Great idea for cage cleaning!!

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I have not steam-cleaned Scotty's cage yet, but it did pretty well with Scooter's grate. Scotty's I find wipes up pretty well with Poop-off wipes, though. Although I'm pretty sure I have teh grate installed upside down and when I do a full up cleanup I'm going to check that theory. It has a grooved surface in the front to back bars of the grate and I am pretty sure they feel smooth underneath. I find it way easier to clean Scotty's cage and grate than Scooter's, but I have no way of knowing if that's the difference in cage material, bird species or diet because all are different Truman must have sticky poops compared to Scotty!

[TheNzJessie]

i wash the grate of my lorikeets cage with hot shower water, the removable head lets the water come out like a water blaster and then i use a brush to get any exceed poop off as for his actually age it weights 20KG and is a mission getting downstairs and up again what i do is in the morning i wipe down any huge messes around the edge of his cage (before the poop turns to concrete which happens within 24 hours) so using hot water and papers towels i can keep the cage very clean and i find dismantling his cage a lot easier and taking it downstairs in pieces once a month and then putting it back together (i finally found a use for when i learnt how to put his cage together 55 times for pet store supply...) i also just wipe it down when ever i see any messes while im at home doing 30 second cleans more often it a lot better than one every few days in my opinion the poop is a lot easier to get off and it not as much of a task

[Becco Lunatico]

Great suggestions here! Being Italian, I keep having daydreams about olive oil applied to those problem areas...any info out there on that issue?

Thanks guys. I sure am enjoying the information I get here!

[lotus15]

I used to steam clean grates, but now I just line the grates with newspaper as well (or remove them). Much easier and cleaner in my opinion

[Kyle]

Will a high pressure sprayer work?

[remington]

remove the grate, or place newspaper on top of the grate

[cetan]

For my budgies flight cage and my Pionus cage I put newspaper on top of the grate, easy to pick up and dispose of and they don't spend much time on the bottom. But my green cheek is another story, the one time I tried it with her I came home to a war zone, chewed up paper everywhere - how she can fling it that far is a mystery to me. So her cage still just has paper on the tray under the grate. The grates on all cages slide out and with a little maneuvering can be cleaned in the kitchen sink or the bathtub. Before I put paper on the grates I would clean them daily with a nylon scrub pad.