Kitchen area, Fleece, weeing in Hay

[skippyinspace]

took the plunge and moved to fleece, which seems to be going OK, but where in the past we had put the hay on the log tunnel and had little wastage, Still have little wastage but but a lot of it got stuck on the fleece, So we moved the hay to ontop of the castle as in the picture. Noting this is a new hay photo an hour later the hay is scattered across the top and at least on pig then uses the far corner to wee in, making wet hay and we find that wet hay = smell, and wee sitting ontop of the castle. Which then makes a lot of wastage.

they have hay 24/7, which is topped up in the morning and the evening.

The plan is at Christmas to extend the castle along the full length of the side and add move the ramp opposite the one with the tunnel on. (So 2 ramps into the long area of their house.

House internals are 220cm x 75cm approx. (2 fleeces 114cm x 74cm, yes I did mess up measuring or it may have shrunk)

So the questions are.

1)High level what are my options?

2) should I have something under the hay, like care fresh, teabag, shredded paper, even a fleece square.

3) silly question, what is the difference between eating hay and bedding hay

4)Asking the impossible is there anyway to stop them weeing in the hay.


thanks in advance

Ian

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[Stewybus]

I would put another area with hay in, maybe a cat litter tray. They do tendto wee & poo where they eat, where they drink & where they sleep x

 

[PigglePuggle]

took the plunge and moved to fleece, which seems to be going OK, but where in the past we had put the hay on the log tunnel and had little wastage, Still have little wastage but but a lot of it got stuck on the fleece, So we moved the hay to ontop of the castle as in the picture. Noting this is a new hay photo an hour later the hay is scattered across the top and at least on pig then uses the far corner to wee in, making wet hay and we find that wet hay = smell, and wee sitting ontop of the castle. Which then makes a lot of wastage.

they have hay 24/7, which is topped up in the morning and the evening.

The plan is at Christmas to extend the castle along the full length of the side and add move the ramp opposite the one with the tunnel on. (So 2 ramps into the long area of their house.

House internals are 220cm x 75cm approx. (2 fleeces 114cm x 74cm, yes I did mess up measuring or it may have shrunk)

So the questions are.

1)High level what are my options?

2) should I have something under the hay, like care fresh, teabag, shredded paper, even a fleece square.

3) silly question, what is the difference between eating hay and bedding hay

4)Asking the impossible is there anyway to stop them weeing in the hay.


thanks in advance

Ian

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We have that same castle! I ordered some custom sized fleecy squares to go on top. We have another castle house too a different shape and we have a triple layer of newspaper with hay on top

Piggies eat pretty much any hay, but bedding hay tends to be meadow which is softer and fluffier, and eating hay tends to be timothy hay which is usually greener and spikier and more expensive.

We have Rosewood corner rabbit litter trays in our fleecy area to put hay in, as well as castle roof hay- and a separate cage area with shredded paper bedding on the floor, specifically for floor hay!

 

[Pigwhisperer]

I've always been confused about eating vs bedding hay as mine eat the bedding stuff and won't touch anything in a rack!

They seems to like "meadow" best. Anything really green and grassy. Now I'm using fleece with a plastic "potting" tray from Amazon for the hay, we still waste some but less than when I used it for bedding throughout.

 

[AMMAH]

Great photo! Mine have a castle like that too but none of them will go up there!

If you got that castle from the same place as mine, he is currently selling hay boxes. As others have said, they wee/ poo where they eat, so I don't think there's much you can do about that other than maybe putting less hay in and replacing it more frequently. With the hay boxes, they are much larger and I would definitely line it with something like newspaper and carefresh bedding.

 

[YorkshireLass]

I’m a complete novice (they’ve been here ten days) but I have a plant holder (shallow plastic tray from the garden centre) under the hay rack with a little shredded paper litter in it and they seem to like weeing in there.

 

[Reenie]

In one cage I use cat litter trays for hay, and I just line them with newspaper which I change every day. One is filled with hay and the other sits under the hay rack. This works really well and almost all of their wee is in there. In the other cage I have a big under bed box with a side cut out, lined with newspaper and filled with hay. This doesn't get much wee. I think it's dependent on where your piggies like to wee.