Disenfectant

[joebryant]

This post is just too good to resist...

Make your chickens gargle with it and rinse their mouths with it right after you brush their teeth.

 

[bigjohn]

Well, this has been an entertaining post to say the least.

My idea of the listerine was to clean with the birds still in the cages. Seems much safer than spraying any type of bleach in the waterers, feeders, etc. It cleans, but does not hurt the birds to breath it or drink it.

I use bleach to clean cages and items when there are no birds around.

Oh well, guess that mouth wash idea wasn't so good after all! LOL.

John

 

[SpringChickens]

You can always use some form of alcohol such as rubbing alcohol or ethanol.

Why are you trying to disinfect while you have birds in the cages? They're just going to get it dirty again anyway!! (seriously, the reason most people disinfect is to prevent harmful bacteria from cross-contaminating... i.e. having hatch A contaminate hatch B. )

 

[bigjohn]

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I use auto waterers in some of my cages and they can get very dirty. They are time consuming to disconnect and remove from the cages, so I like to be able to clean them without having to be concerned about hurting the birds. I am sure a bit of bleach would not hurt and have certainly used it but the mouth wash as a disinfectant seemed like a good idea in certain instances. I like to clean the wire in the cages, too, periodically from poop and blood and whatever else might be hanging around without having to remove all of the birds.

Since I eat the eggs, I like to at least have a very good and clean source of water for my birds.

 

[emilyweck]

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Me too!

 

[K-Chick]

for a quick clean I've even used the clorox wipes.

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

does not vineager kill any germs
I always used apple cider vineager 2 tbsp per gallon and when cleaning the waterers and incubator trays I put back in them the ACV and it kept calcium deposits out of incubator trays and chicken waterers were not scummy

I used bleach for disinfecting
it is much cheaper than mouth wash an goes a lot farther

 

[lindseythefork]

Diluted bleach isn't going to harm your chickens, just don't put them in the coop when everything is wringing wet. Even then it wouldn't be a big deal.

I don't see why you would use Listerine, unless you wanted your coop to have a minty fresh feeling.