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Hey, just a little idea for people that I've found really useful!
I have just made a large cage/pen for my piggies using the grid/cubes/mesh type things which I have to say are BRILLIANT. I was a bit stuck at finding correx (even though I work in a school, in charge of DT, the pieces are too small and noone seems to have heard of it! ?/
Anyway after reading around abit I have found the ultimate alternative (and I'm sorry if someone has mentioned this before)
Picnic Blankets! The ones with the waterproof backing. I have tried and tested them and found them to be fab!
Cost £7 (cheaper than a large bag of safebed)
tightly woven (no loose threads for piggy chewing)
very easy to clean (due to the tight fibres, not alot gets through!)
absorbant (dries quickly too)
machine washable (and amazingly no nasty hair and hay left in machine, unlike vetbed) and very easily available. I have three which I'm rotating every few days (I dustpan/dustbuster every day) and they also match my living room! result!
Anyway they're widely available, particularly in supermarkets atm as it is almost picnic season (haven't you noticed the rain).
I'd love to know if anyone else has tried and had success with these also
I have just made a large cage/pen for my piggies using the grid/cubes/mesh type things which I have to say are BRILLIANT. I was a bit stuck at finding correx (even though I work in a school, in charge of DT, the pieces are too small and noone seems to have heard of it! ?/
Anyway after reading around abit I have found the ultimate alternative (and I'm sorry if someone has mentioned this before)
Picnic Blankets! The ones with the waterproof backing. I have tried and tested them and found them to be fab!
Cost £7 (cheaper than a large bag of safebed)
tightly woven (no loose threads for piggy chewing)
very easy to clean (due to the tight fibres, not alot gets through!)
absorbant (dries quickly too)
machine washable (and amazingly no nasty hair and hay left in machine, unlike vetbed) and very easily available. I have three which I'm rotating every few days (I dustpan/dustbuster every day) and they also match my living room! result!
Anyway they're widely available, particularly in supermarkets atm as it is almost picnic season (haven't you noticed the rain).
I'd love to know if anyone else has tried and had success with these also
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