Base of a C & C Cage - do you use grids or not ?

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You may have seen from my previous thread I have 2 boys living in my bathroom at the moment in a 3 ft x 1 3/4 ft cage - as the bathroom is the only indoor space available i have worked out that I could make a weirdy shaped c & c cage and still have a bath / wash / get to the loo / get into my storage cupboard as well - have worked out I would need 16 grids for the perimeter,but do I need to put grids on the base before I put the correx in ? or just plop the correx in (hopefully I will be able to blag some old estate agents boards like I did for my girls converted book case home ) - many thanks for help with this stupid question.
 
oh blimey, just ignore me i didnt read properly, i didnt have any on the base either dohhhhhhhh
 
I just set up the grids and put in the coroplast with no grids needed underneath
 
Won't living in the bathroom cause the hay to mold? It's probably not good for them to be in the room with such high humidity. Not to mention the temperature fluctuations.
 
The boys pen is grids on the bottom as the table isnt wide enough for the size (only just), and I wanted the security of having a fixed base attached, but the herd has not, I have a line of grids on one side where the opening side is so I can secure the side (and they cant escape as the correx is not very high due to having to be able to reach inside) but as its on a big enough base, the correx is just plonked in the inside of the grids.

So it depends on what you are putting the pen on, if its likely to move, the grids can tip over.
 
no just correx but its also on top of a atble so that makes the base stronger ;)
 
Hiya - I have my cage in the kitchen - so a water-resistant floor too and I don't have any correx on the bottom floor at all - I just have the Huggies bed mats with the fleece directly on top. This wouldn't work in a bathroom though as the bed mats would absorb all the humidity from the damp air I think.

I have just put on a 2nd story and used correx on top of the floor grids. I do get the odd poop coming out of the side of the lower floor but hardly anything. We have a big kitchen so it's not as unhygienic as it might sound!
 
lissie said:
Won't living in the bathroom cause the hay to mold? It's probably not good for them to be in the room with such high humidity. Not to mention the temperature fluctuations.
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Hadn't even thought about temperature fluctuations (thats why its so great I can come on here and ask advice / opinions from you guys ),just about how to get the piggies away from where they were - hay is changed twice a day so it wouldnt have a chance to go mouldy and we were up till gone midnight swopping furniture between my son and daughters bedroom to try and get space that way,and I think we can now do it :)
 
tabelmabel said:
Hiya - I have my cage in the kitchen - so a water-resistant floor too and I don't have any correx on the bottom floor at all - I just have the Huggies bed mats with the fleece directly on top. This wouldn't work in a bathroom though as the bed mats would absorb all the humidity from the damp air I think.

I have just put on a 2nd story and used correx on top of the floor grids. I do get the odd poop coming out of the side of the lower floor but hardly anything. We have a big kitchen so it's not as unhygienic as it might sound!
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I personally dont think having piggies in a kitchen is unhygenic as people have cats bouncing up and down onto work surfaces and table tops,which is something piggies dont do.:))
 
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