Why do every body clean

I was wandering why a lot of people clean out every day? in my day we cleaned out onece a moth if they were lucky and we did not see all the sickness ther is around today is it that a lot of people are getting brainwashed
you even take people wash your hands after this and that or you might catch this, with all the stuff that is around hiv cancer heart atac and everything ell`s
I think the world is going abit over the top.back to pigeons you have to give them this it will make fly faster if they go any faster they will catch thear self up coming back

i clean out 6 days a week never clean on sunday, but monday i clean and disinfect perches nest boxes, mainly to check droppings daily

hi ginger, i clean out my perches every day but have laysoft horse bedding on the floor in the stock shed and ob section.....i like to clean the ybs out every day partly for myself and partly because i think its better for the birds ie not as dusty etc, altho i have heard of fanciers who never clean out who win out of turn so i think its mainly down to personal choice.....

re. the world going mad ginger.......i totally agree but dont want to say too much on internet.....

Ian Im not saying its right or wrong but why do you clean out every day you said to cheak the dropings, I clean once a week
and i can tell stright away if the dropings are good or bad, mind I am home all day

i used to have easi bed on floor but took it out too dusty, its just my preference cleaning daily

i like the bedding steve but the worst thing is when it sticks to your shoes and it gets dragged all over the garden and house...... wife keeps saying whats this stuff all over? i just tell her ive no idea..........

yes i noticed all over outside

David by the sound of it you dont have lot of ventalation if you have dust you haven`t got it right

Well I used to be mad cleaning, everyday maybe 3 times. but I stil had sick birds sometimes. I now clean perches everyday to check droppings, lofts get cleand twice a week stock loft once a month but has deap litter on floor. I kno a man locally to me never cleans out and has muck on floor from 4 years ago and he doesnt get any more sick birds than anyone eles, so Im not convinced clean lofts are the healthy ones.good management and cleaning of feeders and drinkers more important I think than the floors.

rudderfett wrote:

Well I used to be mad cleaning, everyday maybe 3 times. but I stil had sick birds sometimes. I now clean perches everyday to check droppings, lofts get cleand twice a week stock loft once a month but has deap litter on floor. I kno a man locally to me never cleans out and has muck on floor from 4 years ago and he doesnt get any more sick birds than anyone eles, so Im not convinced clean lofts are the healthy ones.good management and cleaning of feeders and drinkers more important I think than the floors.

i agree martyn drinkers and feeders cleaned are main things

Ginger169 wrote:

David by the sound of it you dont have lot of ventalation if you have dust you haven`t got it right

yes ginger you are right, i really should get some vents in each door at least..........when ken came to visit for the first time i asked him if there was anything more i should do to my lofts, he said he thought they were ok apart from not enough ventilation........i usually clean out and then ue floor whitener but have to be careful to brush as much up as i can, dont know if its wise right now to start altering my loft but it is one job i really need to get sorted...

David you cant have enough ventilation, My attic loft has excellent ventilation , and has 1 window, the other day I left it open as the wind was coming that way, It was blowing a gale in the loft even the birds at the back of the loft on the perches were being buffeted, the feathers on them were all over the place, thats ventilation!

need to get my aviery sorted as soon as poss for the stock shed...........have the door open during the day with a wire iner door but not as good as an aviery.

It is everyone to there own, but i like to clean out the loft everyday in the racing season, and every week in the closed season

But yes i know fanciers who don't clean out fromone year to the next and still win very much

i give fresh water every day, and in the water i sometimes add vitamins. garlic or something else.....but a visitor to my lofts who is a good flyer and has visited some top lofts once told me that some of these top flyers drinkers have green in them and the birds are winning out of turn...........makes you think doesnt it ?

David a fancier in my old club Colin he never changed the water and the water fountains were full of algi but he won a number of prizes or i should say was never fair away

i think as long as the loft is dry and the droppings are dry then its fine.i find during the winter the dropping tend not to dry out so i clean more during the winter.al in all i usually just give the loft a good clean out on a sunday.i scrape around squeekers bowls every couple of days but clean out the drinkers and change the water daily.i have a cloth with diluted bleach and give the drinker a good clean.

Don there is a fancier in my club who never cleans anything realy, his drinkers are green, he said hes frightened to clean them, he topped the fed 3 times last year???

i can,t stand a dirty loft it does my head in i clean every thing and spray
every thing with bleach . i know it wount make my birds any better but it makes me feel better
i tend not to clean out every day in winter due to time . but in the racing season every day if i go to other peoples lofts and they dont clean out it makes me want to clean there loft for them .

hi kev, read in a pigeon mag today the same tip you gave us the other night, vinegar and salt in the bath water....... thanks ill be trying it text time.

[quote="rudderfett"]Don there is a fancier in my club who never cleans anything realy, his drinkers are green, he said hes frightened to clean them, he topped the fed 3 times last year???[/quote
no excuse for dirty drinkers would he drink from them ,i dont think so

DAVID wrote:

hi kev, read in a pigeon mag today the same tip you gave us the other night, vinegar and salt in the bath water....... thanks ill be trying it text time.

hi david , thats good like i said it was mike staddon in the BHW who gave that tip ive been using it now for 3-4 years i was handling all my birds yesterday even my young birds in the nest not one lice on the birds with the old birds sitting on the young
it must rub off on to the young birds and keep them free from lice and the feather texture is brilliant
all for the cost of a couple of quid .

hi kev, i read it in a mag called "the winner" in an article on a belgian fancier and remembered what you told us the other night.......what sort of measures do you mix?

DAVID wrote:

hi kev, i read it in a mag called "the winner" in an article on a belgian fancier and remembered what you told us the other night.......what sort of measures do you mix?

a couple of inches with the vinegar and a good hand full of salt .

thanks kev, will work out cheaper than the bought pigeon bath products ill bet..........and better by the sounds of it.