Hay Boxes = Tidier Pigs ?

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Marmite is driving me insane with his intense desire to cover everything with hay.

I don’t like him having an empty hay rack (i don’t want him to have to eat wee’d on hay or anything) but the more i fill the more he just empties it and just slowly distributes it in an even layer all over his fleece! It sticks like crazy and i don’t know how much longer i can take this battle with him!

I’ve seen people who use hay boxes or have cordoned off food areas, in their cage, does this promote a more tidy guinea ? I’m not sure it i’d need to put a box or wether just adding some correx sides to corden off an area would be any good. Any pictures/advice would be good.

His current cage is 2x2 c&c, (and please before anyone states this is too small, this is based on quality of life for him, i know it sounds stupid but he does have a 120cm cage at my house, but when he’s in it he’s miserable and doesn’t leave his hidey house, in this cage (at my boyfriends house) he’s next to other guineas and runs around wheeking and talking happily, so for him it’s better plus he gets daily time to run around the bedroom too i’ve never seen him happier than when he’s been here) so i don’t want to big of a hay area. I’m not keen on using hay as bedding after one of my foster piggies suffered a bad hay poke in the eye. I do however plan on changing his bedding to fitch but i still don’t want hay everywhere i want it tidy :x
 
Could you maybe wire off one end of his cage & fill it with hay. I've done this with Minky who is in a convalescent 120 cage at present but she loves her hay. I found some small c&c grills that were only about 20cm wide so I mad a box with open bottom & one end & stuffed it with hay. She now alternates her house time between the hay, the strawberry house & a sleeping bag style cozy.
 
twiams said:
Marmite is driving me insane with his intense desire to cover everything with hay.

I don’t like him having an empty hay rack (i don’t want him to have to eat wee’d on hay or anything) but the more i fill the more he just empties it and just slowly distributes it in an even layer all over his fleece! It sticks like crazy and i don’t know how much longer i can take this battle with him!

I’ve seen people who use hay boxes or have cordoned off food areas, in their cage, does this promote a more tidy guinea ? I’m not sure it i’d need to put a box or wether just adding some correx sides to corden off an area would be any good. Any pictures/advice would be good.

His current cage is 2x2 c&c, (and please before anyone states this is too small, this is based on quality of life for him, i know it sounds stupid but he does have a 120cm cage at my house, but when he’s in it he’s miserable and doesn’t leave his hidey house, in this cage (at my boyfriends house) he’s next to other guineas and runs around wheeking and talking happily, so for him it’s better plus he gets daily time to run around the bedroom too i’ve never seen him happier than when he’s been here) so i don’t want to big of a hay area. I’m not keen on using hay as bedding after one of my foster piggies suffered a bad hay poke in the eye. I do however plan on changing his bedding to fitch but i still don’t want hay everywhere i want it tidy :x
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I use a hay rack but they do enjoy pulling the hay out of it. When I used fleece I had an area that was hay a box made of Perspex but you could knife up a plastic box container you know the type with a lid so your guinea keeps the hay in it mine had three sides to it and an entrance, it worked good butI got fed up of fleece so use paper and four corners of paper absorbent pellets and a hay rack and scatter some hay as well. When the hay was in the box it was tidier but I have given up now. If the hay is nice and soft I've never had eye pokes touch wood. My hay box is in the c and c photo section.

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He's clearly having a lovely time pulling all the hay out and making it just how he wants it. Let him be and get over your hang up about tidiness. I mean this in the nicest way. I've come to accept this with my own pigs :)
 
Some piggies love to lie and sleep in the hay.

However, you inevitably end up with hay all over the place, one way or other!
 
I stick a pile of hay in the C&C cage (I use substrate not fleece or anything) and let them get on with it these days lol. They love to burrow through it, chuck it about the cage and eat it too of course :))

I just let them get on with it - they enjoy 'mess' and I don't let it bother me.
 
its the name :) we have a Marmite and hes a pain in the bum for making a mess or yelling at slaves
 
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