Temp Regulation

[Lorcan]

So, this is about as ridiculous as it sounds, but I can't regulate my own body temperature properly. It's partly to do with Raynaud's which I've had since I was a wee'un, but I have a major problem feeling the cold. It gets so bad that if I get even remotely too warm (what most people would be comfortable in, sigh) I get prickly heat and everything else with it.

This wasn't a huge problem last year, but I've lost some weight this year and for some reason the weight loss has triggered the Raynaud's again. I'm not sure how to keep the temperature right for the boys, because what I define as cold is apparently a lot colder than what other people define as cold. Is there a rough average temperature I should be sticking to? Like no more than x, but definitely no less than y? I know it probably sounds obvious but that's easier to stick to than "shirt sleeves".

 

[Tim]

A rule of thumb I use for temperature for the piggies 20oC give or take 3oC
When it hit 25oC this summer, I brought my piggies inside on the cool kitchen floor. I have a thermometer in each of my hutches which alerts me if it gets too hot or too cold

 

[Lorcan]

A rule of thumb I use for temperature for the piggies 20oC give or take 3oC
When it hit 25oC this summer, I brought my piggies inside on the cool kitchen floor. I have a thermometer in each of my hutches which alerts me if it gets too hot or too cold

I have thermometers inside both rooms they're in, complete with humidity gauges! But the actual temperature is what throws me. Never thought I'd regret losing weight

 

[DM030819]

During the winter I have the thermostat on the central heating set to 15 degrees. Pigs are fine at that temperature.

At the moment the heating isn't on at all in the house and they're fine.

You can always give them more hay if you worry about them being cold.

We have them in a room where I make sure the radiator is on all the time during winter for them. Our house is really old and we'd need to be millionaires to heat all of it so we only have the heating on in certain rooms.