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Ellie-May

Ellie-May

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Hi everyone,

My guinea pigs have two of everything, but I hardly ever see them using the hay racks. Sometimes they do, but whenever I put it on the floor they go straight for it. Does anyone else have this problem or are my pigs just lazy? lol
 
Ellie-May said:
Hi everyone,

My guinea pigs have two of everything, but I hardly ever see them using the hay racks. Sometimes they do, but whenever I put it on the floor they go straight for it. Does anyone else have this problem or are my pigs just lazy? lol
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Personally I dont bother with hay racks, my piggies never really saw the point of them! I have Rosewood corner rabbit litter trays for hay in the fleecy areas of my big cage, but both my cages have 1/4 of the floor space divided off into a separate "hay room" area which is where I put big piles of floor hay :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Personally I dont bother with hay racks, my piggies never really saw the point of them! I have Rosewood corner rabbit litter trays for hay in the fleecy areas of my big cage, but both my cages have 1/4 of the floor space divided off into a separate "hay room" area which is where I put big piles of floor hay :)
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I do see them eating from them, but not as much as when I just place it on the floor. Although they like the big hay piles it just creates so much mess so I'm cleaning more. However, I am going to put them in the play-pen tomorrow and they will be in there for most of the day (supervised of course) so I don't mind doing big hay piles then
 
My boys wouldn’t use a hayrack for ages, they needed hay on the floor. But because they get fed Timothy and it can be stalkier and I have already had them both have a haypoke injury, I put their Timothy in the rack. They now use their racks as much as eating the hay bedding/pile.
 
Piggies&buns said:
My boys wouldn’t use a hayrack for ages, they needed hay on the floor. But because they get fed Timothy and it can be stalkier and I have already had them both have a haypoke injury, I put their Timothy in the rack. They now use their racks as much as eating the hay bedding/pile.
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Maybe it is just something they will need to get use to
 
Piggies&buns said:
This is the racks I also use, positioned low down so the bottoms touch the floor so there is no risk of anybody getting caught on it
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That is what I do, but because they are quite small at the moment lol
 
I don't bother with hya racks. 1 because the cage I use doesn't really make it any use and 2 because of the dangers I have heard about with them
 
I use magazine racks sitting on grow bag trays lined with newspaper as hay racks. Works well. Rest of the cage is fleece so dont want hay directly on that!
 
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