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well Mia has gone to the rescue now,and is specifically listed as very unsafe with any small furries,she has her own sofa and heat lamp while she awaits her new home.

This may sound bonkers ;D but my OH is an electrical engineer and has made me a heat lamp for the shed. It consists of a 100watt lightbulb inside a metal biscuit tin. How he made it was very simple he used an old lamp connection drilled a hole to put lightbulb inside. Then drilled lots of holes...

How did he make the heat lamp? I think you've told us about it before but I can't rememember?

Sorry cant post pic of heat lamp havent worked out how to do it yet >My son is going to show me when he comes home this weekend.

Thanks so much to all of you for the great advise. We have since bought some heat pads for them so we'll see how we get on. We do have electricity in the shed so it may be worth thinking about a heat lamp but i'm worried about the potential fire hazard :( i don't want anything to happen to them...

Jane my convector heater is expensive to use even though its on a thermostat it eats at the electric . I use a heat lamp too which my husband made and is very cheap to run but I am waiting for him to make another as one does not give out quite enough heat to be able to swap them from house to hutch.

Sounds like a good idea, my piggies share their room with the tortoises so the tortoise heat lamp keeps the room warm on the cold mornings...not that its ever as cold as a shed would get cos they live indoors ;D

My heat lamp was made by my husband who is a qualified elecrical engineer ;) so it is more than safe and not a fire hazard it was properly tested before being put into use ;) would not offer something that is perfectly safe to use in my shed or anybodys elses :)

If you have a wickes by you they are selling thermal insulator (silver stuff) for a tenner and its a large roll will do your roof no problems. You can also use curtains over the top of hutches as suggested, I have a heavy lined curtain over the door. Heat pads are expensive but some people on...

Do you have electric powered into the shed at all? If you do you could make a heat lamp or I could ask my Husband to make you one :) I had a single boar years ago that lived in an unheated shed during the winter and he lived to a ripe old age :) If you would like them in the house now would be...

oohhh forgot to ask if any of you use infa red heat lamps, and what do you think of using these instead of panel heaters?

...how best to keep them tonight. I'm at my wits end, not knowing if i should be keeping them warm or cooling them down. He put them under heat lamps, and said there body temperature was fine but their heart beat was slow. we are at a loss, we were holding them and they seem responsive. we...

Hello Les, Piggies are indoors in winter in a 8by10 foot shed heated as described with pig lamp. One side of outdoor run is open but piggies are locked in shed over night. Grass iss raked over with springbok rake and this gathers up most of the droppings along with bits of straw...

I've just tucked mine in under their ikea duvet with heat lamp & heat pad - I swear its warmer in there than in here!

a close up of my trios hutch and then there floor space albie and dougals cage the whole lot. They have a heater and a lamp which generates heat so they can stay warm and lots of hay, the shed is also insulated. I am in the process of making albie and dougals side a little bigger.

My guineas used to live loose in a big shed and they had an infra red lamp on at night. They used to love this. I'd open the door and they'd be lying in a circle underneath it. We didn't notice that they were expensive but they don't last that long. The problem is when they run out, it could be...

think infra red cost a fortune to run and my shed is lined with lino £19.99 from b and q perfect fit, and if using cc grid type runs mine is lined floor and half way upsides with corrulux waterproof cardboard type stuff, good luck Paula you will guarantee happy piggys

Thanks for the warning Its perfectly safe and has been properly tested the bulb inside the tin so if it did burst the glass would be in the tin and is well away from the piggies. Think Rob would have a fit if I asked him to make loads ;D ;D but saying that if I had a dozen biscuit/roses/quality...

I was getting a little concerned about my girls in the shed - whether they are warm enough e.t.c they get snuggle safe's etc and a thermostatic heater bags of hay & cardboard boxes with blankets over the top etc. The shed is insulated too. But as a neurotic cavy slave I wanted more for my girls...

I would say: tasty food & clean water; company; safe environment - in other words I think they're at their most happiest when they're sitting in a group round a huge pile of grass in a sheltered spot. I don't think there's anything wrong with them being outside in a shed if it's...