Hi, I know that there is a (broken link removed) forum, but I don't know if everyone gets there and I need all the help I can get. If some Admin want to move this thread there is OK with me, I only ask you to leave it here a few days for everyone take a look an give me ideas.
Finally I took my son to the allergy specialist and he ask me to take my GP out of the house. If I want to keep them, they have to live outdoors. Here is really hot rigth now, on the afternoon it gets over 100 degrees, so I am wondering what is best for the piggies.
I don't want to get rid of them, neither my children, before considering this option I want to see if I can get them a comfortable environment so we can keep them and they can be safe and happy.
I have read the outdoor environment forum, but they only talk about taking pigs outside as for floor time, and in a playpen, but not really living outdoors.
I was wondering that if GP are (or used to be) wild animals, why can't they live outdoors on the "natural" weather? I know I have to provide them a good shadow, I don't want them to get any direct sunlight, because it will be life threatening for them.
Let me tell you the actual conditions of my back patio, there is no grass, only cement, it has two large flower boxes without any flower, (where I think I can put some grass on one of them for my GP)
Form all the bedding you know, wich one wold be the fresher on the summer and warmer on the winter?
I bed my pigs on fleece but I was thinking to go back to wood shelving if they go outside, what do you think?
Well, I hope you can help me with this, please forgive me if I misspelled somethig, english is not my born language.
Finally I took my son to the allergy specialist and he ask me to take my GP out of the house. If I want to keep them, they have to live outdoors. Here is really hot rigth now, on the afternoon it gets over 100 degrees, so I am wondering what is best for the piggies.
I don't want to get rid of them, neither my children, before considering this option I want to see if I can get them a comfortable environment so we can keep them and they can be safe and happy.
I have read the outdoor environment forum, but they only talk about taking pigs outside as for floor time, and in a playpen, but not really living outdoors.
I was wondering that if GP are (or used to be) wild animals, why can't they live outdoors on the "natural" weather? I know I have to provide them a good shadow, I don't want them to get any direct sunlight, because it will be life threatening for them.
Let me tell you the actual conditions of my back patio, there is no grass, only cement, it has two large flower boxes without any flower, (where I think I can put some grass on one of them for my GP)
Form all the bedding you know, wich one wold be the fresher on the summer and warmer on the winter?
I bed my pigs on fleece but I was thinking to go back to wood shelving if they go outside, what do you think?
Well, I hope you can help me with this, please forgive me if I misspelled somethig, english is not my born language.