BlueBird
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello lovely people! It's been a while!
We currently have a massive 6x2 C&C (at the time we had 3 pigs and I always try to go one above the forum recommendations). Sadly 2 of those originals have died and we now have a 4-5yr old boar and a 1yr old (ish) sow. Sadly our sow has suffered a stroke so it looks like they will probably last a similar amount of time now and it seems the right time to start winding down our piggy cycle.
But this cage seems a bit too big for the two of them now especially since our sow is now disabled. My preference is to invest in a second, smaller cage that can easily be transported. While I love our c&c set up (we also have a starter cage bottom we use as a hay tray to stop the hay going everywhere which I really like). It is a monster and I worry that as our disabled sow gets old this may start to be a bit too big and unwieldy for her to navigate.
I've toyed with chopping down our original cage to make a smaller cage with a 1x2 hay tray insert. Trouble is our correx isn't the best quality and would leave us with a 4x2 which from experience is a bit too small to fit a hay tray into. I've also toyed with moving their c&c set up as our pigs and all their stuff has gone to our parents house while we try to sell our flat (apparently exceedingly slowly grr!). We had to fold the correx in half to get it in the car. My poor mum was driving away with the back of her car packed to the ceiling like a student on moving day. I'm reluctant to go for a temporary concertina c&c as it seems a bit complex for my parents to get their heads round and I don't like the idea of the pigs being on a cheap shower curtain instead of correx on my parents nice cream carpets. Eep!
Since these pigs are likely to last only a few years I'm reluctant to invest loads of money into a new set up so I'm trying to source something second hand. I was looking into ferplast plaza 160s as they can flatten down (can they easily be chucked into the back of a car?) and the all in one nature seems like a great solution for moving the pigs about at christmas etc. Not to mention these kind of cages my parents are used to from when I had them as a child. My parents loved our old popup hexagon cages but I chucked all that stuff out as it was under the cage when one of our pigs got ringworm. I'm reluctant to invest in those again because of the high cost of the fleece liners to go in them whereas a ferplast I would be able to reuse their current fleece. Similarly I'm struggling to find second hand ferplast cages that are larger than a 120 but I do notice zooplus seems to have them on sale right now.
So I've got a few questions for you.
We currently have a massive 6x2 C&C (at the time we had 3 pigs and I always try to go one above the forum recommendations). Sadly 2 of those originals have died and we now have a 4-5yr old boar and a 1yr old (ish) sow. Sadly our sow has suffered a stroke so it looks like they will probably last a similar amount of time now and it seems the right time to start winding down our piggy cycle.
But this cage seems a bit too big for the two of them now especially since our sow is now disabled. My preference is to invest in a second, smaller cage that can easily be transported. While I love our c&c set up (we also have a starter cage bottom we use as a hay tray to stop the hay going everywhere which I really like). It is a monster and I worry that as our disabled sow gets old this may start to be a bit too big and unwieldy for her to navigate.
I've toyed with chopping down our original cage to make a smaller cage with a 1x2 hay tray insert. Trouble is our correx isn't the best quality and would leave us with a 4x2 which from experience is a bit too small to fit a hay tray into. I've also toyed with moving their c&c set up as our pigs and all their stuff has gone to our parents house while we try to sell our flat (apparently exceedingly slowly grr!). We had to fold the correx in half to get it in the car. My poor mum was driving away with the back of her car packed to the ceiling like a student on moving day. I'm reluctant to go for a temporary concertina c&c as it seems a bit complex for my parents to get their heads round and I don't like the idea of the pigs being on a cheap shower curtain instead of correx on my parents nice cream carpets. Eep!
Since these pigs are likely to last only a few years I'm reluctant to invest loads of money into a new set up so I'm trying to source something second hand. I was looking into ferplast plaza 160s as they can flatten down (can they easily be chucked into the back of a car?) and the all in one nature seems like a great solution for moving the pigs about at christmas etc. Not to mention these kind of cages my parents are used to from when I had them as a child. My parents loved our old popup hexagon cages but I chucked all that stuff out as it was under the cage when one of our pigs got ringworm. I'm reluctant to invest in those again because of the high cost of the fleece liners to go in them whereas a ferplast I would be able to reuse their current fleece. Similarly I'm struggling to find second hand ferplast cages that are larger than a 120 but I do notice zooplus seems to have them on sale right now.
So I've got a few questions for you.
- What are ferplast 160s like to transport?
- Does anyone know where I could get them second hand?
- Do you have any other ideas so make an easily transportable setup that's not going to cost a fortune?
