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If necessary, get a baby monitor for "those" days, so you can keep an ear out?

LOTS of good quality hay and pellets instead of muesli. A piggy vet, who has researched this issue, has also found a link between lack of direct sunlight and dental problems indoors piggies in later life. She recommends letting your indoors or shed piggies spend regular time outside (not...

That's really interesting, has she written an journals/papers/similar on it that can be shared?

...enough to be pregnant I don't think. They had at least one hidey each, bags of room, food, water and a massive pile of hay. They also had heat lamps because there's a door at each end so when it's cold I imagine there's a draft. This was the enclosure, as I said, for once I was really pleased!

UV bulbs can be clipped onto the top of the cage, you can buy bulb holders for the job, needs to be about 30cm from the cage floor in order for them to get the benefits, uv bulbs don't provide any heat so you wouldn't be increasing the temperature in the cage with one :)

we bought heat lamps (like the ones for chickens) we put them on timers so they go off when we think it will get cold at night.....hopefully we will get a timered one which will make the lamps go off when it gets under a certain temperature

My guineapigs live outside. they have glass(that we can take out) in the windowy things heat lamps, insulation and fluffy beds! but we still might put them in a garage...

Yup mine keep me awake occasionally, about once a week and on heat. But i find you do get used to the noise. Vegetables an hour before bed and a sunset lamp puts them to sleep while i snooze into deep sleep x

My piggies get time outside on the grass (about 3 out 4 days). They live in our conservatory so get plenty of daylight & some sunlight. In the recent hot spell we've had the roof blinds permanently shut but there's still plenty of light getting in through the windows. I deliberately try to leave...

Awww sweetie x) He's trying to get closer to the heat from the lamp and only has a little sticky up twig to hang on to. He needs a branch underneath it. He's probably cold. Paula

You may have found it already but this thread may be useful, there's one person in there who's set up heating in their hutch and others who have heated sheds. http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=82550&highlight=heating&page=5 You could install heat pads under the hutch or put...

As you can kind of see, his lamp is over the other side of his cage. He's sat on the top of his short tree in these photos. He has a larger tree and a network of artificial branches under his lamp so he can get as close to it as he needs (you can see he's lost some back spines in the side-on...

...with mesh so the guineas don't overheat in the summer. I know that they can suffer in the winter, so I have been looking for overhead heat lamps to put in the shed. It has an electric supply, so I have somewhere to plug in a heat lamp, and there is about enough room to accomodate two guineas...

Thanks for the heads-up about the sawdust guys, and for the heat lamp as well! I'll go for either the heat mat or radiator, so thanks for that. :) I'll make sure I keep the shed well secured as well so they don't get stolen. I should be okay...There are gates either side of our alleys so the...

I've decided I'd like to post a little memorial for my baby Theo. I want to be able to share how amazing and caring he was, it's only what he deserves. Theo came into my life on June 15th 2008, along with his brother Maxi. But straight from the start I knew something was special about him...

...Heating a shed would probably be easier (and safer?) than putting heating in a hutch as you could run electricity to it and then plug in heat lamps/oil heaters. I'm talking about for the piggies of course, not your OH. As for keeping the hutch warm you can by snugglesafe heatpads which...

Sounds lovely having a shed for them but heat lamps I'm not sure about :... Apart from the cost of running them, I'd look for an alternative. Fire risk would be my main concern with anything electrical. Heat pads for piggies are great and stay warm for around 10 hours and properly insulated...

I would not use any kind of electrical heating element in a hutch that size as it will inevitably lead to a fire. My herd of nine live out all year round and they have managed fine in the winter but i do worry about them and would bring them in if i could. I also had 2 boys living outdoors...

Where my piggies sleep at night gets very cold and I would like ideas on how to keep them warmer. I have heard that you can't use heat lamps as this can give them heatstroke! So any ideas would be much liked. :)

That happened to me! Our dog had puppies so we kept her (and them) in her shed with a heat lamp ... I guess it would have been a bit suspicious seeing as they were born in May!