How often do you 'deep clean' your cage/s?

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I was just wondering how often you all properly clean out your cages. By properly I mean taking it all apart and scrubbing! Today I took apart my cage, took it outside and hosed it off. I do this weekly, but was wondering is this too often? They are cleaned out every 1-2 days so its not as through they are ever really dirty.

Lucy x
 
I never really deep clean as such, i just try to keep up with the disinfectant and a scrub with a scrubbing brush and then do a brush over with a tea towel to remove any form of dampness.
I try to clean the accessories like the pigaloos every week or two as they don't always need it every clean (:
 
We take everything out and clean it every week. In between, their toilets are cleaned. Actually, my bf does most of it. My knee had surgery two months ago and was always hurting before, so I couldn't really do it.
 
My deep cleaning consists of taking the fleeces out and washing them, disinfecting floor and litter trays and replacing newspaper on floor and litter trays. I usually do this once a week unless they get a bit pongy beforehand.
 
i dont think i ever deep clean mine. their fleeces are washed weekly and the correx is disinfected, their cosies are also washed weekly and the litter tray is emptied daily,
 
I clean the boys out every 2-3 days. I Clean out all the lining/bedding and wipe round with disinfectant and wash food bowls. About every three times I scrub all there houses and bits and give a really deep clean so round about once a week.

I think it does need a weekly scrub. I could probably stretch cleaning them out to every four days but it annoys me when the cage looks messy haha
 
MummyAndEthan said:
I was just wondering how often you all properly clean out your cages. By properly I mean taking it all apart and scrubbing! Today I took apart my cage, took it outside and hosed it off. I do this weekly, but was wondering is this too often? They are cleaned out every 1-2 days so its not as through they are ever really dirty.

Lucy x
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i usually scrub out the cage with jeyes fluid and give it a good blast and rinse with plenty of water with my hose everytime i clean the cage out due to calcium urine staining the cage and for germs. I clean the cage and scrub it out every 3-4 days x
 
I clean mine every 5 days - that includes washing the vet bed at 90degrees along with cosies etc and cleaning the correx, hay trays with f10 disinfectant :)
 
I wash their fleece and towels every week and disinfect the cage. Their litter tray is emptied every day and i disinfect it once a week aswell :)
 
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