How Much Do Your Piggies Poop?!

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Ok, so now I'm getting to grips with this forum and all you lovely piggy owners I was just wondering how much your piggies poop?! When we get ours out for handling and general clambering over our living room it never ceases to amaze me quite how many droppings are left at the end! In a 10 minute space of time I was able to retrieve nearly half a dustpan of poos from just two 9 week old piggies! And don't get me started on the 15 month olds! We have owned piggies for just over a year now and it's been the same story all along! My husband keeps trying to ban them from our sofas but he's the only male in a house full of women/sows so he doesn't stand a chance! I'd be interested to know if other people's piggies are the same as I read one thread earlier where someone commented on how they hadn't been weed or pooed on! Couldn't imagine it! :oD
 
Mine poo for England, about a poo a minute i reckon! Well there was 20ish after 20 mins floortime the other day, though that was between 2 lol
 
Piggies live mainly on nutritionally poor grass/hay, which is how their guts are laid out for. But this means that they have to eat constantly and process a lot of fibre.

Consider lots of poos as the sign of a healthy, happy piggy... ;)
 
Lol! Glad it's not just me bombarded with poos then! I've never had to Hoover under and in between my sofas so much! When we have visitors they occasionally find a lil present! I'm so glad they are smell free and easy to dispose of! I reckon if I saved them all up I could use them in the garden as manure pellets!
 
I was amazed at how much poo and wee there was after floor time but mine had never had floor time before. Things have improved a little and they are very good at using a litter tray now.
 
They'll use a tray when in the cage but floor time is still their favourite time to poo! They aren't so bad with peeing, they only seem to have an accident if they've been out a while, which is fair enough (I got a thorough soaking earlier in fact!) but the amount of poos on my carpet/sofa is incredible! Lol!
 
LaurenKing said:
They'll use a tray when in the cage but floor time is still their favourite time to poo! They aren't so bad with peeing, they only seem to have an accident if they've been out a while, which is fair enough (I got a thorough soaking earlier in fact!) but the amount of poos on my carpet/sofa is incredible! Lol!
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For some reason my boys only poop and pee and scent in one area of their bedroom at floortime. Under the sewing box haha. So now I have a fleece there and they do it all in one spot. I have not been peed on or anythng! I am very lucky!
 
I've only ever counted it once when Minky was ill & she hadn't been going as she should. One night after giving her tummy a massage with an electric toothbrush she did 52 in 10 minutes. I know, I've got nothing better to do.
 
Stewybus said:
I've only ever counted it once when Minky was ill & she hadn't been going as she should. One night after giving her tummy a massage with an electric toothbrush she did 52 in 10 minutes. I know, I've got nothing better to do.
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This is kinda cute :)
 
Mine are actually very good when they are out for floortime/laptime. I usually only hold them for 10 minutes each as this is about as long as they can hold their bladders for, and then put them down for floortime where they have a litterbox set out in the corner of the room. They usually run straight to the litterbox to do their business. I love my piggies <3

Their cage on the other hand... I have to clean it 2-3 times a day because it's just one big poopfest -_-
 
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