Vet Bed Cage Photos Please

[LennyPig]

I am considering a change to Vet Bed...

Can everyone please post photos of cage set ups using Vet Bed and also please write your comments on how easy to clean it is an how you avoid hay all over it?

Thanks

 

[chocco slave]

Hi Chocco and Marvins cage is in the hutch gallery. been using vet bed for a few months now.
I dont really have that much of a problem with hay as i have a seperate area for it upstairs. I sweep up poos 2ce a day and on clean out day give a quicj hoover before popping it in the washing machine.

Just a note: the first few times you wash vetbed ensure you clean out the filter as its really fluffy at the start.

 

[Deb H]

I have been using vetbed for around a month now. I clean out all the poo every day, usually morning and before bed. I wear latex gloves to do this and as once the poo is picked up rub my hand over the fleece with gathers all the loose hay (and fur - my long hair is constantly shedding) into a pile which I then throw away. It is by far the easiest bedding i have ever used with the added benefit of not being dragged through the house. My girls are happier on it too as sawdust and megazorb made the long hair grumpy with really sensitive skin. I too have looked at the vet bed on ebay and am thinking of getting more so I can was the fleece more often (it can get a little smellier).
Hope this helps

 

[Alicia]

I have a couple of layers of newspaper and vetbed on top in the sleeping bit, and the other bit has just newspaper, because of the shape of my hutches it's a bit difficult to get vetbed the whole way round.

One of my hutches:

Sorry mine's nothing special I just thought I'd add the photos anyway

I found it quite difficult to use at first but I think that was because I wasn't used to it. I don't think it's good for any more than 3 guinea-pigs in one hutch or cage. I recently changed all my sows back onto woodshavings because the vetbed was wet quickly. I tried puppy pads underneath the vetbed for a while but my guinea-pigs were pulling it up and I was worried they'd eat it, though if you secure it under they probably wouldn't. I now use it in 2 of my 4 hutches and it is quite good, and at the end of the week I hose it and scrub it and let it dry and then it's ready to use again. It doesn't smell if you clean it regularly. I normally change it once a week and I have spare pieces cut to size for when the other lot is drying.

 

[Niki]

I am considering a change to Vet Bed...

Can everyone please post photos of cage set ups using Vet Bed and also please write your comments on how easy to clean it is an how you avoid hay all over it?

Thanks

I've no pics but i do use it in indoor cages. I've never kept hay off it tho' but it does brush off easily with a stiff brush

 

[red1800]

Just a bump - thinking of a change to vet bed myself