Newspaper Bedding?

[Luckey]

Hi,
I was wondering if you should or should not use shredded news paper for the bedding? and is it bad to use it for flooring?

 

[skrikopanik]

It would probably work, especially if you put hay on top.

Newspaper is not poisonous anymore, they stopped using lead based ink ages ago.

 

[MellyWelly]

My piggies have their hutch lined with newspaper, then a layer of megazorb and loads of hay. It's easy-peasy to lift out when I clean their cottage out. I'm sure shredded paper will do the trick just as well too.
My boys seem happy enough!

 

[caviaporcellus]

I have been trying to litter train my piggies using newspaper bedding. I wash it first so that it comes out looking like a cross between Tesco Ultra-Absorbant Paper Cat Litter and Carefresh but without the horrid smell of the Tesco stuff.

I put it in a cat litter tray. It is 100% successful with my bunny but only semi-successful with the piggies. They do most of their urinating in the box or around it and some of the poos. I also have other little shoebox loos around the floor which they use but I still find some poo all over the place too.

The good thing about it is that it should be biodegradable and I have been emptying the litter tray straight onto the compost heap. I do not know if it makes good compost yet as I have only been doing it for a few weeks.

I put some hay on top too.

 

[KazBB]

I use newspaper to line the bottom of the cage...its really easy to just lift it out

 

[XbeccaX]

we use sheets of newspaper in our hutch then put sawdust & hay on top its good because it soaks up the wee & stops it making the bottom of the hutch soggy.

 

[Luckey]

So would normal paper also work?

 

[Lisa_Ann]

I'm just wondering too, can you shred up normal paper to use as a bedding?

(Thinking of using it in outdoor hutch with layer of newspaper under, and lots of hay on top).

Thanks