How often do you clean your feeders?
How often do y’all clean the tubs of your feeders? What criteria do you use to choose the cleaning schedule?
I used to clean once a week~ but sometime over the last year as I added more and more tubs it has morphed into twice week~ which is not a bad thing for the cleanliness of my colony~ but is getting quite pricey buying all that litter, is taking a LOT of time each week and is turning into a bit of an issue getting 8 bags(yep~ the big 33 gallon plastic bags) of used litter into the trash can with out household garbage each week. My sons are getting tired of the trash day dance they have to do IN the trash can to stuff the trash down enough to get that last bag in there before pick up!
I’ve asked some people in chat~ and it seems most people are running more rats in each tub and only cleaning once a week~ so maybe I’m just being extra picky about the odor? It’s the ammonia odor I’m noticing and having to clean so often for. So this week I added extra litter~ and I’m going to try to let it go the full week and see how they look. Usually today would be cleaning day~ I went out and smelled the tubs and they don’t seem to bad~ but I’m not sure it will be able to go the whole week or not.
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