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This is our new 4×2 c&c cage with a 2x1 loft. The cubes were from wayfair £34.00 and they arrived very quickly. The correx was from eBay. Sorry I can't remember the exact price but I think it was £26.00 for 3 pieces of 4x8 ft pieces.
The 1st floor are 2 pigloos and over one I have put a slight level with a snuggle bag and a little blue fleece forest. The top floor has a hay rack, fleece forest and a dog teddy. The ramps I made out of bent wire grids and carpet.
In the paper bags are ready grass and they are hidden in different places every couple of days.
The cage is home to two very happy popcorning piggies. They love zooming around and leaping and diving under all the tunnels etc.
 
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This is my new C and C cage as described above. It's taken me ages to manage to download the photographs and I'm sorry they are sideways!
The cage is standing on three Ikea £5 with a plastic table cloth that matches the fleeces in the cage. Underneath the tables are three large plastic boxes which contain all the hay and food etc.
 
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Here's my updates C&C/homemade Setup :)

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Flutterby said:
Here's my updates C&C/homemade Setup :)

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Here is my 3 story, segregated middle home made C and C cage for my 4 boars ( 2pairs) the top level belongs too snowy and pedro, and a bottom level homing Jax and Revel. The middle level has been sectioned off and is used as a 'hay den' for both pairs - caged off from each other, just soo they can get used too each others presence! Hope you all like it image.webpView attachment 26727
 

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So what else would you do on Easter Sunday except get your tools out and extend your piggy house? We had a 4.5 x 2 C&C cage and have now extended the loft to a mezzanine floor along the back of the cage. As it was 4.5 squares this meant buying wire cutters to get the half panels for the top floor, and to build a guard around the ramp which now comes up through the new floor rather than to the edge of the loft (also finding my old rasp/file to smooth the edges) Also ran (and tied ) a piece of wooden baton from end to end under the mezzanine to support). Being Easter of course the correx shop is closed so made do with cardboard and fleece for today. Three girls and a neutered boy live here and they love going up and down the ramp so maybe planning a little top space next.....
 
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This is where Cap and Six live, it is a 7x3 C&C cage (it now has a divider down the middle because they have fallen out unfortunately :( )
£5 for the correx from Wickes
£17 for 30 grids from Costco, also used some from their old cage which were from ebay (we have plans for a hay loft!)

Fleece is about £15 for 3m. I use Asda Bed Mats underneath which are £3 for 10 and I think we use 6 per clean out, as well as extra newspaper under their favourite spots... which I get for free on my commute every day haha
 
My c & c cage is three levels and houses six piggies. A neutered male oscar, and his girlfriends Esme, Ellie, Ginger, and squeak. They live in the upper levels and Lucy and her two babies live currently in the bottom level.image.webp
 
Steph linden said:
My c & c cage is three levels and houses six piggies. A neutered male oscar, and his girlfriends Esme, Ellie, Ginger, and squeak. They live in the upper levels and Lucy and her two babies live currently in the bottom level.View attachment 27140
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That's brilliant! We'd have more piggies if I could afford more insurance (or vets fees) :-(
Could I ask you some questions about your cage please?
1. What have you used to support each level, especially the little extra to the top left? I'm worried about the floors dipping and caving in.
2. It looks as if you have a gap between the top of the front panels on first level , and start of second level (or is it just me) ? How did you manage that?
3. How do you get in to clean?
Thank you
 
Hello,

I don't know if anyone can help or have any ideas. We lost our boar on Sunday so we need to build a C&C which will allow our now single boar to interact with the 3 sows that we have below his cage.

This is his cage - If anyone has any ideas on how to adapt it or has pictures with examples of what I can do, please let me know.



PS - the boar (Big E) doesn't really like ramps :/ maybe someone has an idea on that too if I need to add ramps.
 
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Florrieberry said:
That's brilliant! We'd have more piggies if I could afford more insurance (or vets fees) :-(
Could I ask you some questions about your cage please?
1. What have you used to support each level, especially the little extra to the top left? I'm worried about the floors dipping and caving in.
2. It looks as if you have a gap between the top of the front panels on first level , and start of second level (or is it just me) ? How did you manage that?
3. How do you get in to clean?
Thank you
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I used cable ties the 75lb ones and a lot of them about 500 for the whole cage. To support the bottoms I just used grids. The little wing out to the left is very strong I tried to do it with two grids but it wasn't strong so I could only do one grid out like at.

In the photos you can see that the cage is three grids high so I just put each level at a grid and a half that gave me the gaps. To clean them I just flip open the doors. On the second level the ramp clips up so I can clean the level also I can walk my piggies up to the very top to clean the middle so they are not in my way. image.webpimage.webpimage.webp
 
20150418_121912.webp Newly extended c&c piggy palace from 2 to 3 floors. Have shavings covered by hay on ground floor , and fleece on two upper floors. Luckily a stool just about fits under the adapted table the cage is on or I couldn't clean the top! Our 4 piggies love ramps so now they have two!
 
Here's my 2x4 C&C cage. I decided to order the whole thing online (am I allowed to post the link?). I didn't want to spend ages sourcing the parts (lazy me!) so all I needed to do was assemble it, which was easy.

The fleece shown in the photo is from Ziggy's Piggies.
I am also using fleece I bought from Store 21 (2 for £6). For that fleece I put a towel on the bottom, then the fleece.
I worked out where their toilet area was, then put a puppy pad down (8 for £1 in Wilkinsons), with an all purpose cleaning cloth from Wilkinson's on top. The puppy pad and towel got damp from wee but the fleece and cloth stayed dry :) Ziggy's fleece only went in last night so I can't really comment on that yet.

Two girls live in the cage.
I am so pleased I got this, it takes 5-10 minutes to poo pick and feed in the morning and night. Every three days I'll be doing a fleece and towel change, and that only took 10-15 minutes. I won't be looking back from C&C now!SAM_2283.webp
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Wow there's such a lot of wonder set-ups, if I show my piggies they could well get a case of habitat-envy!
Here's mine. It currently houses three piggies. They did live together but are now split sadly, with one sow on the top two levels and two sows on the bottom. The sow on the top will hopefully have a boar companion soon (neutered) :)
The picture shows the set-up with the run attached, making the entire bottom level the equivalent of a 4x6 C&C grid cage. The bottom level has a door which, when up, gives is a 4x2 grid dimension. The next two floors up are also 4x2, and the top floor is a hay-loft of 4x1.
Also when the bottom door is up I can place a towel over it to make it seem as if its a slid wall, and have a tunnel-ramp going down from a little door in the front of the 3rd level up (the top 4x2) down to the pen for my lone sow to have a run.

The habitat was bodged together by myself using metal grids and four conveniently-sized very strong panels from a compost heap, and Correx for the lining. I would have used C&C, only the top level had to be built around shelf-supports and I needed something I could cut, file and shape, hence using metal grids. I'm chuffed to bits with the compost heap grids - super-strong and just the right size!
 
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My DIY cage using an IKEA table 150cm by 75cm for my 3 piggies. It is divided down the middle at the moment as I'm trying to bond the newest piggy with my bonded pair...fingers crossed they can live together soon as they don't have much space each at the moment :(
 
Hello, This is my custom built cage. Built from 2 x Argos pine bookshelves and corotherm. Its equivalent to 2 storeys at 2x5 grids and the kitchen level on the top is approx 2x3 grids.

My three boys - Memphis, Dougal and Rusty live in here! :)

Its fairly easy to clean but because I'm short - I need a stool to reach the kitchen! :)

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Cage Type: C&C
Where it was purchased or how it was made: Grids & connectors from Grendle UK. Correx from Ebay.
What size it is: 2 x 5 with a 1 x 2 loft.
How many piggies are kept in it: 3
How easy it is to keep clean/if you'd recommend it: Easy to access and clean because of the open top. If the loft were any bigger I imagine it would be difficult to get to the back! I would recommend having fleece liners for a C&C.

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I've been meaning to do this for a long time! The fleece and cage is a bit messy right now (also empty as haven't put toys in yet) so excuse any marks etc please.

Cage Type: C&C cage with a C&C stand
Where it was purchased or how it was made: Correx and grids from eBay (correx obviously DIY :)))
What size it is: 2 x 7
How many piggies are kept in it: Three gorgeous piggies
How easy it is to keep clean/if you'd recommend it: The fleece is something I haven't tried for a long time, so I'm slowly doing a better job of it. It depends on how you work with fleece. The kitchen bit is pretty easy, only few stray pieces of hay to pick up every so often. The correx, with all the tape and uneven edges, is a pain at times.

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Iceprincessx said:
I love your cage! I'm wanting to make something like this. Could you please tell me how you made it?
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Of course! So here is the table http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S39932623/#/S09929641 they do other sizes if you want bigger or smaller. The table legs are separate and £2.50 each. Then you want to buy either melamine board or conti board which I used as B&Q didn't have any white melamine left. I used 30cm (width so piggies can't just out and 15mm thick...here's the link http://www.diy.com/departments/conti-mfc-furniture-panel-white-l2440mm-w305mm-t15mm/66183_BQ.prd You'll need to to get 2 to do the 3 sides if you use the same size table as me (They do do a shorter piece of wood so can get one big and one small). Then get the man in B&Q to cut into 2 pieces 75cm long for sides and 1 piece 147cm for the back (you need to minus 3 cm to account for the side pieces being 1.5cm thick each) Then get some corner brackets like this...http://uk.dhgate.com/product/furniture-cabinet-fastener-corner-braces/216950988.html?utm_source=pla&utm_medium=GMC&utm_campaign=ux168car&utm_term=216950988&f=bm|216950988|019027-Furniture|GMC|Adwords|pla|ux168car|GB|019027004-FurnitureAccessories|t|OSLNBL|&gclid=CjwKEAjwitKtBRCt3uOYsY2v7FASJACJU5XsZXzEbk3yr_dBXpGr7lbMG3T6Nsn4cPtRht8DIDfjxhoCc8Hw_wcB
You can get from Hombase for £1.99 but can't find the link. So I literally got some no more nails glue and put that on to 2 end edges of the long piece and stuck the 2 sides on, left 24 hours to try then screwed the corner brackets on for extra strength. The you want to put no more nails glue on the table all along the edge where the 3 sides will go. Lift the 3 sides that are already stuck together and plonk on top! Leave to dry. You could put more corner brackets on to attach to the table but I wanted my fleece to lie flat so didn't bother. I just then used some aquarium safe sealant around the edges. You want to buy either acrylic or Perspex at least 3mm thick, then I used no more nails tape along the bottom where the Perspex attaches to the table and no more nails glue along the sides :)
 
Kerrie74 said:
Yeah but it's collecting that as well!
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Oh yeah....ok only other thing is to order a bookshelf and use that, can got one online with cheap delivery if you look hard. I loved the one I made out of a bookcase, mine was IKEA but you can get loads from other places, just got to look hard for the right dimensions :) image.webp
 
Cage Type: C&C cage
Where it was purchased or how it was made: g r e n d l e online shop (UK), correx from local sign maker
What size it is: 2x4 grids, 150cm x 77cm
How many piggies are kept in it: 3
How easy it is to keep clean/if you'd recommend it: Yes! Cleaning is simple, sweep out shavings with a dustpan, roll up the newspapers and wipe down with petsafe wipes, dry for a few minutes and refill! I never knew how much fun having indoor piggies could be! 2 of my 3 boys popcorn about 5am everyday :)

I fold a thin fleece over the roof of the cage at night as I'm wary of them having draughts under my window!
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Cage Type: C&C
Where it was purchased: Silver grids are the B&Q ones I got 5 years ago for my rabbit, white are Seville 8 cube from Amazon @ £39.99. They're slightly smaller than the B&Q ones. Also a wooden dowel from B&Q cut in half for the two hayloft supports. We've done it this way so the top can be flipped up to clean the bottom. 4mm correx used for the base, and 2mm used for the ramp with two bent B&Q grids.
What size it is: 5x3 base with 2x2 hayloft and 1x1 ramp landing.
How many piggies are kept in it: Two
How easy it is to keep clean/if you'd recommend it: Very easy! The hayloft is lined with newspaper so this is changed daily and the base once a week. It's one picnic rug (£2.99 @ Poundstretcher on clearance at the mo') and a Primark fleece throw with newspaper underneath. We spot clean the poops daily - it helps there are two of us to do this! If you have the patience to make the cage then I'd assume you have the patience to clean it :)) The lining is fixed on with foldback clips, so just unclip!

Base before loft was added (wooden pegs replaced with foldback clips):
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Loft added with wooden support. You can sort of see how the white Seville grids are sliiiightly smaller:
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Cage type: c&c
Where was it purchased: grids were £25 on ebay and the corrugated plastic base was £20 from ebay (which I only used half of but is only 2mm thick)
What size is it: 2x7 grids
How many pigs are kept in it: 2
How easy to clean, if you'd recommend it: yep, plenty of room, sturdy and safe. Probably wouldn't be such a cheapskate in future and buy such a thin, flimsy cheap base though. The pigs just chew through it without fleece covering it. Lol
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image.webp My two boys unfortunately don't get along very well but have supervised floor time together and their cages are side by side with c&c divider. I bought the grids from ebay (both cages are 4x2) and they are ontop of a sheet of correx then a few layers of newspaper and fleece on top. I decided not to bend the correx up around the cage just because I didn't see the need to so the grids are just placed on top of the sheet of correx. I did plan to make a 2x1 loft each but couldn't really find how to make a ramp. So here's a pic of my boys cage. The hay racks are also made from bent c&c grids and their little dens are a grid ontop of the cage with pieces of fleece tied to it.
 
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