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Will your shed/playhouse have electricity and therefore be able to be heated?
I’m in the UK and my two boys live in a shed but it doesn’t have electricity so can’t be heated.
If you are planning on them moving out there to live permanently, and you are not able to completely heat the shed, then I would not use a c&c cage as it could be very difficult to keep them warm enough.
I have a 8ft x 6ft shed. It’s insulated and has a stable door with internal mesh doors so I can ventilate safely.
They have a 6ft hutch and then the area directly in front of the hutch, which is enclosed by c&c grids.
They are only locked in the hutch at night during the winter for warmth, all other times (including during the night in summer) they free roam a total space of 36 square feet (i have a strip down the side for me to walk in where they don’t have access to). It works very well and they love having lots of space!
To keep them warm enough on winter nights, they have the hutch filled with hay, and then four snugglesafe heatpads. On the hutch is a thermal hutch cover, two blankets and a normal (non thermal) hutch cover and then a duvet I can pull down over all of it. I also have a plan to bring them inside for winter if it gets too cold and these measures fail (as it has done once), and have a c&c cage for them to come into
Summer is actually much harder than winter as the shed becomes very hot very quickly and my boys generally move into the house for a few weeks in the height of summer as keeping it cool is near impossible (it reaches 38 degrees + easily in there). Even on a warm but not particularly hot day, they usually have to come out because it can still get to 25 degrees, only going back in late in the evening. The shed is generally 5-10 degrees warmer than outside temperatures (except summer when it gets worse).
They are bedded on megazorb or aubiose which is topped with hay. I occasionally use fleece on the shed floor area (never in the hutch) but only during a dry summer and not in winter as i find it doesn’t dry properly.
They have a separate run on the grass for summer time “ I am there to supervise
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