Fleece Or Sawdust?

[Bubble&Squeak11]

What do your Piggies prefer in cage? Fleece, sawdust or anything else? Really interested to find out what's most popular? Thanks

 

[sport_billy]

You'll find lots of Bedding reviews in this section

Our special needs piggie Meggy Moo uses Fleece and our trio of girlies are bedded on dust extracted Wood Shavings. If I couldn't get the specific brand I would look at alternate bedding for them. Lots of people on the forum use something called Vet Bed too.

 

[AbiS]

My boys love either fleece or hay. used to use fitch throughout and they would always sleep in the hay areas - I thought it was because those areas are in hideys. I switched to fleece but kept the fitch and hay in the hideys and they now sleep all over the place! Barney particularly likes it because he can now sleep beside his nugget bowl!

 

[sport_billy]

Barney particularly likes it because he can now sleep beside his nugget bowl!

That made me lol

 

[Julesie]

I give mine shredded paper. =)
I've gone through many different beddings and this one worked best for me and the boys don't mind it either.

 

[klee]

I don't really like either, although I am willing to give fleece another try at some point. I just found it got too damp, too quickly but it might not be as bad with puppy pads underneath.
I have used woodshavings for a long time, not anymore though. I find they can sometimes be a bit dusty, and I don't really like having it indoors particularly as the girls +boy are in my room at present.
I am currently using Ecozorb a locally made recylcled cardboard bed like Finacard or Walmsley premierbed (I have used both, but this is cheaper (£6.50 a 20kg bale) with puppy pads and newspaper underneath. I find it stays dry and pretty much smell free(kind of) for about a week, I like the fact it doesn't stick to fleece coseys like shavings, and I can pile the hay in without worrying about it sticking to fleece- my little boy loves hiding in his hay. It is also fairly comfortable to walk on.

 

[Lilly]

I use vet bed in their home cage and fleece in their floor time run, with waterproof terry towelling mattress protectors underneath. I have used various non-fabric beddings before I hit on these. The other one I liked was the foam aqua-flex type of thing. I believe your Dunhelm Mills or something like that sells it. Many members on here use the stuff, but one of my boys couldn't resist chewing on it.

I prefer washing bedding to cleaning out & binning the loose stuff. And I find my boys prefer fabric. My Hazelnut has a fabric fetish. he just won't walk anywhere that does not have fabric. I have all tile or wood floors & if you put him directly on them he just freezes. When I was using non-fabric bedding he spent all his time in his hidey because it was fleece. Now he stretches outside of his hidey many times a day.

I find the vet bed stays drier for much longer than the fleece, which is why I use it in their cage where they spend most of their time. I can go for a week & a half before it needs a wash, so long as I do poop pickups once a day. I use the fleece in their floor time run because it is so much cheaper than vetbed and as they are not on it that long I can use the same fleece for about a week before I have to wash it. I just shake out the poop & hay after they go back home.

 

[AbiS]

I don't really like either, although I am willing to give fleece another try at some point. I just found it got too damp, too quickly but it might not be as bad with puppy pads underneath.

You definitely have to have something underneath the fleece - I have towel and newspaper under mine and do not have a problem with damp fleece - I change it every 4-6 days.

 

[flowerfairy]

Mine have correx on the floor (laminated) with newspaper over the top and newspaper and hay in their litter trays (where they spend most of their day time) with a couple of strawberry fleecey igloos off ebay and a little newspaper lined cardboard box (just a bit bigger than a cereal box). They also have a plastic yellow stool that they sit under. They do the vast majority of their wees in their large litter trays.

I do use fitch over the newspaper sometimes (in their trays) which is really absorbent.

 

[MushiiPeas]

I use a layer of newspaper and then a layer of Fitch, i also put hay in the areas where the sleep the most.