Stained hay trays

[Rivervixen]

Hiya, I use plastic shallow litter trays for their hay as they love diving straight in and eating it that way, the only problem is as they wee and poo in there as well, the more they do it the more the trays are starting to stain and getting bits that don’t want to come off. Is there anything I can scrub with to get these bits out?

 

[piggieminder]

I find leaving a bit of white vinegar on the stains for an hour or two disolves the stains without much scrubbing. The more you scrub and scratch the trays surface the worse they will stain. I keep extra trays so I can put some back in the cage while the stained ones are soaking.

 

[Wiebke]

Hiya, I use plastic shallow litter trays for their hay as they love diving straight in and eating it that way, the only problem is as they wee and poo in there as well, the more they do it the more the trays are starting to stain and getting bits that don’t want to come off. Is there anything I can scrub with to get these bits out?

Warm white/cleaning vinegar, left to steep for a quarter of an hour will do the trick.

 

[piggieminder]

I love this forum I learn something new everyday! I'll try warming the vinegar next time and see if it works quicker.

 

[DMS260820]

White vinegar is what I would use too. I clean crusty taps with it, and the calcium crust falls off after about 5 minutes. Cutting a lemon in half and shoving it on the end of a tap works too, so probably would work for cage cleaning aswell. And kettle descale, that would work, aslong as you made sure it was all wiped out before the pigs have access

 

[Siikibam]

Vinegar is a good go to cleaning agent! Do you put something in the litter tray?

 

[Rivervixen]

Thank you all, will definitely use vinegar! I don’t put anything in there but hay

 

[Betsy]

I line my hay trays with pee pads that I change every few days.

 

[Rivervixen]

I think I’ll do this as well as they get so messy, piggies really just do go toilet anywhere lol

 

[Swissgreys]

I line mine with newspaper, so everything can be composted when I clean them out.
Here we also get special concentrated white vinegar especially for cleaning so it might be worth looking in the cleaning isle and seeing if you can find some of that too.

 

[piggieminder]

I line mine with newspaper or back2nature pellets depending on how well off we are for newspaper. I've got some Megasorb on order to try next as it will work out cheaper than back2nature. I do like b2n though, it's brilliant in the veg patch for breaking up our very heavy clay soil.

 

[Rivervixen]

Thank you all - some brilliant advice, going to start lining the trays and cleaning them with white vinegar

 

[PigglePuggle]

I do love the helpful tips that turn up on the forum, my haytrays are rather crusty too so I'll be ordering some white vinegar and that's a job for piggy daddy during his school half term week! We line ours with newspaper (4 or 5 layers!) but in 24 hours its a soggy mess... Ollie pig eats disposable beddings like they are pellets so not many options except newspaper in that cage!

 

[DMS260820]

I do love the helpful tips that turn up on the forum, my haytrays are rather crusty too so I'll be ordering some white vinegar and that's a job for piggy daddy during his school half term week! We line ours with newspaper (4 or 5 layers!) but in 24 hours its a soggy mess... Ollie pig eats disposable beddings like they are pellets so not many options except newspaper in that cage!

Like Mr bean eating twigs with marmite instead of twiglets, you gota try it lol