Fleece Liners

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After happily using Aubiose and Easibed with my piggies for a year, I'm looking into swapping to fleece liners. This is because I've recently moved house to a whole other county and I can no longer easily access putting piggy waste in the garden waste bin.

I've heard about the ones with the absorbent layer in the middle. What's that layer made from? And do you have to use something absorbent underneath as well? If yes, would a thin layer of Aubiose work for that? I do have some newspaper, but all of it goes to be hamster/ mouse nesting material and I can't spare any for absorbing piggy pee.

Where do people buy them from? And what's the going rate for one to fit C+C thats 2x4? Trying to work out costs so I can decide how many ones I can afford to buy re. washing and swapping them over.

Any more help for questions I've not asked would be great. I appreciate this is probably a question that's asked a fair amount.
 
@acapae I've not used them for many years so someone else will be able to give you ideas on where to get them from.

I found them to be great but they take forever to dry so you need a few spare. I didn't use anything underneath and they didn't leak pee through them.

Also, mine shrunk a little so I'd recommend getting them a bit bigger than the cage size.
 
I use liners. For the middle absorbent layer I use

Zorb. Expensive lightweight and absorbent

Washable incontinance pad. Heavy, absorbent

Mattress protector, lightweight not as absorbent as zorb but perfectly fine. Good value

I line my cages with lino and dont put anything under the liners.

I give my guinea pigs hay trays with hemp beddi g under the hay where they do most of their wees. The cage liner goes under their beds where they like to chill.

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i use ziggypiggys liners and c and e liners,ziggypiggy uses antibacterial toweling take longer to dry,but best priced liners and customer service is five star,also thicker so better on the piggies feet.
c and e liners use zorb which absorbs much more moisture quickly,is lightweight,drys within one hour,lasts a longtime,ive had my liners 3 years.not the cheapest.but both liners do not require anything underneath .just maybe extra pads in places of high wee,eg houses,where hay and veg are given !
 
I'm not able to make my own, so it would definitely be a case of buying from someone else. Would buying two so that I have one in use, and one drying work out? I have two piggies in a 2x4 if that helps?

The lightweight moisture-absorbing and drying quickly one sounds appealing to me! I shall go and google all the shops, thanks all :)
 
acapae said:
I'm not able to make my own, so it would definitely be a case of buying from someone else. Would buying two so that I have one in use, and one drying work out? I have two piggies in a 2x4 if that helps?

The lightweight moisture-absorbing and drying quickly one sounds appealing to me! I shall go and google all the shops, thanks all :)
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yes two liners would work very well,have one washing and drying as the other is in use !
 
Ah damn it, the "buy now"/ "put it in basket" button for www.candecosies.co.uk doesn't exist! Have they stopped making stuff?

The sort with towelling inside sounds both like they'd take longer to dry and also be much heavier? Needing to contact for a price is effortful. @mshappy89 do you have a link for pawsup? google just gives me this unrelated website www.pawsup.com
 
I also use fleece, but in a easier way... I am totally satisfied of my method; that is: a simple piece of fleece used as a bedlinen and underneath a layer of papers from the supermarket (I can get loads of those flyers here). Also newspapers work very well, but the flyers are more practical. During the daily floor time I remove the leftovers and the poo, hanging outside the fleece. I wash the fleece maybe twice or once a week.
As you can see, nothing special... but I have no cost and the piggies are comfortable. Moreover I have no smell at all in the living room where the cage is.
this is the layer of paper underneath the fleece:
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Then, when my new sewing machine arrived I started sewing some pad for the dolls beds and other hideys. That is made of two layers of fleece (from an old blanket) sewn together (very easy!).
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under this pad there is the usual paper from supermarket which absorbs the wee protecting the wood of the bed.
Fleece and newspapers are useful also for another good reason: you can check the residuals of the wee, its colour and similar things. In case of doubt, you can also show the piece of paper or the fleece to the vet.
Unfortunately the fleece has also a lot of hair of the piggies, which is impossible to remove and when I washed fleece and my daughters' DARK trousers in the same washing, you can imagine the result (and the screams!)... all the white hair stuck on their black trousers and on the drum of the washing machine! From then on I started using a special bag (horse bag?) for separating the fleece.
If you need one (or more) of these bags send me a private message; I can send you some, they are extremely cheap here (1€ each) and can be sent into an envelope.
 
I have a horsebag already - it's like 10yrs old and still going strong. It wasn't as cheap as your ones though, hah! However I have 0 access to flyers/ magazines etc. (and as said above my limited supply of newspaper already has a destination).
 
mshappy89 said:
I don't use my horse bag it's too big for my machine
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maybe mine is not a horse bag... I don't know the proper name, it is a bag made of a thin nylon material (a net) with a zip on a side. The bag is about 40cm x 40cm; people here use such bags for protecting special clothes, such as bras and delicate underwears... but the net is useful for blocking the hair of the fleece...:) The first time I made a mess!:mal:
 
Ahha thanks for the info! I'd looked at their blog posts but couldn't see anything about that. What annoying timing for me, but a very valid reason their end.

I've messaged ziggy's and asked about pricing. @Kellykels how did you get hold of that brand - it looks American?

eta - has anyone any experience with these? https://www.pamperedpiggies.org.uk/page/cageliners
 
I had some cosies and a liner from pampered piggies boutique,the items are very well made.the liner has just wadding in which i found collected all the wee,then leaked out ! i had to put puppypads under the liner.i do have 4 piggies in a 6x2 c and c !ziggypiggy liners in my experience are more absorbent ! i change the liners once aweek !
 
I have gone for the considerably cheaper option of using washable incontinence pads topped with fleece. One of my friends who used to have piggies helped with what bits to buy. And I'll have a microfibre towel layer at their heavy usage end longterm too, but for money-saving I've bought them direct from China.

How many times do I want to was the fleece before use - is it 2 or 3? And what washing machine settings for that?
 
I guess it depends on the quality of the fleece...
I washed mine only once before using them: 50°C, a quite washing cycle (2 hours). The old fleeces seems to work even better, but the new ones just after one wash seem to work fine.
Don't use any softener.
I set washing machine with a cycle called "synthetics" (because fleece needs a little more water than cotton for being well rinsed)
 
rome_italy said:
I guess it depends on the quality of the fleece...
I washed mine only once before using them: 50°C, a quite washing cycle (2 hours). The old fleeces seems to work even better, but the new ones just after one wash seem to work fine.
Don't use any softener.
I set washing machine with a cycle called "synthetics" (because fleece needs a little more water than cotton for being well rinsed)
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I've never even bought softener, so that's easy! I'll go look at my washing machine (it's a new one) settings - thanks :)
 
What am I looking for with all the washing and drying? They're just drying after their 2nd go through.
 
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