Which hutch or cage🤷🏻‍♀️

[Dani V]

Hello! I have just stumbled across this wonderful site and could really do with some help from all you experts please
We are getting two female guinea pigs in a 2 1/2 weeks and I need to get a suitable home. The breeders currently keep theirs in a cage - the plastic base and wire top style. My daughter had her heart set on one of those pretty wooden ones from pets at home. I can see that the plastic trays at the bottom is a massive advantage for cleaning out! Can anyone advise weather it is suitable to keep Guinean pies in a hutch style home. They will be kept indoors and we will build an outdoor run for them. I’m not very good at caging animals (we have rabbits but they live in the garden and sleep away at night). I need `to make sure that the cage is as big as possible - or what is recommended. My two daughters will be loving and playing with them every day so they will get lots of love and attention but I just don’t know whether to get the big wooden house and try and find some plastic trays... or are the cages better!?
Please help any advice or photos gratefully received!x

 

[PERFECT G PIGS]

Hello! I have just stumbled across this wonderful site and could really do with some help from all you experts please
We are getting two female guinea pigs in a 2 1/2 weeks and I need to get a suitable home. The breeders currently keep theirs in a cage - the plastic base and wire top style. My daughter had her heart set on one of those pretty wooden ones from pets at home. I can see that the plastic trays at the bottom is a massive advantage for cleaning out! Can anyone advise weather it is suitable to keep Guinean pies in a hutch style home. They will be kept indoors and we will build an outdoor run for them. I’m not very good at caging animals (we have rabbits but they live in the garden and sleep away at night). I need `to make sure that the cage is as big as possible - or what is recommended. My two daughters will be loving and playing with them every day so they will get lots of love and attention but I just don’t know whether to get the big wooden house and try and find some plastic trays... or are the cages better!?
Please help any advice or photos gratefully received!x

Hello I would go for a big indoor cage as they give plenty of air circulation and your will be able to view them better.

 

[Julie M]

Zooplus do a 160cm cage. Or you could look at c&c style caging if you've no other pets.

 

[Claire W]

Hello and welcome to the forum I agree that a huge indoor cage would be your best best bet as hutches can be dark especially indoors. As mentioned above, zooplus sell a 160cm cage or you could look at C&C cages which you make yourself. I don’t have one but many members on here have them. Have a look at these threads here

Member Gallery: Commercial Cages

Member Gallery: C&C cages/homemade cages

 

[Tommywing5b7]

I have the 160cm cage from zooplus and it is great. Got a bench for it to sit on from b&q which fits it perfectly. I considered outdoor hutch for some time. What I came to realise is that if you have them outside you don't see as much of them daily. Plus for the children they can become a bit more of a chore.

Are the kids really going to go outside in the rain to feed them etc a few years down the line? Some people manage fine and do so. But for others it can just turn into a task. Also beware of the p@h cages, they look great but are pretty flimsy, chartwell make really good hutches if you do decide to go down that route!

Good luck

PS attached are the girls in their home with fleece from pampered piggies

 

[Reenie]

If you can, I would go for C&C every time. They're maybe not the most attractive o. The market, but they are definitely the most versatile.