Guinea pigs mse style

suejb2

Mervyn can't see where you live, up North here in Manchester I get Fitch bedding for my pigs, two sisters. It's recycled paper product soft and so absorbing, £20 ish delivered or I pick up and it's only £9, for a huge 20 kg that lasts months. Actually Amazon sell it also. Sawdust/ shavings bother them.
Change weekly, line the cage with newspaper and then a couple of inch layer of fitch throughout. Hay in a trough, pellets or nuggets twice a day not guinea pig muesli as they pick out what they want and a bowl of fresh veg morning and evening: handful of kale, couple slices cucumber, quarter pepper sliced. Water changed but mine don't drink a lot.
Their hutch sounds like the one you have, two storey, kept outside March-October then in the shed over winter with a snuggle safe in their bed section to keep them warm. Warm days I have a run for them out on the lawn, moving it around daily I never cut the grass last year as they love grass. I got them from a local rescue at about eight weeks old, tenner each. Anything else you need to know just ask.

Merv987

krlyr wrote: »

For guinea pigs, an alternative many follow is to use a littertray with an absorbant substrate like paper pellets or paper-based cat little (you can bulk-buy Carefresh or Megazorb, for example) and just fleece material on the rest of the cage - this simply needs washing (and will dry very quickly - but cheap enough to have several pieces to rotate)

If I do this, can I hand wash, and/or boil the fleece, rather than wash in the machine? And spot clean any poos that don't make it to the litter tray?

happysaz133

Merv987 wrote: »

Fleece was my other option, but i've heard it can be a bit smelly.

We use fleece, and we shake the poo off every day and they get washed twice a week in the machine. I don't find they smell, certainly no more than hay/shavings (used to use both).

However it maybe depends on the pigs!
DSC_0647 by SK Bell, on Flickr

Scuse the mess around the cage, we were having a clear out at the time
Clean cage by SK Bell, on Flickr