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I can't get the pigs out of the sleeping quarters in my bluebell hideaway hutch. I'm too frightened that if I try to chase them out, that they'll fall out the hutch. What do I do?
 
Maybe, you can make them calm and first, and slowly stroak them and maybe give them a little leaf of parsley, then after you can life them out. If that doesnt work, maybe you need a helping hand from someone. Good luck!
 
Can you get a pick-up conveyance into the hutch to train them to go into that for lifting out? Like a tunnel, or a box?

If you try to pick them up with your hands, you chivvy them into a corner where they have a limited choice into which direction they are going to dodge. if you just want to get them out of their bedroom but not pick them up, gently tap them on the bum; that is piggy language for "move on". Use your hands to give them a direction in which you want them to move.
 
Wiebke said:
Can you get a pick-up conveyance into the hutch to train them to go into that for lifting out? Like a tunnel, or a box?

If you try to pick them up with your hands, you chivvy them into a corner where they have a limited choice into which direction they are going to dodge. if you just want to get them out of their bedroom but not pick them up, gently tap them on the bum; that is piggy language for "move on". Use your hands to give them a direction in which you want them to move.
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Thank you so much! I will definitely try the box in the hutch, and the tap on the bum!
 
It also helps if you use different phrases for the various rituals you are performing. My piggies have learned to off elsewhere when I do "tidy tidy tidy", they know "walkie walkie" (being taken somewhere) and like "going back home" after a cuddle.
 
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