Subject: Salmonella
Date: Jan 22 21:05:06 1995
From: Dean Schwickerath - dschwick at wln.com


Can Salmonella survive being dried out? Put another way, if you rotated bird
feeders and placed the unused feeders in a dry heated area do the salmonella
bacteria survive? Just wondering if people can rotate feeders and save some
work washing each feeder out with a light bleach solution on a weekly basis.
We already wash the bird bath each week but will add a small amount of
bleach in the future. I am considering a second bird bath to also rotate use
of that device. We will also move the feeding area around so the same ground
isn't being used constantly but I was wondering if the nightly racoon raid
on the ground seeds might reduce salmonella problems?

Thanks for any reply.
Dean Schwickerath
LAN Manager
Dept of Revenue/State of Washington
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