Paula
Pigaholic Extraordinaire
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2007
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- Joined
- Jun 12, 2007
- Messages
- 6,024
Hello to everybody ... Just wanted to post a few pics of the cage I built this past weekend ... It's 5 levels and houses 12 pigs. The first two levels each house three girls and the top three levels each house a pair of boys. That's me in the photo and I'm 5'6" so you see how big the thing is.
I'm very proud of myself because I did the entire thing on my own. The past two cages I've actually paid someone to cut the coroplast to size for me, but not this time. I was determined to do it myself. It only took about 5 hours on Friday but I got it all cut and scored just right - 27" x 84".
Saturday I got up at 7 and got started and wasn't done until 10 that night, but the piggies are happy and I'm happy they are in their new cage.
The materials for the whole thing was about $170, for coroplast, grids, and zip ties. That makes me pretty happy too!
Further complicating matters is that I have a broken wrist right now - that's a cast on my right hand in case anybody's curious. [Nobody call my orthopedist, please!]
So here's the first pic:
Bottom part of the cage (most of it anyway):
And the top part (again, most of it):
The room is small enough that we can't back up far enough to get the whole thing in the photo, so the left side is rather, missing, but it's more of the same.
I'm very proud of myself because I did the entire thing on my own. The past two cages I've actually paid someone to cut the coroplast to size for me, but not this time. I was determined to do it myself. It only took about 5 hours on Friday but I got it all cut and scored just right - 27" x 84".
Saturday I got up at 7 and got started and wasn't done until 10 that night, but the piggies are happy and I'm happy they are in their new cage.
The materials for the whole thing was about $170, for coroplast, grids, and zip ties. That makes me pretty happy too!
Further complicating matters is that I have a broken wrist right now - that's a cast on my right hand in case anybody's curious. [Nobody call my orthopedist, please!]
So here's the first pic:
Bottom part of the cage (most of it anyway):
And the top part (again, most of it):
The room is small enough that we can't back up far enough to get the whole thing in the photo, so the left side is rather, missing, but it's more of the same.
