Cold weather for naked hippos!

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Dont know about anyone else with a drafty cold old house and skinny pigs, but the last couple of nights I've been worried about my little naked chocolate hippo catching a chill!

So I just took affirmative action and made a fleecy tent for the whole C&C using a kingsize hooman bed blanket :)

I've draped the blanket over the radiator too to direct all the heat towards my hippo!

They are a bit perplexed but Tallulah was straight out of her fleecy tube eating hay so it must be a bit less drafty for her, and Ollie will be pleased with it tonight if there are scary new year fireworks.

Stay safe and warm everyone!

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Even with the central heating on I'm struggling to keep the indoor temperature at 16 degrees today, so hopefully a radiator-linked hippo tent will do the job, along with her fleecy furniture and a snugglesafe heat pad!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Even with the central heating on I'm struggling to keep the indoor temperature at 16 degrees today, so hopefully a radiator-linked hippo tent will do the job, along with her fleecy furniture and a snugglesafe heat pad!
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16 degrees? I wouldn't be able to function. Turns out I am a hippo!
 
I used to have the same worries with my little Hippo as well! I love the heated tent area. What I did was make a variety of fleece tunnels for Hippo to lay in. I get -40 temps regularly so the heat was always blasted as well! I tried my best to make it consistently at least 20-22 degrees in my pig room.
 
These temperatures sound great and what a lovely idea making a little tent. I had a bit of panic today I woke up and found that Boo was really pale her ears were white and normally they're very pink. (She is a white coloured Guinea pig though) I looked at the temperature and it was 13.5 degrees and previously the day before it had been around 20. I switched the heating off past midnight to prevent it getting too hot and humid but didn't expect it to drop that much. As soon as the heating reached around 16 degrees she started to show some colour again and now is back to normal. I didn't think it would physically impact them that much. X
 
Its surprising how cold a house can get overnight, I usually have my heating off from midnight to 6am but this week I've set the timer so it comes on from 3am to 3.30 just to keep the chill off! My thermostat is as rubbish as my house insulation lol so I'm having the heating on for half an hour every 3 hours, day and night, until the weather decided to stop hovering around freezing!
 
I bought an electric radiator with a thermostat for the piggy room, so that I don't have to heat the whole house during the night. It seems to work well but our house is double glazed so doesn't cool down too quickly.😀
 
I normally don’t have to have heat on all day since having new windows and finally getting gas radiators a few years ago (I had very old storage heaters for over a decade as I rent so I did the same with electric ones instead!) but I’ve been terrible since the weather’s colder this year, worrying about my newbies being teeny so it’s on from about 7am til 8pm ish atm :yikes:
I’m happy to get under a blanket with the cat but my bubs come first! :doh::)) But my eco-self needs to stop soon now they’re both porkier!
 
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