Should I use "fleece flippers", smaller fleece sections, or a single large fleece?

JenniferJuniper

JenniferJuniper

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I just picked up two new girls this weekend. :). They will stay in a separate cage than the two piggies we already have. I have always used one big fleece liner that wraps around the coroplast bottom but find i am never quite happy with sweeping out the poops every day. I just find it harder to keep clean and I was wondering if anyone has found that individual pieces of fleece or those "fleece flippers" are better for maintaining a clean cage. I imagine taking a section and being able to dump it into a garbage bag to be better than sweeping the large fleece and waiting for the big cage clean day to wash the large liner. But then does poop just get wedged under the smaller fleeces onto the coroplast until you wash the whole thing? I can start brand new with any type of system and am wondering what people have found works the best. Their cage will likely be C&C 2x5 or 3x4. Advice? Thanks!
 
Hi 🙂
I have a 3x4 c&c cage and I have two 2x3 liners rather than one big one as it's easier for the washing machine to handle. I expect a 3x4 liner would be a bit of a handful! A few poos and a bit of hay goes down the middle but I just pick it up when I clean the rest of the cage so it's not a problem. When I wash the fleece I fold it up to keep all the hay in it so I can shake it off outside so it might work for a cage clean too.
 
Ours is a 2X5 our liners are 50cm short of the full cage length as I put a bath mat at the end where the hay is, for heavy areas I put smaller (30cmx30cm) fleece pee pads down and so they can just be tipped into the bin each day.
 
Tigermoth said:
Any gaps in my fleece and the pigs disappear under so got to be all in one here.
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yes that is one of my concerns. I have one burrower for sure. the fleece flippers have coroplast in them so they are meant to prevent burrowing. it's a huge investment though.
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
Hi 🙂
I have a 3x4 c&c cage and I have two 2x3 liners rather than one big one as it's easier for the washing machine to handle. I expect a 3x4 liner would be a bit of a handful! A few poos and a bit of hay goes down the middle but I just pick it up when I clean the rest of the cage so it's not a problem. When I wash the fleece I fold it up to keep all the hay in it so I can shake it off outside so it might work for a cage clean too.
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None of your piggies try to burrow under the crack in the fleece?
 
We have 3 C&C cages and use two fleece liners in each. Under these i have washable pee pads. Having smaller fleece liners means that i can change one out easily if it gets particularly smelly between cage cleans. None of my piggies have every burrowed underneath them.
 
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