Emmfor
Junior Guinea Pig
- Joined
- May 31, 2015
- Messages
- 15
- Reaction score
- 19
- Points
- 95
Hiya, I've not been around for a bit. Cocoa and Hermione are now well settled and have enjoyed a summer of fun in their run. Sadly it has become very apparent I am in fact allergic to something guinea pig related! I'm absolutely gutted but I can no longer handle them at all, if I do I literally have days of rashes, streaming eyes and feeling absolutely awful. I cannot even clean them out. I have to stand at a distance when the children are cleaning out the hutch. I can feed them, so that's keeping me and them happy with a small level of interaction. The children are enjoying caring for them and have taken on the responsibility very well. So I am now faced with a winter with guinea pigs that cannot come in the house, we have no shed or garage either. They have a hutch hugger and a bottle hugger. They have two igloos (we needed two as they sometimes don't want to be together).
So I need some tips and advice for winter. Is there anything I can do, anything I can add to their hutch or any other bedding I should be providing them in the winter months. They currently have wood shavings and hay (lots of it), I basically copied the environment they were born into. They were born in April of this year to outdoor parents, their first month or two were quite cold months and they were outside all the time then they came to us and the weather improved.
So I need some tips and advice for winter. Is there anything I can do, anything I can add to their hutch or any other bedding I should be providing them in the winter months. They currently have wood shavings and hay (lots of it), I basically copied the environment they were born into. They were born in April of this year to outdoor parents, their first month or two were quite cold months and they were outside all the time then they came to us and the weather improved.