Really big C&C set ups?

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So we're planning on extending the C&C to what will nominally be 24 square feet but as the grids are 35cm not a foot as I'm measuring up it might be more like 27 or 28 square feet...
Can anyone with a cage that size post some pics please for inspiration? Essentially we have a 5x2 grid C&C with a 3x2 extension already and I've ordered another 3x2 extension.
It could be a huge 6x7x2 L-shape... it could be 8 grids long with a 3x2 extension in the middle but then I couldnt shut the piggy room door... I'm reluctant to make it a basic rectangle as then it would be impossible to catch the piggies and I think they enjoy the long thin seperate rooms set-up...
Please inspire me people with big herds in big C&Cs!
 
Ehhh yes? why I don't know. Maybe that it their living room and it is the only place they can put the tv?
 
anyar.dris said:
Hahaha..I don't know. I follow them in instagtam and she has quite a selection of pets (chins, hamsters, etc.).
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What is their instagram? I'd like to follow them. Edit I've just seen it sorry
 
Yeah one hay tray and 3 water bottles for about 8 - 11 pigs is not enough personally
 
We have 3 waterbottles, a 3x2 hay room, a hay loft, and 3 corner hay trays, for 6 piggies!
But they need more floor space... I'm thinking of an L-shape because thats what we have now. So have a 5x2 fleece area along one wall, joined on to the 3x2 hay room with loft that will go 1 grid into the alcove, then comes down at a right angle to join the new 3x2 area that will be kitchen. Currently our 5x2 section is half fleecy bedroom half kitchen but thats not really enough bedroom or kitchen for 6 piggies...
 
Before I split my lot I had 4 piggies in a 10 x 2 in an L shape.
I will try to dig out some photos later.
But I found the L-shape worked really well, and the piggies loved all of the space.
I put 2 hay trays at each end of the cage (so 4 in total) and had houses, platforms and tunnels around the edges of the cage.
I went with 2 grids wide becasue it is easy to get liners for this size, and a 10 x 2 took 2 5 x 2 liners whch are easy to handle and fit well into my washing machine.
 
Swissgreys said:
Before I split my lot I had 4 piggies in a 10 x 2 in an L shape.
I will try to dig out some photos later.
But I found the L-shape worked really well, and the piggies loved all of the space.
I put 2 hay trays at each end of the cage (so 4 in total) and had houses, platforms and tunnels around the edges of the cage.
I went with 2 grids wide becasue it is easy to get liners for this size, and a 10 x 2 took 2 5 x 2 liners whch are easy to handle and fit well into my washing machine.
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Yes I'd like to stick to 2 grids wide so the fleece fits and so I can catch the piggies! Their playpen is a 6ft x4ft rectangle and catching them out of that is a nightmare, I have to partially fold it up with them inside to get them to go in the hidey tube shuttle bus!
 
anyar.dris said:
I've seen this in instagram.

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Piggies enjoy round spaces as well as long ones - in the first they love to run loops and the second, they love to run up an down. Either work for the piggies, but first and foremost they need to work for you and the space you have the cage in.
This is a picture of my set-up five years ago when I had one big group, one cataract group and one elderlies group as well as a pair of sows that were not getting on with the large group.
My big pen had three large hay trays (one was an adapted 50x100cm cage bottom and another a 30x80 'starter cage' bottom as well as a hay corner on the mezzanine, and several water bottles all over the place plus one large dorm which most sows were using to sleep in plus some other option to get away from the crowd if wanted.
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For picking up a mixture of making your piggies come to you and cornering the reluctant ones is the way to move larger numbers of piggies in a spacious set-up. It is going to take some training, but it is doable with the help of little veg or readigrass treats.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=657772700917655
 
PigglePuggle said:
Impressive but personally I like more hay and waterbottles. And I dont even have a TV myself lol :)
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They don’t really need a tv in that house with all those piggies to watch. :roll:
 
Wiebke said:
Piggies enjoy round spaces as well as long ones - in the first they love to run loops and the second, they love to run up an down. Either work for the piggies, but first and foremost they need to work for you and the space you have the cage in.
This is a picture of my set-up five years ago when I had one big group, one cataract group and one elderlies group as well as a pair of sows that were not getting on with the large group.
My big pen had three large hay trays (one was an adapted 50x100cm cage bottom and another a 30x80 'starter cage' bottom as well as a hay corner on the mezzanine, and several water bottles all over the place plus one large dorm which most sows were using to sleep in plus some other option to get away from the crowd if wanted.
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For picking up a mixture of making your piggies come to you and cornering the reluctant ones is the way to move larger numbers of piggies in a spacious set-up. It is going to take some training, but it is doable with the help of little veg or readigrass treats.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=657772700917655
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I love your set-up and your piggy catching basket- we catch the piggies in hidey tubes but sometimes they are just too quick and run out the other end before we can block them in! I will ask santa paws for a piggy catching basket :)
We only have 6 piggies but somehow 6 seems a lot more than 5 did now they are all living together and interacting and creating trouble! Blodwen is a little madam who has certainly livened things up :)
 
I have a 2 by 4 c and c cage and Chippy doesn't like it because he used to have a 4 by 5 but I didn't have enough time or fleece to cover the whole thing or to make him comfortable so I had to make it smaller but if I got more pigs I'd have a big cage
 
Misty said:
I have a 2 by 4 c and c cage and Chippy doesn't like it because he used to have a 4 by 5 but I didn't have enough time or fleece to cover the whole thing or to make him comfortable so I had to make it smaller but if I got more pigs I'd have a big cage
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2 by 4 C&C is fine.
It is easy to see all these huge set ups and think that your own isn't good enough, but compared to some of the pet shop cages, 2 x 4 is still a palace!
 
Yeah I know that it's fine just mister demanding himself doesn't think it's suitable, but he also told me off yesterday for feeding him sugar snap peas.
 
When we first got the 5x2 c&c I moved a sideboard and got rid of a set of drawers... I moved the giant snails into my bedroom yesterday and now I just need to move a troublesome bookcase to free up 2 whole walls for the new set up! Not sure what to do with the bookcase as it is half full of my textbooks and half full of piggy daddy's signed David Attenborough and Terry Pratchett books so we do sort of need to keep them...
 
This was a past set-up xx

I added more hides to it. However - I admit that in the end I decided that 2 grid wide was easier for cleaning etc. The piggies loves the space though! No such space where I live now, sadly!
 

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