Hello all, I am new here. We are currently DIY-ing an indoor hutch for our first guinea pigs. I've taken ideas from on here and elsewhere on the internet, however as it is taking shape I have become bit worried about the height of the front of the hutch.
I took inspiration from a hutch design on here by Milou in this thread Member Gallery: C&C cages/homemade cages , although as ours is a little deeper we have been able to put in a 'loft' level that runs all the way across the back. Like the one by Milou, our hutch is solid wood to 3 sides and pelxiglass to the front. Size is 150cm x 78cm. The front is 4mm plexiglass, which currently is planned to sit 25cm (10 inches) high. I aready have the plexiglass but it is not yet fitted.
I have now been told by guinea pig owners that 10 inches is way too low for them to be safe, and that the front/sides of the hutch need to be considerably higher. The hutch will sit on a table so it's important that they can't get out. I don't have the guinea pigs yet, so we don't know if they are climbers or not (we are re-homing a pair from a friend of a friend, who is too busy to give them much attention, and all I know about them is that they are 1 year old females).
I can make the front of the hutch a little higher by boxing the plexiglass into wooden batons (instead of just slotting it in) but I can't do much more than that without starting again, which we don't have the wood for. What are peoples thoughts? I don't have pictures but could probably take some if it would help.
Thanks!
I took inspiration from a hutch design on here by Milou in this thread Member Gallery: C&C cages/homemade cages , although as ours is a little deeper we have been able to put in a 'loft' level that runs all the way across the back. Like the one by Milou, our hutch is solid wood to 3 sides and pelxiglass to the front. Size is 150cm x 78cm. The front is 4mm plexiglass, which currently is planned to sit 25cm (10 inches) high. I aready have the plexiglass but it is not yet fitted.
I have now been told by guinea pig owners that 10 inches is way too low for them to be safe, and that the front/sides of the hutch need to be considerably higher. The hutch will sit on a table so it's important that they can't get out. I don't have the guinea pigs yet, so we don't know if they are climbers or not (we are re-homing a pair from a friend of a friend, who is too busy to give them much attention, and all I know about them is that they are 1 year old females).
I can make the front of the hutch a little higher by boxing the plexiglass into wooden batons (instead of just slotting it in) but I can't do much more than that without starting again, which we don't have the wood for. What are peoples thoughts? I don't have pictures but could probably take some if it would help.
Thanks!
