Changing bed to cage

cavy-carer · #1 08-12-05, 02:56 pm

Hi,

In a few weeks my mum is buying me a new bed and has agreed to let me build a cage out of wood on the bed. I have seen a link to one on here but i lost it.

The cage will be 33x82 inches.

How do i go about constructing it?

**Eventrocker33** · #2 08-12-05, 07:29 pm

Maybe you could use wood on the bottom, if it doesn't have any yet. Then build a coroplast box to go over it and add cubes around.

**Ly&Pigs** · #3 08-12-05, 09:17 pm

Wood really isn't good material to use to build a cage. If you do use it, make sure the pigs cannot get to it to chew or urinate on it.

**aqh88** · #4 08-12-05, 09:44 pm

What if you coated wood in epoxy resin? When building large custom tanks they use plywood for 1-3 sides and paint it. It would have to be 100% nontoxic and completely waterproof for that to work. You would have to make sure they couldn't chew on the edges.

**Eventrocker33** · #5 08-13-05, 07:18 am

Well I was thinking what if there is wood on the bottom but then you make a coroplast box so then they won't be able to get to the wood. Then you could use grids around it.

**laura220** · #6 08-13-05, 08:38 am

How about put a coroplast bin on the bed frame then adding cubes around it as if it were on the floor.

**Eventrocker33** · #7 08-13-05, 10:29 am

Laura220- That is what I was trying to say.

cavy-carer · #8 08-13-05, 02:58 pm

Thanks for the replies.

My mum is against trailing out to shops to find coroplast when she can get wood cheap (she knows the people who own the shop). I am wanting to give them a nice cage, and in the forum the alternative cage has a wood bottom. I really am trying here, the pigs will have bedding down and their bedding gets changed enough that the urine never touches the bottom of the cage with a nice thick bed of megazorb.

So back to my question, does anybody know how i go about constructing it?

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