Member Gallery: C&C cages/homemade cages

[Julia sawicka]

New pen for our 6 pigs

 

[Penelopes mummy]

Here is our run made from the grids.

 

[AngelaJTaylor]

3x4 grid c&c with 2x1 loft for three piggies X

 

[Chloe04]

My cage is 4x2 with a 1x2 loft with a stand underneath (I needed the room to store all the piggy stuff underneath) and a lid (just in case the cat sneaks in without me knowing). I cable-tied it together as well as using connectors to make it more secure. I keep my 2 baby piggies in here. I bought the whole thing from candcguineapigcages.co.uk. Ive had it for about a week, and it’s so much easier to clean be auss I can actually reach the corners unlike my old hutch! The piggies started popcorning as soon as they were in there. They’ve really come out of themselves since having loads of space - they let me watch them, they rarely hide, and they’ve started taking food from my hand. It’s hard to believe what a difference it’s made to their personalities! The fleece is from Pampered Piggies Boutique - I absolutely love it! All the furniture is from pets at home

 

[my big big pig]

I’ve just made a new arrangement for the pigs pen. The pigs are now in two separate pens because the boys can’t be together in one pen. The bottom cage is attached to the pen with an open hatch. One of the pens is 1meter x 1,60 meters and the other is 2 meters x 1meter x 1,5 meters.

 

[mshappy89]

here is my boars new set Up!
It's a 6 by 2.

The grids are from wayfair they are £27 a pack for 20 panels. The correx red and blue is from Amari plastics @£9.60 a sheet.

 

[my big big pig]

These homemade floor cages are each about 2,5 meters squared. I made it by lining the floor with water proof foil and vet bed bedding. I separated the cages apart by putting cage walls together. It is filled with lots of toys hay racks and cosy hiding places. I extended one of the cages by making the bottom of a cupboard a part of their territory.

 

[Luggage16]

6x2 c&c double cage from the c&c website and 6x5 run made from grids from amazon. Run floor is a wipeable table cloth and the cages have fleece from ziggies piggies. I have 4 boys and 5 girls but 3 of them are only babies atm. Long term we plan to extend the cage area so they have more space. They get daily run time and once the sun starts shining they will go outside in a run often too.

 

[mark22]

Home made grid cage (Not c&c) with hay loft.

Timber base (b and q)
Interlocking storage boxes (argos)
Perspex (ebay)

The floor area is made up of correx, puppy training pads and finally fleece.

We started with a ferplast 2 tier. But found it impractical for cleaning out and accessing in general. So we made this for them today. It is about 1.2 x 1 mtrs with a hay loft 0.6 x 0.4 mtrs.

 

[my big big pig]

My 3 new cages for our 6 pigs. Just trying some new cage ideas... my old ones created a little mess so we upgraded to these. My parents allowed me to dedicate this part of our living room for the pigs.
One cage (2 pigs) is 90cm x 1meter, which is over the minimum.
Ps. We cut holes in between the plastic so that the pigs can safely move around. Hope u like it!

 

[Siikibam]

I added an L shaped loft for the boys and used the FloPlast gutter for the ramp (stuck on carpet tile). The boys seem to like it as they go up there every now and then. Fudge had a snooze up there earlier I need to cut the coroplast and make some liners then I’ll be done with it...for now. I want to possible add another loft the other side with a gutter bridge in between. We’ll see

 

[KayleighA1988]

My piggie shed ready for my two new girls!

 

[ElizaCavies]

My cage is an adjusted c and c to fit in my space. My two boys are still very little as you can see in the picture (7 weeks on Friday and only weighing 313 and 330 grams respectively) although in their teenage years I may have to expand a little! It is currently 112cm x 72cm and a 1x2 c and c hay loft. Is this big enough

It is a quite tricky to spot clean but great for the complete clean once a week, I take out the correx grids and disinfect.

It does come apart quite a lot and the connectors do often come out of the grids but this is fine because it is easy to fix.

 

[KayleighA1988]

Top level Perspex went in today! Excuse the mess

 

[KayleighA1988]

Some in progress pics

 

[Lucettacole]

My C&C cage is in the process of being completed.once Finished it will have four levels and be able to fit up to thirteen guineas. Both of the lower two levels are 2 by 6 and the 3rd level is a 2 by 4. Once the c&c base is added the upper level will be a 2 by 3. As of now I have four male guineas and will soon add two, and eventually more females. I got the second level as part of a 2 by six elevated cage from the guineapigcagesstore. (No that's not a typo). Since then I have used the materials from this store and the two cages I've (technically) bought from it to create this huge cage.
I wouldnt recommend this cage to someone who is just entering the world of guinea pig care, but it is awesome for someone who needs more square footage without giving up floor space. It's not incredibly easy to clean but not overly hard either. I usually use a hand broom and dust pan to sweep it out daily.

 

[emellertid]

So here’s our very first piggie cage. It’s not quite done yet, and I wish I had thought about how much space the house would take up before cutting the ramp opening in the patio, but I’ll figure it out. Piggies are arriving in August!

Cage type: 2x4 C&C with kitchen area, patio + canopy and acrylic windows for child-proofing.

Where it was purchased or how it was made: Grids and coroplast from guineapigcagesstore.com, house and other bits and bobs from Amazon, Zooplus and Etsy.

What size it is: 2x4 C&C’s I think are 27" x 56", about 69 cm x 142 cm.

How many piggies are kept in it: 2 will be living in it.

How easy it is to keep clean/if you'd recommend it: Since I’m still waiting for the piggies’ arrival, and have yet to try out some different bedding alternatives, I haven’t had to clean it but I love it. It’s spacious, pretty, easily customizable, and can be expanded probably infinitely with just some extra grids and coro.

 

[KateC]

Got my daughter a mid sleeper or her guinea pig bunk bed as she likes to call it.
It's 2×5 c&c with 2x1 loft for two boars

 

[JenMcK8]

Hi everyone!

I've just got a new sow (yet to be named) to join my two females Nancy & Peggy. We haven't bonded them yet because we want to make some adjustments to their cage.

At the moment we have a 2x5 c&c cage and we know this is just big enough for 3 piggies but we'd like to do some remodelling.

I know a loft space doesn't technically add to the space they have in the cage but what if it was a 1x4 or 1x5 mezzanine sort of thing? Because its longer, there's still room for zoomies so does it count as 'extra' space?

The bottom part is for our bunny and the top bit (with correx etc) houses our two piggies at the moment. We dont really have room to make it longer and a conventional loft makes it really hard for me to clean (I'm quite small and can't reach over very well).

Advice and tips would be much appreciated on how to remodel the cage without taking it all apart!

 

[HobbsMummy]

Home made guineaigs runs, normally have half tarp covering the top but today was clean out day so took a quick piccie

 

[Livia Rabideau]

My c and c cages. The girls have a 3 by 4 with a loft. The boys have a 3 by 5 with a loft and built in bunk beds in the one side.

 

[Kindness]

2 x 4 C&C Houses 3 Sows

 

[PigglePuggle]

Thought I'd post a pic of my newly cleaned out C&C cage before the piggies get in and wreck all my hard work!
So its a 5x2 grid (185cm x 70cm) C&C but I attached the loft to the side so its 5x3 grids at the wider end (185cm x 105 m).
The bedroom end has vet fleece with a washable absorbant puppy mat underneath. The food and toilet end has kaytee clean and cosy substrate on the floor with newspaper underneath. The extension to the side is a big walk in hay tray, and there are 2 corner toilet/hay trays too. The furniture changes a bit every week but today we have a large size carrot cottage, a wooden Hop Inn house, a ziggys piggies fleece pigloo, and a woven grass hidey tube.
Home to 4 lady piggies

 

[Kindness]

1.5 x 4 C&C cage made with 4mm white correx. The end grids are overlapped and tied with with cable ties to make the cage narrower but still providing good space. It's 60 cm x 147 cm for two sows
I ♡ Fleece

 

[Nadsgirl75]

 

[dannyhimself]

First I want to say thank you for everyone who has made a post in this thread as its a great reference and source of inspiration for cage building.

I want to share my own 3-tier build for our two male pigs. By building our own cage over 3 tiers we were able to get much more space with a footprint that fits in our small living room. I snipped away at the C&C plastic connectors and used cable-ties/velcro straps to make sure it can be easily opened and inserts removed for cleaning. I also bought a transparent acrylic tube to act as a bridge between the middle sections which is quite amusing to watch the pigs crawl through. By having a tube-bridge across the middle sections this allowed the ramps to stay at the back of the cage and consequently allowed us to keep the front of the cage open which allows us to stroke the guineas easily still - it's easier to understand in the pictures.

I think it's much better than the normal guinea-habitat that so many others have started off with as well as us. Hope this can help someone doing a build!

 

[dannyhimself]

Additional Info:

Cube grids:
SONGNOMICS 16-cube wire grid storage from amazon (all squares need to make frame (minus the ramps, had to buy extra for them)). Interestingly these are 30cm x 30cm grids rather than the 35/36cm x 35/36cm standard for C&C grids. They are a bit thinner and so less rigid but seem to do the job fine with an obligatory large volume of cable ties.

Ramp Grids:
standard c&c grids from Grendle.co.uk

Corrugated Plastic:
the-aluminium-shop.co.uk

Acrylic tube:
(is pretty expensive, i think worth it though to see them crawling and it is hard plastic which is rigid enough to act as a bridge and cannot be chewed - 125cm inside diameter) The Clear Plastic Shop

 

[Siikibam]

This is the piggies’ new abode. The girls obviously loved their new home as thy were busy doing zombies and popcorning just have to find a way to make it secure so I can have opening/moving grids to make cleaning the base easier.

 

[oxtinamona]

 

[Pigwhisperer]

Here's Silk & Clover's new home from C&C Guinea Pig Cages - Home - c and c guinea pig cages

The girls are loving being in the heart of the house between the dining table and the computer! Silk starts wheeking any time anyone rustles anything, and they both come and stare at you hungrily like they haven't been fed for weeks. They potter around happily but of course startle at the slightest sudden noise - my husband sneezing set off an almighty scramble for cover.