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Please brace yourself for more and very muggy hot weather in the southern half of the UK! the combination of high humidity and heat is as draining for the piggies as it is for us humans, but especially for the risk groups.

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Hot Weather Management, Heat Strokes and Fly Strike
 
Never dreaded the warm weather like I do now I’m a piggy slave. My thermostat in the pigs room has been saying the humidity has been around 70% :eek: Can’t wait for cooler weather... whenever that may be! :td:
 
The thermometer is showing 37 and a bit degrees in the shade. The piggy shed shows just over 40 degrees. But indoors it has been between 24 and 25 all day - piggies, bunny and people all indoors and staying nice and cool thanks to wet sheets on the windows (amongst other things!)!
 
Stay safe everyone in the heat! We were expecting a hot day here, forecast said 27, but its been overcast and breezy all day, a steady 21 degrees inside and out if a little humid- I'm ready with the fan and frozen bottles and damp sheets for tomorrow and sunday though just in case!
 
It has been very hot here so our outdoor piggies will be watching TV in the sitting room for the second time this year! It needs to get a lot cooler outside before they can go back to their hutch.
 
Hope everyone is managing ok! I can’t believe how humid it has been outside the last few weeks! 😥🥵
Can I just ask what an ok temp for the pigs is? Highest and lowest? We have recently bought a portable air conditioning unit for the pigs which works amazingly but I don’t like to have it on all day as I worry about the pigs getting too cold? I’ve been turning it off after their room gets to about 19/20 degrees and turn it back on when their room starts warming up again (about 22). Unfortunately it doesn’t stop when the room is cooled hence having to turn it on and off. Is this a problem for the pigs does anyone think? Like I said I don’t let the temperature suddenly drop and rise again and shock them but worry about the room getting too cold if I leave it on too long? 😕
 
Our flat got to up 27C today and was 35C on our roof terrace! Piggies have been keeping cool next to their cooling blocks, they really love them!
 
DougalandDiego said:
Hope everyone is managing ok! I can’t believe how humid it has been outside the last few weeks! 😥🥵
Can I just ask what an ok temp for the pigs is? Highest and lowest? We have recently bought a portable air conditioning unit for the pigs which works amazingly but I don’t like to have it on all day as I worry about the pigs getting too cold? I’ve been turning it off after their room gets to about 19/20 degrees and turn it back on when their room starts warming up again (about 22). Unfortunately it doesn’t stop when the room is cooled hence having to turn it on and off. Is this a problem for the pigs does anyone think? Like I said I don’t let the temperature suddenly drop and rise again and shock them but worry about the room getting too cold if I leave it on too long? 😕
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Piggies can't cope with sudden temerature changes at all, but 18-22 degrees is pretty optimal, and if they are at 18-19 degrees and the temperature drops to 15 overnight or over a few hours thats ok. Similarly if they are at 21-22 mostly and it slowly warms to 25 this is ok if they can seek shade or a cool spot.
So 15-25 is broadly ok as a temperature range but they couldnt go straight from one to the other without some time to adapt to things!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Piggies can't cope with sudden temerature changes at all, but 18-22 degrees is pretty optimal, and if they are at 18-19 degrees and the temperature drops to 15 overnight or over a few hours thats ok. Similarly if they are at 21-22 mostly and it slowly warms to 25 this is ok if they can seek shade or a cool spot.
So 15-25 is broadly ok as a temperature range but they couldnt go straight from one to the other without some time to adapt to things!
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Ok thanks I’ll try to not do any sudden temp changes. Their room with the aircon varies around 18-22 depending on whether I turn the air con off to give them a break from the humming/vibrating noise for 15 mins. Does that sound ok? I worried 18 was too cold but that’s good to know! Probably just feels cold for us going into the room because it’s so hot in the rest of the house!
 
36 where I was working. It was like I was drinking water and it was coming back out of my skin seconds later
 
DougalandDiego said:
Ok thanks I’ll try to not do any sudden temp changes. Their room with the aircon varies around 18-22 depending on whether I turn the air con off to give them a break from the humming/vibrating noise for 15 mins. Does that sound ok? I worried 18 was too cold but that’s good to know! Probably just feels cold for us going into the room because it’s so hot in the rest of the house!
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That sounds fine.
 
I hate this heat. The girls have been moved to the basement, which seems blissfully cool to us since the temperature in the rest of the house is about 28-30 degrees.

It's still 26 where they are.

Thankfully I'm on holiday so I can keep the cool pads coming (they ignore them so far) but I'm so stressed they'll get too hot...

At least three more days to go...
 
Going to be hot today in Liverpool!
Currently 22 on the shady side of tje house so hotter in the piggy room that gets the morning sun... they have fresh chilled drinking water, 2 frozen bottles in socks to sit on, and a damp pale cotton sheet draped over part of the cage- after a lot of initial suspicion 3/6 piggies are now under their shady damp canopy sheet, Jezzy is a bit obsessed with the chilled drinking water, and Blodwen has reluctantly overcome her terror of an unexpected cold purple sock creature in her hidey house!
Piggle is admittedly still in a fleecy tunnel, but at least in the shade...
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It's not too hot here yet though will be feeling like 30 by 3pm! So the boys are out in the run in the shade making the most of it. The yellow warning of thunder for the whole of the UK is still there 🤣
 
My boys are inside in their runs on the floor (assuming heat rises and it’s cooler for them there) . Let’s count our blessings that we’re not having to work in full PPE in buildings without ventilation and air conditioning like our front line staff. 😞
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
It's not too hot here yet though will be feeling like 30 by 3pm! So the boys are out in the run in the shade making the most of it. The yellow warning of thunder for the whole of the UK is still there 🤣
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Yes the storms last night were dreadful, and seem to have made things hotter and more humid rather than cooler! I was a bit freaked out by the storms, much more like the tropical storms we experienced in the southern US than British weather!
The piggies didnt mind the storms except Jezzy floof like myself seemed a bit grumpy and out of sorts this morning, both me and Jezzy have fine flyaway floofy hair that attracts static electricity, it wasnt a comfortable night for floofs with so much electric charge about!
 
Sounds like you got it much worse than I did. The worst we had was some distant rumbles. Let's hope the static calms down for you and Jess' sake
 
My lot are currently on the patio on old duvets (cooler than the concrete slabs) in their runs with dampened blankets on the top. They WILL NOT go anywhere near (as in other side of run and as far away as possible) scary cold sock creatures (as @PigglePuggle so eloquently put it!). it is cooler outside than it is in the house or garage. I water the blankets frequently with the watering can to keep piggies as cool as possible. My OH saw my watering the blanket and said that the piggies would be OK if they were under dry blankets. I relplied to him how would he like to sit in the sun with a fur coat on with no chance of escaping from it when the temperature is so high? He didn't have an answer for that one!
 
We are having a thunderstorm tonight, it's been passing over for about an hour now. I'm quite glad of it as it seems to be clearing the air a bit. It's been so hot and oppressive all afternoon that I could barely do anything. I brought the piggies indoors at 2pm because I thought they'd be more comfortable in the slightly cooler utility than in their stuffy hutch in the outbuilding. It still says it is 26 degrees in the hutch, so I think I'll leave them indoors tonight... ⛈🌩🌡
 
Trying to get the piggies out into their run for some fresh air and exercise this morning, before they have to move into the temporary, smallish pen inside for the day, was just like trying to get my daughters out of the house for some exercise on a nice day. They did not want to at all, and then, when we finally got them there, Bianca kept going back to the gate to be let back into her hutch. Silly pair (piggies and daughters both). At least they now have the sense to be lying next to a frozen water bottle beneath the damp towels (piggies not daughters). It is very very hot here.
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
We are having a thunderstorm tonight, it's been passing over for about an hour now. I'm quite glad of it as it seems to be clearing the air a bit. It's been so hot and oppressive all afternoon that I could barely do anything. I brought the piggies indoors at 2pm because I thought they'd be more comfortable in the slightly cooler utility than in their stuffy hutch in the outbuilding. It still says it is 26 degrees in the hutch, so I think I'll leave them indoors tonight... ⛈🌩🌡
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We had a thunderstorm last night but if anything but seems to have made things worse! It got very hot very quick this morning the boys had no chance to go out in the run while it was cool because it wasn't cool! 😔 Me and the piggies are sheltering in the living room. They've got a damp towel over the cage, a damp tea towel over the willow bridge and cool water.
 
Thunderstorms here too last night. The curtains are drawn and shaded windows open. It’s 25 degrees indoors. Piggies seem ok eating, drinking and weeing ok. Should I be doing anything else? They seem fine just concerned that others are doing damp towels etc .
 
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