Fleece Bedding

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Brittany Unrein

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I use fleece bedding in my C&C cage and completely change out the fleece every two days and spot clean all the poo and dirty spots every day. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to keep the fleece bedding from smelling so quickly? My husband says he doesn't smell anything when he walks by the cage but I do. I have 4 males (2 adults and 2 adolescents) and I know males are more smelly and messy than sows can be. Any suggestions to help control the smell of pee/ boar glue/ territory marking when I put in their new bedding every two days?
 
hi

prior to having my boys ive always had house rabbits and i alternated their vetbed,
 
Others might dispute this, but when I was doing my research into bedding, I saw a few people saying that they found towels got quite soggy and took a while to dry and could get a bit smelly. To try and avoid this I went down the mattress protector route which has a kind of fluffy core. Still gets soggy but dries faster. I can smell them today when kneeling over the pen, but they last got a full change on Saturday so in need of changing (I thought I'd done it on Sunday, so should have done it yesterday really). I've only got two though so that could well make a difference too. Where do they go? If it tends to be in one corner then you could put an extra piddle pad down there and change that daily or more...
 
Yeah they do tend to go in one or two areas for the most part. I have extra in their kitchen area and extras under their houses and in their most loved spots lol. I'm currently sewing mine together so little by little. I love the mattress pad idea but towels are just so much cheaper. :/
 
I used a padded cotton bedspread from a charity shop, cut it to size when doubled over and sewed into a pad like that (so each pad has a double thickness of the bedspread) Then I put fleece on top and tuck it firmly under. The fleece gets the hairs, so I hand wash that, and the pads go into the machine. They dry quickly and don't smell as bad as towels (I have also used towels) because the wadding grows less bacteria. Although the outside of the pads has cottony type fabric the inner is synthetic so it doesn't encourage bacteria in the way cottony towels do.

I have to admit that I didn't bother with any hems or any swanky finishing, I just doubled over and roughly sewed. The difficult bit was finding a bedspread in a charity shop. The fleece gets tucked around it and under it, so the fleece needs to be considerably bigger than the pad, and then the piggies can't get to any wadding used in the pads at all anyhow.

If you can find the bedspread or you know someone who is throwing one out then it really is a cheap option.
 
I use puppy pads underneath mine, and my two boys very rarely smell at all!

You can also buy puppy pads in bulk from places like pound land and pound stretcher if you're in the UK! :nod:
 
Sarah from Chucklebunnies said:
I used a padded cotton bedspread from a charity shop, cut it to size when doubled over and sewed into a pad like that (so each pad has a double thickness of the bedspread) Then I put fleece on top and tuck it firmly under. The fleece gets the hairs, so I hand wash that, and the pads go into the machine. They dry quickly and don't smell as bad as towels (I have also used towels) because the wadding grows less bacteria. Although the outside of the pads has cottony type fabric the inner is synthetic so it doesn't encourage bacteria in the way cottony towels do.

I have to admit that I didn't bother with any hems or any swanky finishing, I just doubled over and roughly sewed. The difficult bit was finding a bedspread in a charity shop. The fleece gets tucked around it and under it, so the fleece needs to be considerably bigger than the pad, and then the piggies can't get to any wadding used in the pads at all anyhow.

If you can find the bedspread or you know someone who is throwing one out then it really is a cheap option.
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Have you tried putting the fleece in an old pillowcase, tying it and then washing it?
I started doing that recently and the fleece still gets washed but I don't have to take hair and hay out of the washing machine :)
 
i sew mine with fleece and a proper incontinence bed mat inside. They have lasted well since last May and I am only now making new ones as they have shrunk ever so slightly.. they dry so fast too. pricey but last well and will absorb bit better than a towel.

i also use horse bags for all the guinea pig bedding..
 
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