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Hi, can anyone recommend me a secure outdoor run or how to make one? Ideally needs to be light enough to move to a different area of grass often. What size run would I need for two boars?

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I'm starting to think about outdoor runs too. I have a couple of those sectional metal runs that peg together (I think usually sold as puppy pens or x-pens) but I really dont feel comfortable using those outside. Mine dont have solid tops, they have mesh that you sort of peg over. I think they would leave pigs and rabbits very vunerable.

Before we moved house 2 1/2 years ago I used to have several folding wooden frame runs that were 6 foot by 3 foot. They were fab, you could take the tops off to get in and pick up/put down the animals and it all collapsed down to store in the garage. I paid £40 from my local pet shop and I used to feel quite confident about the guinea pig's safety in them, but nothing like that seems to exist anymore.

I dont know if its the fact that wood has shot up in price? I have seen a much smaller folding wooden run in Pets at Home for almost twice the price! And one in The Range that I was considering.

I do have one of those triangular runs with a hidey house at one end, mine is about 4 ft by 2 ft and was cheap in Home Bargains (it came flat packed) at £30. Its OK but I'm not wild about it ;)
 
Goth Mummy said:
I'm starting to think about outdoor runs too. I have a couple of those sectional metal runs that peg together (I think usually sold as puppy pens or x-pens) but I really dont feel comfortable using those outside. Mine dont have solid tops, they have mesh that you sort of peg over. I think they would leave pigs and rabbits very vunerable.

Before we moved house 2 1/2 years ago I used to have several folding wooden frame runs that were 6 foot by 3 foot. They were fab, you could take the tops off to get in and pick up/put down the animals and it all collapsed down to store in the garage. I paid £40 from my local pet shop and I used to feel quite confident about the guinea pig's safety in them, but nothing like that seems to exist anymore.

I dont know if its the fact that wood has shot up in price? I have seen a much smaller folding wooden run in Pets at Home for almost twice the price! And one in The Range that I was considering.

I do have one of those triangular runs with a hidey house at one end, mine is about 4 ft by 2 ft and was cheap in Home Bargains (it came flat packed) at £30. Its OK but I'm not wild about it ;)
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Yes the 6x3 with top that opens sounds Ideal. Do you have a photo maybe DH can make it for us just need to see how they look.
 
I'm sorry I dont have a photo. The tops were on hinges and secured with bolts.

We should have brought them with us to this new house when we moved but the move turned out to be a very stressful experience (thought the our sale had fallen through and the chain was broken then at the last minute we were told it was going ahead and we were moving!) and I just ran out of time and space to bring hutches and runs with us :( We moved house with 2 large removal lorries.....! Never doing that again.

The guinea pigs were boarded at a friends during the whole house moving hideous process. I didnt leave them behind in the hutches! ;)

Oddly enough the couple who bought the house were mad on guinea pigs too :)
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There is a guy on eBay that sells wired panels cheap to whatever size you want so would that be an option.Can't remember what it's under, poss wire panels.
 
Will c&c grids be safe in terms of if a cat came in the garden? Also it will need to be stored outside will it get damaged by the weather?
 
If you made a roof over the grids and only kept it out during the day, then I'd say that it could work. My cat would be a lot more intersested in the bird flying around on the other side of the garden. As for the weather, if its windy enough, the run would be knocked over, but I doubt that that will happen. I'd also store it indoors or in a shed.
 
I personally wouldnt use c+c grids for an outdoor run unless you are out pottering in the garden with them. I would worry about foxes......
 
I live in an urban area and I have seen foxes around in the evening AND daytime. I love to see wildlife in it's place but am fearful of urban foxes as they have lost their fear of humans.

My piggies are indoors during the winter but my husband will want them outside in a hutch in the summer. Personally, I would prefer to have them indoors overnight all the time.

They love being on grass during the day but, no matter how secure their run is , I would prefer to be around when they are outside.
 
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