E-coli danger from washing chicken treat dishes in kitchen sink?

I've never washed my "chicken dishes".
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Oh, wait. I don't have chicken dishes. They have a waterer that gets hosed out if it develops algae or gets gunky from poop in the water. Household leftovers get put in a bucket and dumped on the ground for them to pick at. I've never cleaned their feeder. I've never lost a chicken to disease of any kind.
 
I keep a water bottle w/ diluted dish soap & one w/ straight bleach. I'll scrub their waterers & dishes w/ a splash of soap & maybe every other week I'll do a splash of bleach. This is all done outside w/ the hose & in the winter a bit less scrubbing goes on once the hose freezes. When the hose freezes I bring them water in a separate jug.
No washing in the kitchen sink what so ever!
 
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I wash them out in the sink too and only use soap if I have to, I don't want my chicken dishes to be overly clean. I never use soap on the waterers, only a rinse in cold water and I add a little cider vinegar to them when I fill them. Yes, they have a little green stuff on them but I'll save the worrying as they eat all sorts of nastiness outside.
I don't worry about the sink getting too dirty. I'm not a fantastic cleaner anyway so there's often (including right now) a sink full of dishes. None of us are sick all the time, and rarely for that matter.
I wouldn't worry about it unless you wanted to eat something out of the chicken dish yourself after it got moldy or something. I would, and do, base it on visible health. If your family is constantly getting sick, be more careful (or less, depending on what you're sick with), and if it makes you feel good, clean away :)
 
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I've never washed my "chicken dishes".
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Oh, wait. I don't have chicken dishes. They have a waterer that gets hosed out if it develops algae or gets gunky from poop in the water. Household leftovers get put in a bucket and dumped on the ground for them to pick at. I've never cleaned their feeder. I've never lost a chicken to disease of any kind.


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I've never washed my "chicken dishes".
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Oh, wait. I don't have chicken dishes. They have a waterer that gets hosed out if it develops algae or gets gunky from poop in the water. Household leftovers get put in a bucket and dumped on the ground for them to pick at. I've never cleaned their feeder. I've never lost a chicken to disease of any kind.

+1.

I do have a couple of those indestructible rubber tubs that I used for wet mash. Cleaning those consists of throwing them in the general direction of the outdoor faucet and (eventually) rinsing them out. The bouncing gets all the sticky stuff out. ;)

Otherwise, yeah, the ground makes a most excellent "treat dish".
 
I make my own laundry soap using washing soda, borax, bar of washing soap, and baking soda works great I also make a soap for my dishwasher using borax, baking soda, salt and citic acid. works better then anything you can buy. I do not buy any anti-bacterial stuff. I think with all the hype that the news has given people and over use of these things we are just making a super bug. I clean all of the kitchen with a natural cleaner. I also use those throw away pans for chicken treats I recycle since they are aluminium . I think as long as you use hot water and soap and clean your sink once a week you should be fine.


The silly thing about "anti bacterial soap" is that all soap is "anti bacterial." I use the same brand of laundry soap you do. I just cannot stand the perfumes that all but the most expensive commercial soaps have in them. I want my clothes to smell clean, not like a perfume factory. And I'm saving money too. Win/win.
 

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