Can a Malm ottoman bed be a suitable enclosure?

[Sezzy16]

Hi everyone, I just have a quick question....I have an IKEA ottoman double bed (the one in the pictures) if my 2 young boars, Caroline and Bonnie (my daughter has a thing for The Vampire Diaries and had already used all the good boys names with the rats, rabbit and hamster so went with the girls names ) decide not to get along, there's been lots of rumblestrutting and chasing each other over the last week but that could be because they now live in the enclosure attached with my older neutered boar, adult but age unknown, Nicklaus and his new, 2 year old, wife Hayley. So would it be possible to cut holes in the bottom of the frame and put mesh over the holes with corraplast to protect the floor for them? I would leave the bed in the up position thro the day for daylight and have the led lights along the top edge of the bed for when it gets dark early in winter.
I'm just thinking about how I can use my space as my GS puupy is in the living room, my kitten in my daughter's room, my son's room and kitchen are just too small and my bunny is in a playpen in my bedroom which is partly under a section of the guinea pig enclosure with the hamster on my desk and the rat enclosure is in the small bit of space left against the wall so I'm short on space....

 

[Siikibam]

It would make a good size even if you had to split it. But I would leave it open and not put the bed part on top. You could then cut correx to fit the base. And I’m sure you could fashion a lid, maybe out of grids, due to the puppy and kittens.

Are you planning to move the boars to a different room then? Could you stack the cages so they’re above the sow and boar pair?

 

[Sezzy16]

@Siikibam if I didn't have the bed part on top I wouldn't have anywhere to sleep!
The puppy doesn't come upstairs mainly because he's a long haired German Shepherd and there's enough of his floof in the living room and that the kitten hates him (you'd think it would be the other way around!). The kitten stays in my daughter's room as he's fascinated with my rats but when he goes near their cage the rats try to bite him (again you'd think it would be the other way around!).
I don't have room to put my 2 young boars in another room, I'm trying to work out if I have to put them in a separate space where it could be. I suppose I could put them on top of Nicklaus and Hayley as I already have to get the ladder out to reach a part of their enclosure in the corner of the room as it's on top of a chest of drawers and I'm only 5' 4"....the joys of being short

 

[Siikibam]

Perhaps you could put them in a two tier hutch, as long as the hutch is a suitable size for the boar pair. Putting the bed down would make things dark. And ventilation as well...

 

[Little Ones]

As a vampire diaries fan, the names made me chuckle.
Definitely don’t put the piggies inside a bed though. The thought of that slightly horrifies me. I’m not sure how they’d even be able to breathe properly in there. Also a plank on the bed could break in the night. That’s happened in our house before and a pointy wood piece stuck down like a spear (the wood split and snapped). I would be so scared of something happening to a piggy on the off chance it happened

 

[Piggies&buns]

I don’t think using the bottom of the bed and then sleeping on it is a good idea. Ventilation would be greatly reduced, the risks of injury as highlighted above.

 

[T-Rex]

As someone who’s bed has broken whilst I am sleeping on it (!) I really wouldn't like to think of piggy’s living under my bed.
It sounds like you are short on space and trying to maximise it which I understand. Maybe you could make some space by using the bed to store your piggy stuff instead and have a rejig to fit another enclosure elsewhere?