Using hay to cover the piggies home floor

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I've tried fleece and towels, but my two boars are soooo messy weeing and pooing everywhere so within 24 hours it is really smelly and wet through and my boars are indoor pigs, so I can't really use that, plus I can't keep up with the laundry changing them daily.

I've tried puppy pads too but it's the same as above and the piggies eat them all up!

I've been using woodshavings for 5 months which seems to control the smell and absorbs the wee so they're never wet, but i can't imagine it's too comfortable and the dust must get on their throats. Also they seem to get up the boys' willies and it's not nice for them when I have to pull it out.

So, yesterday I put a thick layer of hay on the flooring, nothing underneath apart from newspaper and it seems to be doing a mighty fine job.

Is it ok to keep on using hay for the boys' flooring?

Thanks in advance :)
 
That is fine, but they will need a constant supply of fresh eating hay, as after they have layed and pee'd and poo'd on the floor stuff they wont eat it.

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Thanks toffeewoffee, I'll get their hay rack out so they can eat the eating hay there. Nice to know we have found a bedding that suits them at long last!
 
It always takes time to find something that suits you and the piggies, i did not get along with fleece, i found that all of the fine dusty bits of hay got stuck to the fleece and after 3 washes, much shaking, and brushing it would still not come off.

Hay on newspaper was ok and easy to manage because you just roll it up and replace and its done in 5 mins, but it smelt so quickly and with 4 piggies just didn't work for me, there was a lot of waste and was rather expensive.

I use a thcik layer of newspaper, then a thick layer of shavings then a load of soft finely chopped russel bedding straw and hay in a hay rack, i do have to spt clean under the hay rach every other day as the waste hay doesn't get eaten but gets pee'd and poo'd on so does start to smell, but i just use a carrier bag turned inside out to grab a handful then replac with fresh straw.

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I use fleece or vet bed on the bottom of my 2 storey indoor cage and newspaper with hay on the top level which i change twice daily because i have 3 piggies and they sleep 6ft from my nose ,so bad smells are a no no - I get a big bale of hay from a local farmer - it lasts me about 3 weeks / a month for 5 pigs.
 
I have also tried various bedding, fleece the smell killed me in a small room, cut up cardboard ok but I get the impression the gang didn't like standing on it, much happier on newspaper and hay with a little wood shavings in each corner. Fresh hay twice a day and cleaned out once or twice a week.
 
TAN said:
I use fleece or vet bed on the bottom of my 2 storey indoor cage and newspaper with hay on the top level which i change twice daily because i have 3 piggies and they sleep 6ft from my nose ,so bad smells are a no no - I get a big bale of hay from a local farmer - it lasts me about 3 weeks / a month for 5 pigs.
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Forgot to add the hay only costs £4 a bale and i split it into 6 / 8 black sacks and store in my shed.
 
I use hay for my boys, and it works well for them. I think hay is my favorite type of bedding for smaller cages (it would cost me a fortune - and make my house more of a farm than it is in the huge C&C cage).

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