MamiSandra
New Born Pup
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Hi,
I am mum to 3 beautiful sows and a gorgeous boar. They live indoors in 6x4 C&C cage with a 2x2 loft conversion. I normally use fleece bedding all round, but we are going on holiday for 3 weeks on Tuesday and as I don't have enough fleece blankets, I am switching them to Ambiose Hemp Bedding for the holiday. I have two very sensible teenagers who mind the piggies for me whilst we are away. They have done it for few years and usually, when we are only away for 10 days, they leave the fleece for me to wash upon our return. But as we are away for so much longer, they would need to shake them, wash them, hang them - I just don't think it is reasonable plus there is too much to go wrong (the laundry bag keeps splitting, so needs restitching every few washes, the machine easily overloads and I don't like having our old machine run for 4 hours with nobody in the house).
Soooo last night I fully cleaned the herd and put them onto Aubiose and hay and they seem very happy. Now the potentially silly questions:
- What is the best thing to use as a liner underneath? Newspaper? Or is there something else? It's just because the cage area is so large, that it an awful lot of newspaper to accumulate by next week and I stupidly did not think of that.....
- Do you use a poop scoop with hemp like people use for cat litter? How do you best clean up poop and wee between full cleans?
- How often do you need to fully clean the cage?
- How thick a layer do you use of the hemp?
Thank you.
I am mum to 3 beautiful sows and a gorgeous boar. They live indoors in 6x4 C&C cage with a 2x2 loft conversion. I normally use fleece bedding all round, but we are going on holiday for 3 weeks on Tuesday and as I don't have enough fleece blankets, I am switching them to Ambiose Hemp Bedding for the holiday. I have two very sensible teenagers who mind the piggies for me whilst we are away. They have done it for few years and usually, when we are only away for 10 days, they leave the fleece for me to wash upon our return. But as we are away for so much longer, they would need to shake them, wash them, hang them - I just don't think it is reasonable plus there is too much to go wrong (the laundry bag keeps splitting, so needs restitching every few washes, the machine easily overloads and I don't like having our old machine run for 4 hours with nobody in the house).
Soooo last night I fully cleaned the herd and put them onto Aubiose and hay and they seem very happy. Now the potentially silly questions:
- What is the best thing to use as a liner underneath? Newspaper? Or is there something else? It's just because the cage area is so large, that it an awful lot of newspaper to accumulate by next week and I stupidly did not think of that.....
- Do you use a poop scoop with hemp like people use for cat litter? How do you best clean up poop and wee between full cleans?
- How often do you need to fully clean the cage?
- How thick a layer do you use of the hemp?
Thank you.