Fr.mike
176 posts
Oct 17, 2006
2:38 PM
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So how do you guys clean out all the feathers? I use cat litter on the floor(Plain unscented) about 2.25 a bag at walmart.It lasted about 5 months with a every other day raking off---but did get alittle dusty near the end.The floor stayed dry as a bone.When the feathers got to be crazy I waited until they all seemed about done and took a shop vac. to the whole mess.No dust from shoveling or sweeping. It was a bit of a pain emptying the shop vac. about 5 times but I considder It a good tradeoff for no dust cleaning up.I am thinking of getting one of those shop vac.s that big carpenter shops have and just pipeing it out the side of the loft-into the woods that way I dont have to empty anything--just turn it on and vac.
Just my Ideas .
Fr. Mike
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
773 posts
Oct 17, 2006
2:50 PM
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Hey Mike. Since I have upwards of 500 birds during the summer and fall, you can bet the feathers get pretty messy...lol. For the lofts I usually wet them down and just shovel them out. But often I'll just take a leaf blower and blow them out..lol. Then wait until the santa ana winds come and use the leaf blower to make them "go away"..lol. I have one of the big shop vacs that comes in handy and it will even suck up flight feathers, but it is a pain in the ass since it fills up quick and the filter gets clogged with dust.
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Fr.mike
177 posts
Oct 17, 2006
3:24 PM
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Yes indeed a pain in yeole glutis maximus it is but the alternative of breeding away from feathers--well it just doesnt seem hardly right now does it. LOL--LOL!
Mike
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motherlodelofts
914 posts
Oct 17, 2006
4:08 PM
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Mike , this time of year shop vacs come in real handy.
Scott
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D-mitch
5 posts
Oct 17, 2006
6:57 PM
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I use a shop vac but it has a bag that i can put in it man it work great when the bag feelup toss it no mess at all.
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chewy
2 posts
Oct 22, 2006
3:27 PM
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hey guys if you u guys were to be cleaning everyday like me then it wouldn't be a big problems...well my molt to but like i say you have to clean it everyday...get going like the bird that are spinning.... chewy...
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Fr.mike
180 posts
Oct 22, 2006
7:40 PM
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Oh-Chewy--If we all had lives of leisure like you do!I do scrape the loft almost every day --perches-boxes etc. and rake off the floor litter . I use the floor litter mostly to keep the floor bone dry,esp. in summer when its nearly impossible in the humidity .In the winter I find it helps esp. when your trying to breed birds in below zero weather without heat.The squeeks dont freeze to the floor and you dont have terd popcicles and inch thick that you cant scrape up with a jackhammer---and then a thaw that gives you a slimy slippery disease ridden floor.Now If I had the leisure that some do I could stand In the loft all day with a dust pan behind their arses catching every terd that comes in to this world but alass I have better things to do.Chewy be careful when you make generalizations on a site that goes all over the world. sometimes what looks like a lazy arse persons loft litter is one mans necessity.Hay-just one ole priests thoughts and Ideas --no offence--just my nickles worth.
Fr. Mike
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Santandercol
362 posts
Oct 23, 2006
6:06 AM
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Chewy,
Are you radical-extreme pigeon fundamentalist??LOL!!!
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Kelly
Last Edited by Santandercol on Oct 23, 2006 6:07 AM
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