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I've started to buy my things for when I get my piggies and wanted people to advice on the best Hay Rack to get.
At some point I will be able to make a hay bag once my sewing machine is working again.
I will be having a C & C cage

Is this one too small http://www.bgstores.co.uk/natural-textures-raw-small-animal-wooden-hayrack

I liked this one but is it too small and will they rip it to pieces?
http://www.pet-supermarket.co.uk/Products/HB4127/happy-pet-willow-hayrack

Will this not be able to attached to the cage?
http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/small_pets/accessories/hay_racks/93108

Do people have any pictures of their hay rack with they piggie eating out of it so I can see how big they are.
 
I don't bother with hay racks. If you put hay on the floor you can watch how happy they are to play in it and hide in it too. It is more natural for them.
 
Same above. I love watching mine play in a pile of hay. Its like watching kids play in a ball pit. And you might found that they make you a little surprise like this.20140616_155836.webp
 
gus+walter said:
I put my hay in a litter tray. Keeps the cage a bit tidier. They love burrowing in a big pile of hay :)
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as do I. I have a bent c&c grid as a huge hay rack amd I pull the hay so it hangs down. Underneath I have a large bunny corner tray and fill it full so they cam burrow and whatnot in it. :)
 
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Being a newbie as far as guinea pigs go I too wanted a good hay rack for my hutch. You can see the one I have in the photo. http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/small_pets/accessories/hay_racks/93108 What I like about this is it size, it seems to be one of the larger ones you can get, and also the screws that come with it. Not to small that they don't fit and not to large that they go straight through the hutch. Just right.

But what I have found in the two months that I've had my piggies, and as other people have commented on, is that they do prefer it in a pile on the floor of the hutch. I put a post up recently about this: http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/about-hay-racks.115465/#post-1564445

I was going to abandon the idea of using the hay rack for hay and put vegetables in it instead. But decided to give them the best of both worlds by keeping hay in the rack so they always have some clean and fresh, and also pile it up on the floor. I have noticed that when it is placed on the floor my boys will immediately start into it, eating and playing with it, whereas the hay in the hay rack stays unattended.
 
There are also hay feeders out witch are just metal cubes witch you fill with hay. They have gaps so it's easy to get the hay out these come in big sizes :)
 
I've had to use a hay rack for Biscuit and Crumble as they just used the hay as a toilet however large the pile was. I do still put hay on the floor for them to play with though.
 
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