How often do you clean your piggies?

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We clean our piggies everyday, or most days. If we don't clean them we brush up all the poops and so on?
 
I spot clean everyday and get rid of any peed on hay and then do a whole cage clean once a week, where i clean the base of the cage and replace newspaper, hay and megazorb.

I refill hay and dry food everyday (but limit the amount as they are fully grown) and give two feedings of veg a day.

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I spot clean twice a day (at least - always seem to be loads of poos on the fleece, and they get all mushed up in their paws otherwise - bleurgh!) The cage is washed and disinfected once a week.
 
my indoor cages get cleaned every day i have 3 indoor cages and the ones in the shed whenever they need it which is usually 1-2 times a week
 
In the winter once a week and in the summer a little more to avoid fly strike.
 
mine are indoors on fleece

I stop clean the poo regular spend a good 5 mintues every morning then throughout the day lol! With another check at bedtime:))

I change the whole bedding (fleece, under pad, newspaper-which is never wet anyway-) every 4-5 days
 
Do ypu mean clean the piggies or clean their cage/hutch? I assume you mean hutch/cage, i do that every 7 days. (so once a week lol)
 
I spot clean twce a day,and completely change my Vetbed every third day.
 
mine have a cage clean around every five days; sometimes more, sometimes less. it depends how much mess they make!
they get fresh hay every day and a bath every few months. but again, baths happen depending on how grubby they are :p
 
I put mine in the shed about about 3-weeks ago and they now have free-run of the shed floor (24 square feet), plus the 19 square feet of their two-tier hutch. I now only have to clean them out once a week, whereas before I was having to clean them out twice a week. Yay for more space!
 
We don't have a set routine yet with the new cage but seeing as my boys seem to be litter training themselves since we moved them into it last week, hopefully we will be changing litter tray's daily, spot cleaning daily and full cage clean once a week. As I said, its a new cage so we're seeing how they get on but they seem to keep this new setup much tidyer and cleaner than their old cage. Bless them x
 
I spot clean at least twice a day, I don't like the look of poo on their pretty fleece. I do a full change of fleece and towels once a week but change the vetbed pieces in their hideys every day. Fresh hay when they need it (usually several times a day because I love how excited they get!)
 
In the large cage (where they normally are up in Dundee) I spot clean everyday whilst they're in their run and top up with hay. A full clean out once a week.
But since being home in their smaller cage I've been spot cleaning everyday but having to clean out every 3-4 days due to how much quicker the muck piles up!

Space really does make a difference!
 
How do they last that long? Our piggies are manky if we leave them 2 days. We generally clean them every second day so basically spot clean on the days we don't clean them fully. Cleaning fully is chaging the fleece and everything else and spot cleaning we are just brushing up the poops.

They get fresh hay a lot during the day. :)
 
every 2 days for our boys too, change of towels and fleece, 3 days and I find its too wiffyrolleyes, I'm currently trying out different ways to stop them sneeking under the fleece into the towel layers.......... any suggestions, I dont mind clearing poops..... but hunting for them is another matter:))
 
I guess it depends on the cage size and the poopiness of the pigs! My pairs of boars need doing more often than the girls do. My big pen in the shed gets a full clean once a week and spot clean as needed. Everyone is given a full clean at least once a week. Indoor piggies on fleece are cleaned daily.

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I do a full clean every third day but then I have multiple pigs and they are on fleece. It's alot of work but worth it when the cages are all clean.

I spot clean every day and change litter trays daily too.
 
I was talking to one of my old school teachers the other day and found out he has a rodent and when he said he mucks it out once a week my jaw dropped cos I thought that’s gotta be well rancid living conditions,
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I didn’t realise once a week was quite normal.
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I muck out twice a day, it takes me 10 mins in the morning rush before work and they pee more during the day and early evening so at night I spend about 30-40 minutes pulling up newspaper and putting it down again, dunno how it takes so long.
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There’s heaps of cardboard boxes with holes in in my pen now though so I have to shift them all from one side of the pen to the other along with my chair and sort through the massive hay pile weeding out any wet hay. I feel dead guilty if I leave any wee puddles cos I wouldn’t want to live with that around, I tend to also stop what I'm doing and chase after a new wee if I see it get done too.
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A big wee can soak down a good 10 sheets of newspaper so if I can I like to get to them before they soak in, I chuck out a whole plastic bag of stuff twice a day and my wheelie bin is full to the top each week with it.
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& I’m obsessed with collecting newspapers,
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my worst nightmare would be running out.
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I do a complete clean twice a week and spot checks the rest of the time (at least daily). I might be increasing the cleaning to every other day though to make it nicer for them. Know what you mean re the newspapers :))
 
My, if my pigs knew what room service others were getting they'd be moving to a different hotel! Mine get cleaned out once a WHEEK but they are pretty good, they always wee in their cage and the few stray poos they leave in the 'playground' I just hover up when I do the weekly clean. My pigs seem to be quite tidy, but from reading this thread, my standards might not be as high as others!
 
I do a poopy scoopy as I call it once a day, twice if i'm not at work, this involves picking up the beans with a cat litter scoop and then brushing the fleece with a small dustpan to get all the bits off. If I have more time i'll run over it with the dustbuster. The fleece and vetbed get washed usually once a week alongside a full scrub of the cage, sometimes I have to change the vetbed in the hay loft a bit more as they tend to pee more up there.
 
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