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So I'm planning my new piggy family and I'm completely lost with cage ideas right now ?/

My last 3 had a cage like this one.
Now it was OK but not great.... there was not enough room for them to have anything fun!

I would really love to build my new pair a CC cage but I have a few questions about them:
1. How often do you clean the fleeces?
2. Do piggies really like being on fleece more then wood shavings?
3. how many grids would I need to make a cage big enough for 2 pigs? (I would want to make one with a lid because I have my dog in my room at night and wouldn't want her jumping in! )
4. What do you use as the base of the cage?

I think thats it :(|)
any help with CC cages would be a big help at the moment :)
 
Hello, I think it's great you are wanting to choose a proper cage for them!
I have a 2x5 C&C cage for my two boars, with fleece. I'm not really sure about which kind of bedding they enjoy more, but I can tell you that my boys seem to popcorn a lot on the fleece, and while it is easier to deal with and cheaper, it also looks a whole lot neater. As for the base of the cage, some say you can get chloroplast from a sign shop, but I do not use any chloroplast because I have my cage sitting atop a big table that we never used with extra room on the sides of it. You will not be needing a lid if you have the cage on top of a table or something high enough out of reach of your dog.(:

I really hoped this helped!:)

Claire x
 
Also, you can get the C&C cages from Walmart, but I had to order them off the website since they were only available online. And I forgot to tell you that I spot clean the cage every day and do a full clean once a week.:)
 
I don't have a table to put them on as my hammies are taking up my table space haha.
There is much more room for them on the floor as well so it will have to be a lid :/
I'm sure I could train her to be good with them as she is no problem with the hamsters and lets them climb all over her :P
but I just wouldn't trust her with them when I'm asleep and no aware of what she is doing haha.

I'm in the UK so going to have to order online.
Thanks for all your advice helps alot :)

Also! I remembered another question lol.
Do your piggies not chew holes in the fleece?
 
Hiya, I got the Pet DEn c and c cage (actually it is C only as it's only the cubes and you need to buy the correx seperately!)

It is on amazon and ebay and was 44 quid I think including delivery. It was enough to make a 6 foot by 2 foot single story basic rectangle shape with a lid covering the whole thing (we have a cat)


As to whether they like the fleece - well I thought they really did as they really do popcorn all over it - however once I put 2 litter trays in there with wood shavings in the litter trays, my Stanley has taken to using the litter tray as his bed!

My piggies don't chew the fleece at all - it is so easy to shake the poo off each day - a 10 min job I can do by myself (and 5 mins of that is taking all the toys out!)
 
No, they generally don't chew it, although some will try to burrow under it! Mine are fitted over the sides so they can't do that. Occasionally I think some pigs nibble at the top (sort of 'graze' on it) but it won't hurt them.

Mine seem to like the fleece, and can lie down anywhere now. They wouldn't lie directly on woodshavings before. I also like it because there are less nasty bits to get stuck in their boy bits and cause infection.

I have a 4x2 with a mezz level (can see here) and use more grids for my base. I have two doors that open outward on the front, and two that open upward on the top. I vac out poos etc. daily. Only find I need a complete change of the bottom once a week, BUT my older boy wees almost exclusively in the downstairs litter tray and my baby on the newspaper-and-hay- covered level upstairs, so I change those every couple of days. That keeps smell down and means I get longer out of my fleece than some people.

My setup took, if I recall, 57 grids to build the base and cat-proof top. Using a table as a base would have saved me an entire pack of grids I think, but to be honest I couldn't be bothered visiting B&Q/IKEA/etc. to build something suitable and cheap at the time, so just opted for more grids off the interwebs.
 
Thanks for all the help everyone!
I'm defo going to go for a CC cage now :)

All I need to do now is work out where to put the darn thing :P
Could someone do me a favour and tell me what the size of each grid is? I need to work out where all my bedroom furniture needs to be moved to so I have room to put it :)
 
Louise_B said:
Thanks for all the help everyone!
I'm defo going to go for a CC cage now :)

All I need to do now is work out where to put the darn thing :P
Could someone do me a favour and tell me what the size of each grid is? I need to work out where all my bedroom furniture needs to be moved to so I have room to put it :)
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My grids are 14" x 14" or 35.5cm x 35.5cm :)
 
thanks!

Right measured a space out and it looks like I will only be able to fit in a 3 by 3. is that big enough for 2 pigs?
I may in the future build a hay loft but thats only a maybe.
 
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