Intrigued by your indoor piggies...

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Following on from a thread (which I now can't find) yesterday talking about kleeping my outdoor piggies warm, I clicked on a website selling fleecey products and found some images of indoor piggies in lovely big open runs, lined in fleece.

I love the look of this (as opposed to them being in a cage) and wonder how on earth you keep it all clean? I bring mine in most evenings for an hour or so but they just wee and poo all the time! I love the idea of having them in, but don't get how you deal with that side of it?!:{
 
People who keep their piggies on fleece, poop scoop daily and keep hay in a rack out of the way and then it should be fine :-#0
 
Most indoor piggies are kept in c&c cages, there should be threads for them if you do a search. These are made from grids with a plasticy base.

Piggies poo alot so picking the poo out regularly helps keep it looking a bit cleaner. When it's time to change it I just waft mine about in the garden to get any poo and hay off and then stick them in the washing machine.
 
My five piggies are indoors in a c and c cage. I pick up their poops two or three times a day and change their fleece and towels every three days. I love having them with me and it is no trouble to keep their home nice and clean.
 
I have always had outdoor piggies but we decided to have our two new girls indoor and I can honestly say you get so much out of indoor piggies that you just dont get from outdoor-we have 2 boars in a garden room but because its cold in there its hard spending too long with them.I worry about having them in the warm house too long because its changes of temperature.
Because I'm at home all day they talk to me and react and its just so much fun! You get to see so much of their personality.

I dont find washing the fleece and fleecy sleeping sacks no problem at all.
I poop scoop a couple of times a week and wash the fleece 2-3 times a week after shaking and banging it against a wall in the garden to get any poos and hay off it-they wash so nice too.:)
 
I make fleece beds/liner's i poo sweep daily and wash liners once a week in a old single duvet cover

indoor piggies are better as they are friendlier and you get to know them better

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I have 12 indoor pigs:)) The girls (8) are on fleece, I clean out twice a week and poop scoop a few times depending on how bad it looks but I keep the boys on carefresh because I think they smell really bad")
 
Emmalala is right - I have 2 girls and they are lovely and quiet and fragrant smelling (for piggies ) - but Bumble my boar is whiffy :)>>>
 
Mines the other way round. Fleur and her daughters are kept on megazorb, she is amazingly messy. Alfie and Fleur's son are kept on fleece. I use a handheld hoover to suck the poos up.
 
I have my fifteen indoors piggies on fleece; I couldn't have as many otherwise. You interact a lot more with indoors piggies. I poop patrol 1-2 daily and change the bedding every three days. How often, is down to you and the number of piggies living together.

Please be aware that big temperature jumps when going from very cold to warm and back again is difficult to cope with for guinea pigs and can cause health problems.
 
thanks everyone! What about hay? do you put hay in? the photos are great but look nothing like my hutch which looks nice for about ten minutes after I've cleared it out!
 
Mine have a hay loft which is up a ramp. I just put newspaper in the bottom of this and fill it with hay. They sleep and eat in there.
 
My piggies are kept indoors in C & C cages..but i dont like fleece i use finacard which is less messy than shavings..they dont smel...it works for me..i must admit the fleece pens look lovely but mine never did.
 
My four boys are in doors on fleece, I give flinn & winston a hay rack as they are long haired (winston is a lunkarya) and if the hay was in a tray it kept getting stuck and tangled in his curls rolleyes
Fuzzy and Tyler have a litter tray because they like rummaging lol
 
i have two boys.....is it fair to say that boars produce more smell than sows? my friend has 2 sows indoors and they have very little smell but I cant imagine my boys staying that fresh for more than one day! :)
I'm working on hubs ...to let me bring them in next winter.....he is sooo dead set against it .........its gonna take time to convince him the boys can come in next year.......
 
thanks evryeone! we really don't have the space and I doubt huhbby would let me spend on making a C&C cage when we've just spent out on a hutch and run.... but I do love the idea of having them inside. will have to work on him!
 
libertychance said:
thanks evryeone! we really don't have the space and I doubt huhbby would let me spend on making a C&C cage when we've just spent out on a hutch and run.... but I do love the idea of having them inside. will have to work on him!
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Correx is around £10 a large sheet and ive seen 13 grids for £10-£15 (jtf/wickes),

I bough a hutch and run for 2 piggies but then changed for a c&c cage, i sold mu hutch to my neighbour now i have 8 piggles :)
 
All my pigs are indoor pigs. I dont know why but any synthetic materials I put in their cages they immediately start chewing up!
I wont say it's easy having so many indoor pigs, especially as most are smelly little boys. I generally clean the cages every 3 days but some of the more..smelly ones I have to clean out every 2 days.
Luckily I've got laminate flooring throughout the ground floor so when I let them out to run around it's not so messy to sweep up the poop and blot up other messes when they're done.
If you let your piggies free-roam you'll notice that they may tend to huddle in one corner more often, this may be their safe place, so putting an old towel down there will save some cleanup time at the end, also.
 
Yes we tend to have them in every evening and they huddle in a corner of the kitchen so i lay lots of newspaper down. I would love them in, I keep reading all the threads here getting myself all worked up! But I have lots of working on DH to do, I mentioned it last night anxd he said NO!
 
emmalala said:
I have 12 indoor pigs:)) The girls (8) are on fleece, I clean out twice a week and poop scoop a few times depending on how bad it looks but I keep the boys on carefresh because I think they smell really bad")
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It's weird - you know, I've read before that boys smell but I've never noticed the boys are any different to the girls.
 
Simple, I just shake out the fleece once a day to get rid of all poop and hay, and do a full clean ever four days, which means taking all towels and fleece, plopping them in the wash, scrubbing down the base, adding fresh towels and fleece, and rearanging furniture.

I put my hay on a hay rack to keep it cleaner and will swap around beds and other absorbant things to keep the pee smell down :)
 
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