Completely disinfecting help

[stephjls]

My baby grey will be here in a couple weeks, therefor i'm preparing. I have the cages, and toys.

 

I am wondering ways in which I can completely disinfect the toys from any virus they could hold. I got them from a bird show recently, and was told that thats practically a death wish waiting. So, how to disinfect?

 

I was thinking I could throw the boings in the wash. I read bleach is bad, so what cleaning solution should I use for that? Or is the washer a bad idea..

 

I am going to bake the wood perches at 250degrees, how long should they stay in there for?

 

As for the other toys, with leather and plastic and such. whats the best way to clean those?

 

After everything is clean, I plan to put them out in the sun for a couple days. Florida heat will probably kill anything left.

 

Advice and facts please =)

[Eckobird]

That is a good idea to clean them. I never cleaned the toys when they were new, I actually never thought of that since they were new but you do have a good point. I would say boil the toys. Get a huge bucket of hot boiling water and put the toys in it. Add vinegar to disinfect them, that is the safest thing to use.

[JJsHoney]

here is a previous post on the subject, not sure if it will help

http://www.greyforums.net/forums/other-birds/97569-how-to-clean-toys.html

and I used for all of my plastic toys hot water a scrub brush and a little vinegar, on my ropes and boings a steamer (in the winter) and in the summer i just moisten them and then hang them outside to the let sun do the rest!

[stephjls]

So I can boil the leather and cloth and such on the toys with plastic in vinegar and water, and it will all be good to go?

 

Are the boings included in this?

[JJsHoney]

I didnt to my boings just because of the wire inside, and how long it would take the rope to dry i was afraid of molding, so i just moistened them with water and vinegar and let them dry in the sun

[stephjls]

Okay, thank you =)