Pigloos/Hidey's: What makes the best hiding spots?

[BlueFoxSpringer]

I want to buy a few hiding spots for my pigs when I get their C&C cages put together. Right now, I give them cardboard boxes and paper sacks, which get chewed up pretty quickly. I've seen the pigloos, and I've also seen some wooden boxes for rabbits and such. What other types of hidey holes are there? What are the best? Thanks!

[angiekay]

I bought a couple of snuggle sacks, one of my three boars love them, the other two lay on top of them, and I made a tunnel from a grid, bending it into a complete circle and lining it with fleece inside and outside, they all love that. I also made them a coroplast house, they love that.

The igloos I think are always a winner, I personally don't have one. You could always put a grid on the top of one corner and hang a fleece completely over it, creating a "house" hidey place, I've seen that on some of the pictures too.

From the photo galleries, there's a link to "accessories" and under that, there's loads of pictures of "hidey houses".

Good luck!

[Peggysu]

You can use a lot of things for hiding spots. I use pigloos sometimes, tunnels and also towel tents. Those are always a big hit as they like to run through it while doing laps and there is always an exit. They like card board boxes which I give them when I have them. Just switch it up as it seems to encourage exploration in the cage.

[Kipsie]

Oh, and many pigs like to poop under their hideys, so you can put a small coro litter tray with carefresh under a hidey.

[LauraBean]

I went to the Dollar General and bought several plastic dishpans. I then cut two holes in each,sanded them down so there aren't any sharp edges, and "VOILA!!!" instant piggy hideys ( and for only two dollars each!)
My girls also love towel tents and bent grid tunnels

[Wheekie]

I have pigloos, a wooden house and a plastic house, but what My Guy REALLY loves is a simple 12-pack coke box...it makes a long tunnel he can run through and he really has a good time when he runs his laps and he takes a trip through there! He's always in there...I hear his nails clicking on the cardboard all night long! I change it every couple weeks though...depends on how much he pees in it! (Sometimes I have to do it every week! We drink alot of coke!)

[JD In Van]

I have pigaloos too. One huge one that's rabbit sized that I use for floor time cause they can easily both fit in it with room to spare and then a smaller one. I also clip a dish towel to the side of the pen for a towel tent and have some wide pvc tubing. All three are a hit. They like to sleep in the pigaloos (though mine are rounder then those) but when they want to come out to be more social they use the towel tent and the tube.

[TallulahBear]

My pigs love the 12 pack soda boxes too. That is also what I use for a hay holder. I stuff half of a 12 pack box really tight with a lot of hay and they love it because they can munch the hay from outside the box, in the box, or out of the top of the box where I pull a tuft out of the handle in dent. They run through it when the hay is low enough too.....I stuff it full every night for them. We go through soda like water in my house (bad, bad, I know) so I can give them clean ones every week or more. We also use them at floor time in all different arrangements for tunnels.

I just use varies boxes for hidey holes...I haven't bought any yet. The rescue group I got the pigs from isn't a fan of pigaloos because it only has 1 exit and hard for squabbling pigs to get out and they have no ventilation. Personally I can't see where either of those things would be much of a issue.

[JD In Van]

Originally Posted by TallulahBear

I just use varies boxes for hidey holes...I haven't bought any yet. The rescue group I got the pigs from isn't a fan of pigaloos because it only has 1 exit and hard for squabbling pigs to get out and they have no ventilation. Personally I can't see where either of those things would be much of a issue.

If you have aggressive pigs they can corner the other one in there and they can't get out which is very very stressful for the tormented pig (I'll post a pic of the ones I use though they have big wide entries that two pigs at a time can be in at least which I think is a better alternative if).

Also, many pigs pee in their 'houses' which means they're breathing in ammonia if they're not cleaned up after properly. Which opens up the possibility of URIs. (My boys ONLY pee in their houses in fact.)

I have my pig huts on trays of bedding and paper and hay that have to be changed at least once every 24 hours, often twice. We also pull them out of the pen while the piggies have floor and lap time to help air out the area. I highly recommend if anyone goes the pigaloo route that they mock up something similar either with little plastic bins or sign board or what have you so it's easy to keep these spaces clean.

[Peggysu]

I have fleece and my piggies just move the pigloo around the cage.