What's your 'clean up' routine?

[chelle]

Hi Bitzy! Sounds like youve been dong fine!

Its a great thread for all to see how its works for different people....

Whatever you place as an absorbent in the litter trays - you should only have to sccop out the wet/pooped bits - this will make the megazorb/carefresh/aubiouse etc last longer.....

Most folks here tend to put newpspaer then the litter tray stuff then the hay....
Mine like to eat things - so i ended up hiding the carefresh first - then laying the newspaper & the hay on top of that - I find this works quite well as the hay otherwise sticks to the litter stuff & its hard to seperate & end up throwing it all away....too costly. Now I just have to roll the newspaper up with soiled hay & chuck away - then scoop out only the soiled bits of litter stuff (whatever you use) and then relay paper....& hay.

I do rinse my litter trays out each day as it gets too dirty otherwise....

I disinfect cage & bits once a week - usually sundays!

Mine are going outside soon - so my methods may change ...we will see!

 

[chelle]

Ok, here is mine.

Sunday - Full hutch clean. Disifected. and dried out. Litter trays have newspaper,shaveings and hay in them. (they have 3 litter trays, one downstairs, two upstairs) They have a hay box, with a hay rack over it. The bottom floor of the hutch is lino'd and the top i cover with news paper.

Hi!:wave: Just curious!
What is a hay box?...is this enclosed for foraging?
Do you have litter trays in their sleep areas?
If not - what do you do for those areas?

Thinking of dong a litter tray concept - as if I place just hay there - they may poop & wee....
Perhaps just aubiouse or something along those lines?

Cheers!
Yeah- you do have alot of cleaning out to do! Must be fun to see all the little happy faces when you are done!

 

[bubz_79]

What disinfectant do you all use?

 

[chelle]

What disinfectant do you all use?

I use Pets at home - just cause thats where i adoptedmy uns from - - they were unwanted baby buns....

Its a Johnsons brand I think.

Often though a wash with water - then disinfect & thenn wipe with vinigar if wee has splashed somewhere its not supposed too.....
Rather use natural stuff though - much better for buns i think.....

 

[pigsforlife]

What disinfectant do you all use?

Vinegar! The best cleaner ever, and no harsh, harmful chemicals. I use it for most of my cleaning.

 

[pennypoos]

i thoroughly clean out all litter trys, water bowls and food bowls daily, then every 2 / 3 days i do a thorough cage clean.:wave:

 

[yvette]

A full clean out every other day...this includes 3 bunny houses, a ferret court with 2x2 storey houses with run...and parrot cage.
Takes an hour tops.:wave:

 

[beckie20]

excellent, thanks, this is all really helpful .... and eye opening as to how wrong I've been getting it! :?

Aw, you're not doing anything wrong, you just haven't found the best way that works for you! Only a few people have replied to this thread (compared to how many people are on the forum!) and so far we all do it differently! There isn't a wrong/right way to do it.

I used to have to completely empty the bunnies litter tray completely everyday back when I used to use P@H wooden pellets, they were pretty rubbish compared to the megazorb I use now! Finding the right/best substrate that suits you and your buns goes a long way in helping you figure out what to do and when.

xxx

 

[lildebs]

Interesting thread, I'm too thinking of replacing the shavings with something as in a kennel it's everywhere (they have 2 levels) it blows out then falls onto lower level etc....so those with bigger enclosures kennels/avairies what do you use?
I have 1 litter trya ground level (wood pellets and hay)
and 2 on 1st level same stuff in
and 2nd level just sawdust, they use this level for lounging and sleeping so I don't put anything here trays or hay.
They have a large oval hanging basket in the run area full of hay...other little hangers hung up in run , toilet roll holders etc and willow planter with hay in which ends up sideways on the floor :roll:

Sweep for England and go through lots of hay wastage even though they eat a lot :roll:

 

[Elena]

Vinegar! The best cleaner ever, and no harsh, harmful chemicals. I use it for most of my cleaning.

I use vinegar in the enclosures too. I wipe the lino down about once a month.

 

[p_prod_uk]

D'oh! I've never thought about only throwing away clumpy bits of megazorb - I usually throw it all away!! :roll::lol:

I clean on a Friday/Sat/Sun (depending on what i'm doing that weekend, usually a sat tho) then midweek too.

Litter trays are megazorb and straw and I top up straw as needed.

Sweep up poos inbetween cleans as needed, as all buns wee in the right place but poos are a different story!
Buns are in shed btw

 

[Bitzy]

Thanks everyone ....... thought the bunnies had got the weeing sussed .... but it appears not!

Dizzi seems to wee whenever she sits on hay! So even if there's a stray bit knocking about - there's usually a Dizzi wee there too! lol