How long did it take for your pigs?

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If you have a cage with a ramp, how long did it take them to discover the ramp? They just went in their C&C tonight, but they showed no interest at all in their ramp :-\

How long did it take for your pigs to take to the ramp?
 
with all my pigs it was at different times some took hours some took days and Jazz well she has been here nearly a month and she has only just realised there is a down stairs ;D she will go up stairs to the thrid level but only discovered downstairs the other day ;D ;D Give them time they will do it and I always try putting their favourite treat up the ramp see if that works
 
I'm with Dazie, varied from pig to pig - even when 2 or more were sharing a C&C with ramp and 1 went up, the other 2 just stayed on the 1 level!

Bribery seemed to do the trick in the end for us, that and making sure the ramp wasn't very steep. I put 1 of those small bend tunnels under the bottom of the ramp to lift it up slightly. I bent the tunnel into a sort of "tick or L" shape and put the "tick/L" bit under the ramp so that they had the straight part to walk down. Hope that makes sense ;D
 
I think it took them two days.
Don´t worry they´ll find it.
 
In my hutch the ramp had little steppers (strips of wood for their feet to grip) but they were spaced OK for a bunny but too far apart for the guineas to use without slipping, so they didn't use the ramp at all. I stuck on more steppers in between the original ones, rubbed cucumber up the whole thing (leaving nibble size pieces on the way up and a pile of it at the top!) and they were all suddenly very keen ;) Now two of my pigs even sleep upstairs while the rest are down.
 
well i've only tried pansy with a ramp and it took a matter of about 5 mins. :)
 
About 3 weeks, obviously mine are very slow learners! although having discovered it they run up and down it using it as a racetrack.
 
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