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Old 07-11-07, 11:19 am
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Dividing the cage dangerous

I know that it is a common practice to make a wall within a cage (out of the grids) to divide the males from the females, or just keep certain gp's away from each other. My concern is that, a lot of times, these walls don't get installed properly and often brake or the pigs get stuck in them. I've used the grids to make a barriers to keep my pigs seperated, in the past, and have had lots of problems with these types of set ups. I've had adult pigs get their heads stuck in them. I've had many of them brake because they usually are hard to support them.

I think more people need to be aware of the dangers these walls can have. I think it is a better practice to either; make seperate cages, or keep the walls small and add cloroplast on both sides, not only for extra stability, but so they pigs don't get their heads stuck in them. I make all the cloroplast walls in my cages extra high so the pigs can't reach the bars. So their heads don't get caught in them. I've only had this happen once, with a adult gp with a more narrow head, but I don't want it to ever happen again.

Just a little heads up
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