on each side and one for the front which overlapped the other 2. They stand 8" from the cage , so now he can throw all he wants, it doesn't get through or over, the mess is contained & you can't really see the mess. It actually looks nice, better than baby gates. The cost less than half of what a gate would cost. This seems to be my winner! My house is now calmer, safer and cleaner.
Love reading all the blogs.
Linda Lee Kristbaum
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