Sally Newbie
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi all
I am thinking of turning 2 of these boxes into hay feeders. Is white cardboard safe? I am planning to put 1 at each corner of the hutch with a circle in each side for the guinea pigs to get the hay out of. We can take the lid off and put more hay in. The boxes are too small for them actually to get in so my logic is that any hay in there will be fresh and not weed on as they will only be able to put their heads in to get it out.
We have been putting in 4 handfuls a day for 2 guinea pigs but of course they just tread it all down into the bedding and I don't know which is clean and which has been peed/pooed on. I don't want to use hay racks/hay bags as there are too many horror stories on this forum on what can go wrong (occasionally I know but I can see it does happen). We have used an obscene amount of hay in only 1 week of having them and when we cleaned out the hutch for the first time there was just way too much hay on the floor.Some may have been fresh/some not but of course we don't know so it all got removed.
Advice welcome please!
I am thinking of turning 2 of these boxes into hay feeders. Is white cardboard safe? I am planning to put 1 at each corner of the hutch with a circle in each side for the guinea pigs to get the hay out of. We can take the lid off and put more hay in. The boxes are too small for them actually to get in so my logic is that any hay in there will be fresh and not weed on as they will only be able to put their heads in to get it out.
We have been putting in 4 handfuls a day for 2 guinea pigs but of course they just tread it all down into the bedding and I don't know which is clean and which has been peed/pooed on. I don't want to use hay racks/hay bags as there are too many horror stories on this forum on what can go wrong (occasionally I know but I can see it does happen). We have used an obscene amount of hay in only 1 week of having them and when we cleaned out the hutch for the first time there was just way too much hay on the floor.Some may have been fresh/some not but of course we don't know so it all got removed.
Advice welcome please!