Smelly piggies

[Kinzie12]

Hello everybody,
My friend has 2 male guinea pigs in a cage that is 2 x 7. She using homemade fleece bedding that I made. Recently she has noticed that her room always smells and a liner and a few pee pads smell of farm. Even after she washes them with vinegar. Their poop also stinks terribly. Any advice? How often should she do a complete cage clean?

 

[Piggies&buns]

How often is she changing them?
Fleece usually needs to be changed every 3-4 days and fleece pee pads can be changed more often.
If there is any wet hay in the cage then that needs to be removed every day. Any poops need to be removed once or twice every day.
The other thing to consider is that boars will scent mark which can cause a smell, particularly if they are teenagers. There is a balance with boars because if you clean too often, then they will scent mark even more. It can work well to only clean half the cage at a time so that some of the cage still smells of them as that can reduce their need to scent mark so much

Their poops shouldn’t really smell very bad if they are on a good hay based diet.