Blankets or Megazorb?

[Lessie]

Hi,

Sorry it's me again (!) I know I’ve been asking lots of questions about beddings! But this shall be my last question about bedding.

Anyway as some of you may know that I have mentioned my guinea-pig has a blanket in her sleeping department but she also has megazorb on the remaining hutch floor. Well I've just thought why I don’t just cover the whole hutch floor with blankets.

As I have seen some images here that some of you put blanket, vet bed on your guinea-pig hutch/ c&c cages.

I just would like to know which is actually better, megazorb or blanket?

Obviously it will be expensive to buy the blanket 1st but long-term it will be much cheaper than megazorb. Also if I buy several I can wash the dirty one and replace the clean ones I have, but will the urine sink all the way into the layers of blanket, or only one layer?

Again I would love to hear your recommendations and experiences with this.

Thanks!

 

[Briony_S]

I have used vetbed and loved it for about 2 weeks then it started to smell and couldn't get all the little bits of hay off it and bits of food and it came out of washer with bits still on it. It started to smell too but other people love it so I think it depends on your piggies. I have two boars and they made it stink within two days.

I now use megazorb and there is no smell and I leave it a whole week between a full change and just scoop out majority of poos mid week and I also scoop out the hay they have thrown down every other day as this seems to be the thing that holds the smell. It is a real time saver compared to shavings or vetbed as used to spend time each day either fishing out poos and wee patches from the shavings or brushing up the vetbed as the poos get a bit wet and smelly if left on vetbed!

 

[MissPiggy78]

I have used vetbed and loved it for about 2 weeks then it started to smell and couldn't get all the little bits of hay off it and.... the poos get a bit wet and smelly if left on vetbed!

I've had terrible nightmares with this...my pigs won't use a hay rack so I've tried to seperate vet bed/hay areas. It didn't work. I've tried a number of different things but in the end always go back to good old newspaper and hay. I do change it each day but as you just roll the whole thing up it takes 5 minutes.

They have cuddle cups and won't use them either. Instead Pedro sleeps under a bit of old towel and Alf likes to sleep in their litter tray- they don't use that for the appropriate purpose either so I have lined that with vet bed!

 

[Briony_S]

I know that feeling in the end in a fit of depare I had vet bed on the floor two litter trays with their houses in filled with carefresh under the hay rack and then the monkies always moved the litter trays, through the hay all over the floor and wee'd everywhere but in the litter trays. You can't always count on them to do the opposite of what you are trying to acheive

 

[Gordy]

Megazorb for me. It's cheap, it's easy and it's very absorbent.