Please help. Very smelly piggies

Alyssaer

Alyssaer

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I really need your help!
I have 2 girls that are very very smelly. I have tried everything in my power to keep them from getting stinky. I change their fleece every other day. I clean up poop. I deep clean their cage once a week. I bought expensive anti smell litter. My roommate is very OCD and it’s very difficult for her to go into the pig room (where we store our things) and smell pee. I want another girl but I cannot get her unless I can minimize the smell. Please help! I think my girls like to mark so that kind sucks 😞 I need your advice please!
 
Sows do scent mark, it’s just that boars tend to smell worse. The problem with scent marking is the more you thoroughly clean the more they may mark to make it smell like them again
Do you remove wet hay/litter daily?
Have you tried using smaller fleece pee pads in high traffic areas such as need under hides so that you can remove them more often?
How big is their cage?
Is the absorbent layer under the fleece working properly?
 
Piggies&buns said:
Sows do scent mark, it’s just that boars tend to smell worse. The problem with scent marking is the more you thoroughly clean the more they may mark to make it smell like them again
Do you remove wet hay/litter daily?
Have you tried using smaller fleece pee pads in high traffic areas such as need under hides so that you can remove them more often?
How big is their cage?
Is the absorbent layer under the fleece working properly?
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They’re in a 5x2 c&c cage. I do not change the hay daily but I notice the smell is pretty much all on the fleece. And I am going to buy some of those pee pads soon. The absorbent layer under the fleece is great (I think?) it’s a pretty heavy duty one that’s made for humans though. But I know it soaks up the pee very well.
 
Wet hay can smell quite a bit so it would be worth ensuring hay is replaced daily if there is any chance it at least contributes in your case.
If the smell is all over the fleece and it is wicking properly, then scent marking sounds to be a probable reason - as I say, boars tend to smell worse. Try not changing the whole fleece so often - twice a week is probably enough - so they don’t feel the need to mark so much. Otherwise, there is probably not much more you can do
 
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