Guinea-Pigs in the Shed

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I've moved them into the shed for the winter. I normally put them in the shed in October but last year it was very difficult to clean in there so I've been trying to put off moving them into the shed, but the weather's a bit too cold outside for them now so they're inside now. I've also tried to make it easier to clean by not letting them have the whole shed like they did last year. So they don't have as much space as I'd like them to have but I hope it's enough. They will never be shut in the hutch, it is only 3ft so definetly not big enough for the 3 guinea-pigs.
The shed isn't heated but I've got a snugglesafe for them and they've got lots of hay and a little house. It only took me about 40 minutes to get it all ready for them and they seem to like it.
Do you think its big enough for them?

Edie hiding in the hay
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I think they're all in the hay
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Sasha
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Sasha and Edie
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Edie & Marmalade
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Edie saw the big bag of hay :))
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That's a great little area for them- loads of space! I was going to say when I read your cleaning out issue that if they were more 'penned' and had the whole shed - get a snow shovel! I love mine - amazing how I get excited over things like that...

You have gorgeous piggies by the way! x)
 
I love your set up! Wish i could give mine that much room.
 
Thank you :) I went to see them this morning and they seem quite happy. Edie and Marmalade were laying in the hay and Sasha was running around :))
 
Cool, wish was allowed to give my pigs a set up like that in winter, I just get to move their hutch in the shed, might ask if I could bring their run in and attach it to the hutch.
 
This looks lovely, they look so happy :)

They are extremely cute by the way!!
 
That's a great space for the three of them! Sure they will have lots of fun in there :)) and yes your piggies are sooo sweet! Please can we see more pigtures of them! :))
 
JanexxM&L said:
that is amazing! how did you make that whole cage area, which the hay and everything? x
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Thank you :) I just used C&C grids, there isn't a barrier round the outside to stop the woodshavings from going all over the shed but the guinea-pigs have been quite good and not kicked them all out yet :))
 
I decorated it ready for christmas today :red :))

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:)):)):)):)) LOVE it even more now! Lucky piggies, getting in the christmas spirit! xx>>>
 
fab - love the xmas decs! ( and the guineas of course)
 
Looks great! What do you use under the wood shavings? I want to keep my piggies in the shed, but have concrete floor so not sure if it will be too cold.
 
they look so happy. Wish I could give Bertie that much space, but apart from getting rid of my freezer and washing machine I am a bit stuck.
ps I take it your piggies cant read? Because it says rabbit on the side of the dish with their very yummy looking carrot and cucumber sticks!;)
 
Trine said:
Looks great! What do you use under the wood shavings? I want to keep my piggies in the shed, but have concrete floor so not sure if it will be too cold.
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I have some black plastic, waterproof type thing :)) (I'm not exactly sure what it is) and I don't know where I got that from, I found it in the shed, but I'm sure you could just use tarpaulin if you wanted to. Then I put newspaper on top, and then wood shavings on top of that, but I'm changing to megazorb soon.
 
suem said:
they look so happy. Wish I could give Bertie that much space, but apart from getting rid of my freezer and washing machine I am a bit stuck.
ps I take it your piggies cant read? Because it says rabbit on the side of the dish with their very yummy looking carrot and cucumber sticks!;)
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No, my guinea-pigs are happily unaware that they are eating out of the rabbits bowl. If they found out they would not be happy at all :)) I don't know why they've got the rabbits bowl now, I seem to accidently swap all the bowls round sometimes :))
 
I'm really sorry I forgot to measure it. I tried to measure it today but it didn't go very well :))
Sorry I didn't measure all the sides, I couldn't get the tape measure to fit and I'm not very good at this :))

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