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Cavymama78

Cavymama78

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So my boys get stinky! I know they aren't supposed to be bathed often. Are there things you can do to help the boys not smell like they've rolled in a litter box? I vacuum their pen every day. My girls don't stink at all. I don't want to give them a bath every month and dry out their poor little hides. Suggestions? Advice?
 
What do you mean they stink ! , i have a boy hamster and boy rabbit but my don't stink ! And they are cleaned out every day !

What are they eating ?

Are they rolling in anything ?

Wet wipes i use
 
It depends on the smell you mean really - the piggies themselves should not really smell.
What type of bedding do you use? Hay and litter trays are likely to smell more than the piggies themselves.
How often do you change the bedding?
But, boars scent mark and often the more you clean, the more they’ll mark, the more they’ll smell!
 
They smell like poop. They have fleece bedding. I change the fleece once a week, but vacuum it daily to every other day. They eat timothy hay, lettuce, cilantro, cucumber, and green bell pepper, and timothy hay pellets.
 
The boys don't get along, so they are in a split cage and there's always a lot of poop close to the barrier where they rumble to each other. So maybe it's a marking thing.
 
I’m not sure to be honest. The only smell in my boys’ cage is the occasional scent marking, when their fleece is almost due a change or when their hay tray smells of wee.

Their poop shouldn’t smell offensive...
 
Siikibam said:
I’m not sure to be honest. The only smell in my boys’ cage is the occasional scent marking, when their fleece is almost due a change or when their hay tray smells of wee.

Their poop shouldn’t smell offensive...
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Well, it smells like poop. Lol
I'll get some wipes and use those. :)
 
I don’t really find that guinea pig poo smells, it’s pretty dry and inoffensive. Their urine smells though so maybe cage needs full clean more often than once a week? I tend to sweep ours daily and full clean every 3 or 4 days. I have 2 boys in a 160 cage with hay tray that gets hay removed every couple days and full clean every 4 days. I don’t fully clean the cage and hay tray on the same day as I find they scent mark much more when everything’s lovely and fresh which kind of defeats the point 🙈
I have never cleaned the actual Guineas pigs (both short haired) and they just have an animal smell
 
Our pigs started smelling like a farm after about 8 months of adopting them. We gave them a bath and 2 months later they still smell good.

It's probably the liners - we actually have a surplus of small fleece pads that I put in high traffic areas (so for us it's under their hideys), and I switch these out every 2 days usually, we find it helps keep them fresh. Their hay trays get cleaned 2/3 times a week. For context we only do a full clean once a week, we use bed liners for adult humans with fleece on top and they do the trick.

Also when we wash our pads we add white vinegar to the fabric softener section of the washing machine, this helps keep the pads themselves nice and fresh smelling.

We use this funky smelling pet disinfectant (it's got peppermint oil and some others in) to wipe down the cage when we do a clean, we also spray it into the bin and it pretty much hides the smell from that.
 
I also have indoor piggies so I have to keep up with cleaning their cages.
In the winter, mine are moved to a warm spot away from the windows and doors, so pretty much in the center of the house.
Just recently and to prepare for summer, I moved them to near the windows with indirect sunlight during the day. They don’t have direct sunlight coming into their cages. I also have central air conditioning throughout the house keeping regular temperature through the day.
With the regular cleaning, I don’t have issues with smell from my indoor piggies.
 
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