Wood Pellets As Bedding?

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When I collected the boy's new cage at the weekend, the lady gave me an unopened 30litre bag of wood pellets, along with some other bits and bobs. Can I use the wood pellets as bedding? Does anyone else use them? I haven't opened the bag so I'm not sure what they feel like?
 
I have used wood pellet and paper pellet litter, they work very well. I wouldnt like to do an entire cage with it without areas such as snuggle sacks to get away from it as it doesnt look as comfy as other beddings.
 
I use it in hay trays under hay, or sometimes in corner litter trays. I have filled a whole cage with it but it did seem a bit bumpy. I do use it in my rabbit's litter tray (actually an under bed storage box, but the same idea).

I did once experiment with using it as an absorbant layer under fleece! Which worked extremely well for absorbancy, no smells and easy to clean (just rolled the fleece up with poos inside and shook the fleece into the bin) but it was annoying brushing off the "dust" from the pellets under the fleece.
 
Well I've put some pellets in their cage today but not in their bed area so will see how it goes. They do feel a little hard but the boys are running over them as normal etc so they can't be hurting their feet :)
 
I used wood pellets before but one of my piggies would rumble at himself when he ran over them because he hated the noise, bless him, it was always quite funny to watch but i had to change in the end, i do think they can be quite hard but work well for some people :)
 
I ise for litter trays and I do pop a pile underneath their normal aubiose bedding under the water bottles. Id not be happy doind whole cage as a permenant thing though as apart from being heavy they are quite hard. Although if you covered with layer of hay it'd probably work well!
 
I have used them in my litter trays and they work well. I always put hay on top to provide a bit of cushion.

As everyone else has said, I would never use them as the only type of bedding in the cage because they are very hard on piggy feet. Housing them solely on wood or paper pellets could lead to bumblefoot (infection and swelling of the foot pads).

Let us know how you get on with them :)
 
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