Fleece Verses Disposable Bedding

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Today ive cleaned my seven 6/7 feet hutches and used dispoasable bedding in the 3, 6 x2 c and c cages.I'm going away for 6 days.I'm astonished at the amount of substrate i need,2 bales of finacard and bale and a half of megasorb,,i could not do this on a permanent basis,it would cost £ 80 a month.Fleece is by far more economical than substrate if you have alot of cages !what do other forum members think?
 
My boys would love it if I used hay and whatnot as bedding, but there is no way for me to dispose of it each week so I have to use fleece. Even now I only have space for one human bin bag each week in our bin.
 
Fleece best option for me. Already finding it difficult to fit all litter tray content, etc into our rubbish bin. Thinking about getting another compost bin to try recycle some of it into the garden as our rubbish bin is only collected every two weeks.
 
We are using fleece too. We only have one indoor cage and run but I didn't want to fill the bin with cage changes and having used megazorb before for buns and piggies I find it so messy!
 
I use both in different hutches and find pros and cons of both. In our village there are some very keen gardeners and they are happy to receive the dirty hay and megazorb/finacard for their compost heaps. I think u just have find someone who can recycle it - I like to think it will help grow veg to feed Guinea pigs next year!
Fleece is quicker when changing a hutch / cage but I hate the washing and the fact that the fleece will probably live on forever and not biodegrade. Archaeologists of the future will find strange fleecy items and puzzle what they were used for:nod:
 
My herd is in a 24 square foot run and the boys in a 154 cage.Hard enough getting rid of litter tray substrate never mind the actual cleaning.And the cost would be astronomical.Love my fleece.
 
I have my girls free range in a shed with aubiose and they generate 1-2 big black bin bags of throw away per week, plus another bin bag from the weekend when they're inside. No room in our small bi-weekly collected bin either - we go to the tip a lot! I can imagine that fleece is much better value - especially for so many piggies
 
Fleece is a godsend. Now the only rubbish I throw away is poop and hay that they've used as a toilet:Peasy to sweep, only cost for fleece is the initial money, then detergent. Much cheaper in the long run:love:
 
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