Bird Room Cleaning Tips---5 Things To Do To Keep Your Aviary Healthy

The cleaner your bird's room is the more chance
it has of staying healthy and living a long and
happy life. Following these 5 suggestions can
make your cleaning easier and more effective.

Avoid Particle Traps----There are so many
places in the usual home and even bird room that
can trap allergens. Wall-to-wall carpet,
upholstered furnishings, piles of books and
magazines, fabric draperies, horizontal blinds,
and the list goes on and on.

Any type of fabric has hundreds of places for
particles to accumulate, and even the most
normal of activities will send them into the air
again. Getting rid of them will allow you to
really take particle out of circulation for good
and keep them from ever going airborne again.

As you add to and replace furnishings in your
bird room and home, think bird-friendly
replacements. Opt for easy-to-launder throw rugs
that are easy to launder. Consider furniture that
can be wiped down with a damp cloth rather than
fabric covered pieces.

Choose linoleum, tile, wood, or other hard
surface that can be mopped clean. And think
about shades that can be rolled up and wiped
clean and vertical blinds as options that will
allow more particles to fall to the floor.

Say No---Saying no to just one more bird can
mean that the bird(s) you have already adopted
will have a better life. As a bird-lover, it's
probably very tempting to take every homeless
bird under your wing. But depending on the size
of your space, continuing to add birds past a
certain point makes it nearly impossible to keep
conditions healthy.

"The more the merrier" rule does not apply in
this situation. Offering fewer birds a good life
trumps having a ton of birds that you are unable
to care for properly.

Clean Often---How often you clean will be your
call based on your situation. Trust me, you'll
know if you need to clean more often.. Some
people are able to clean every couple of days,
and others feel they need to clean every day and
sometimes more than once a day.

Your frequency will depend on the number and
type of birds you have. Those with powder-down
birds such as African Greys, Cockatoos, or
Cockatiels may find that more frequent cleaning
is necessary to keep up with the incessant white
powder that these parrots produce.

A clean room means that the dust and dander
count remains low all the time. Your room
doesn't need to be able to be able to pass the
white glove test, but almost.

Clean Smarter---One of the best ways to really
take particles out of circulation is to use
water to clean. Adding water to the mix with a
damp mop or cloth makes the particulates too
heavy to escape into the air again and gives you
more of a chance of permanently eliminating them.

A vacuum with a HEPA or high efficiency
particle arresting filter is also an excellent
way to make sure that what is sucked into the
vacuum cleaner stays in the vacuum cleaner. Keep
the broom and dust mop out of the mix and opt for
the vacuum cleaner.

Filter The Air---Regardless of how smart or
frequently you clean, particles will get into
the air. Particles just come with the territory
when you live with birds. The only way to
reliably keep the air clean is to filter it
continuously.

HEPA filtration is best because its only
by-product is fresh air. There are no ionized
particles or ozone levels to worry about.

This is the type of filtration that hospitals
use to insure clean air. This type of filter
must have proven that it is able to eliminate
99.97% of airborne particulates that are .3
microns or greater.

Together, these 5 steps can take you closer to
providing a wonderful life for you avian
friends, and a healthier life for all who live
with them.


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