Temperature advice

[Saralou]

Hello

We have two brothers who we adopted in August this year. They have their own free rein utility room 6x4 which is attached to the house but accessed by external door.

So far it’s been working well. Since it’s gotten colder we’ve added padding and Lino to floor and a tubular heater and snugglesafes.

However room still reads 12 degrees at times during the day. They’ve been coming into the house at night just to be safe in a pop up run.

Wondering if putting an indoor hutch in the room that I can fill with more hay in the room would be better? Or a wooden insulated hide? Any advice would be great thanks as want to keep them warm but don’t want to keep putting them into pop up run.

Thanks

 

[Piggies&buns]

Welcome to the forum

A hutch is easier to keep warm than an open space. It enables you to fill with hay, several snugglesafes within the hutch and use thermal hutch covers to help trap the warmth within the hutch (although snugglesafes don’t warm the area itself, they only provide a warm place to sit).
Two boys will need a 6ft hutch for them to be locked in and still have enough space.

Unless you can heat the room more substantially - oil filed radiator for example

Bringing them into the pop up run is not going to work due to the temperature fluctuations they will experience from going between the cooler utility room and warm house. Anything more than a 5 degree difference from one space to another is too much.

 

[weepweeps]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

 

[Roselina]

Hello and welcome
@Piggies&buns has given you great advice
It is temperature fluctuations that are dangerous
A hutch sounds the way to go with appropriate covers etc
I’d still leave the heater going tho