kitchen area lining?

[piggyl0ver]

i use fleece bedding, but have bought "kitchen areas" to make the cage tidier. do you guys fill it completely with hay, or line it with fleece first, or something else?
thank you very much

 

[Piggies&buns]

You will need something absorbent underneath the hay first - puppy pads, shavings, aubiose, megazorb etc. it’s usually a disposable bedding, rather than fleece, that’s used in a kitchen area as hay sticks terribly to fleece

 

[AidaB]

We use newspaper to line the hay area in the playpen, and change it every playtime.
One of our guinea pigs loves to eat puppy pads, so we always have to hide any in use, under something!

 

[Lorcan]

I usually fill a 2x3 section of the cage with Megazorb/Back2Nature/wood shavings and that's where I have all their food. Not just their hay but their veggies get scattered in that 2x3 section too. If they're eating there, they're also pooping and peeing there which means the fleece (in my case) doesn't need changed so often.

 

[rp1993]

I use back to nature under our hay area, I did use a bath mats but found they stank after a few days hence why we switched to a disposable, the rest of the cage we have fleece.

 

[piggieminder]

I use newspaper, makes it easy to clean out. I wrap the paper round the old hay shake the hay into the compost throw out the wet newspaper. I used to use back2nature and just change the wet areas but with 5 cages it's too expensive.

 

[Siikibam]

I’ve used newspaper and disposable bedding. I feel the disposable worked best but it could be the opposite for you.