smelling piggie cage! cant get it to not smell

[lizzie966]

hey guys i know its a silly question because piggies will always be a little smelly but since i live in a shared house i dont want people to get ****y about it so any help would be great. Basicly i have an indoor guinea pig cage 100m by 90m two piggies in ive used woodshavings and fleese and carefresh they get cleaned out twise a week and there both healthy but they stink! advice on anything to put under the bedding I'm using carefresh atm.

 

[ariel&oscar]

It might be worth spot cleaning and changing any soiled bedding/hay every day. I use megasorb which does have it's own funny smell, but it is very absorbant, and I change the hay in theier hidey holes and houses every 2 days to reduce odour. Mine do live outside, but I have a sensitive nose lol! Failing that you could grow a lavender bush in a pot near them as they smell quite nice and might mask the smell ?!? good luck!

 

[William&Keith]

Try using white vinegar each time you clean it out. Let it air and then pop the bedding down.

 

[happyasapig]

its easy to have a sweet smelling cage when there toilet trained. put a corner loo under there hay rack and change it daily, they will pee 95% of the time in it after just a few days, my cage stunk after 3 days untill i did that they p****d everywhere >>> now i think they would wipe there bum if they learnt how, rare that they pee any where else, some one on here said they pee and poo more when they eat so i tried it, top tip

 

[kotov]

Try vet bed and collect dropping twice a day.You can wash vet bed in washing machine.But 1 cage for 2 pigs so small anyway
I think need have 2 such cages for 1 pig and you can service them once a week.
But depends on pigs - some uses toilet(when use one place in cage) some not.
I dont know what it depends from.I got 4 sows and 1 of them always dirty and smelly.

 

[CiaraPatricia]

It might be the fleece, in my experience it starts to smell faster than types of absorbent bedding like shavings. Maybe that's not why, but I found it a bit smelly.

My plan for when I have mine inside is to use shavings and to put on gloves and pick out any poo or wet bedding everyday.

Also if you have boys, they just naturally smell more rolleyes not much you can do about that.

Some foods like too much cabbage/broccoli/kale etc. might make them smellier maybe.

 

[first_time_piggie_mum]

I tried for months to potty train Rodney when he was a pup. It worked for about 3 months but then he just took to sleeping in the litter tray so I took it away.

He would pee and pooh anywhere, he had no preferences lol. Although saying that he would always try to make it back to his cage to pee when he was out having floor time, but would crap wherever he liked. He would never pee on me, and always gave me a warning that he wanted to go if we were having cuddles/lap time.

However, he never smelled even though he was a boar.

 

[Snapdragon]

The only way I get mine to stay wiff-free is sifting out the wee/droppings at least once a day! You can get scented shavings which are good for odour-control.

 

[lissie]

The only way I get mine to stay wiff-free is sifting out the wee/droppings at least once a day! You can get scented shavings which are good for odour-control.

Scented shavings can cause URI. It's not good for the pigs.