05/31/2004

Looking for an Easy to Clean Hummingbird Feeder?

One that is easy to split open with an "O" ring or gasket so several times a week you can open it up, brush it clean, and put it fill it back up with Hummingbird feeder sugar water? 

I am too! Please email me if you know here I can get such a feeder. The insides of the hummer feeder bottoms always get foul after a while, and require constant cleaning; that's just the facts of hummer feeder maintenance. but I was quite disgusted when I tried to clean my Mom's Hummer feeder. Indeed, the bottles are easy to unscrew (DUH! how could you make that complicated?), but beyond that, they seem not to be engineered to be opened up for cleaning. Amazing, since they are intended to hang outdoors in 80-90 degree weather with a dilute sugar water solution - an obvious invitation for fermentation at the least, and purification as well...

I took apart Mom's two low budget Hummer feeders made by:

Perky-Pet Products Co.
2201 S. Wabash Street
Denver, CO 80231

These are obviously cheap Wal-Mart, bottom end products, almost disposable - and there's nothing wrong with that, if that's what you want to buy... but seeing all that black goop inside and not being able to wipe or brush it off was frustrating. So I put together this website, and emailed them asking them if they have a feeder model that is indeed easy to clean:

Hopefully they'll tell me of a model they have that addresses this concern. I rather have a product that is easy to service, so I can take care of the darn things quick, and then get back to whatever it was I was doing, and I rather not just refill the feeders with the hidden black glop residue inside them. The little critters have to stick their snoots right down inside the plastic flowers, which tent to get extremely foul, and on these feeders are very hard to brush or wipe off even after I pry them out with a sharp knife. 

Pictures coming shortly.

Manufacturers of Hummingbird feeders! 

Please tell me if you have an easy to clean Hummer Feeder - Please contact me only if it REALLY COMES APART FOR CLEANING complete with removable (or cast integral) flowers of some such arrangement that makes cleaning a snap. If you have a good product, I'll list your hummingbird feeder here.

-Ned

Looking for an Easy to Clean Hummingbird Feeder? One that is easy to split open with an "O" ring or gasket so several times a week you can open it up, brush it clean, and put it fill it back up with Hummingbird feeder sugar water? 

easy to clean hummingbird feeder