Purchasing hutch

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I have a large two story hutch with a large cage attached to the bottom storey, upstairs has a bedroom, a living room and the slope going to downstairs, which i like to refer to as the games room! Downstairs is pretty dark and I leave the lid off of upstairs to let the light in. Downstairs has a door which is the right size to open nicely into a basic indoor guinea cage - 'the extension', which gets loads of light. At the moment Wanda and her baby Smiffy live upstairs (it has a hatch that closes it off from downstairs) and in a couple of weeks I will open the hatch so they can live and play together.

Downstairs has lots of hidey holes and tubes and toys and Ive noticed they are very popcorny - so I am guessing happy - first thing in the morning when I open the curtains and give them straw and hay to play in.

At the moment Jonesy is downstairs with her 2 girls, Harold has another week to go after his castrate before he joins them. I will be keeping Brian (Jonesys other baby that was originally named Briony) as I cannot live with the idea of sending him to live with someone I dont know and the person who was going to take him is now unable too. He is such a happy little guy and they may get bored with him and ignore him!

The cage I have looks big enough at the moment, but obvioulsy I have some youngsters that are going to get quite a bit bigger. I want to keep them together.

I am considering moving them to the shed but am concerned about enough light getting to them.

I need an enormous hutch, but cant seem to locate one, any ideas?
 
how about c and c i love my c and c cage
 
i have the same problem at the moment. i'v got 5 piggys in a large 2 level hutch and i join a run onto the bottom during the day. i'm just waiting to move out with the other half so i can move them into a c & c cage you can make them any shape and size you want :)
 
I want to change to a c&c cage which is raised off the floor so storage underneath. Anyone got any ideas how to raise it off the floor? Also how does a 2nd level like a Hay lift fit? Does it need support?
 
CPHill said:
I want to change to a c&c cage which is raised off the floor so storage underneath. Anyone got any ideas how to raise it off the floor? Also how does a 2nd level like a Hay lift fit? Does it need support?
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These are some of my old cages. You can build the storage with grids.

This one has 1 grid high storage.


This one has 2 grid high storage. I love how much stuff it could store. I also stored a box of hay under the cage.


This cage has 1 grid high storage and I clipped a piece of curtain in front to hide the storage.

You can also get some storage boxes to go into the cubes, Ikea has these that would fit.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00186395
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40133545
 
You will need support for the loft. You can use wood to support the loft.


Or put a grid in an angle to support the loft.


Use lots of zip/cable ties.
 
lissie said:
You will need support for the loft. You can use wood to support the loft.


Or put a grid in an angle to support the loft.


Use lots of zip/cable ties.
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I love this one! I have 4 piggies and think it will be perfect! Thanks so much x
 
You're welcome :) I'm addicted to cage remodeling. I think I've seen pretty much all the cage pictures on guineapigcages.com.

With 4 pigs, I'd go with a 2x6 grids.
 
Can't fit 6x 2 :( but was going to do 5 x 2 with second level. Do you think that's big enough?
 
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