Chat Opinion on wooden hidey houses?

I had one when my girls were small and they loved it because it kept the light out. They outgrew it and I haven't gotten around to making another. I like them as pee stains don't really bother me, but I only use wooden houses with bedding and not on fleece because it doesn't go with fleece as well in my opinion. I think they are fine as long as you are willing to spot clean under them so the poop doesn't build up to much.

They can soak urine, but that depends on where they like to pee and where you put it. One thing that wood does that pigloos and cuddle cups can't provide is chewing. They can chew on it and it's better than them eating plastic and fabric.

I have a lot of wooden houses (I don`t like plastic ) and other wooden things and everything is fine

You can have a wooden house that doesn't have a bottom. Just stay away from the sugar filled snack shacks. I've never had a house in mine or a pigloo. I do a lot of open hidies, yeah I know. Fleece forests, tents and tunnels. mine will sleep out in the open a lot.

When I first started I bought a lot of accessories that I didn't really need or it wasn't practical.

First purchase:
Tree Stump Hideout - They like to go in, but they would always get into argument who gets to go in. It had one entrance/exit, not good with Guinea Pigs. No circulation especially on hot days

Pigloo- Same thing, one entrance/exit. Got into argument when one piggie was already in and the others wanted to go in too. No circulation on hot days.

Wooden House- Not fan. One entrance/exit. Urine stains on the walls, kind of small if you have adult piggies.

Snak Shak Log- didn't read what it was made out of, but it took my piggies 1 1/2 year to demolish one. As long as they don't eat it constantly then I think (IMO) it is fine. I like to fill the top hole with hay and use it as a hay holder also can be used as a tunnel.

Snak Shak house- different from the log. It had the straw roof which was really hard and was afraid it poke my guinea pigs mouths so returned it.

Best bet: save your money with purchasing the houses. You can use cardboard boxes and cut two or three entrances (piggies loved) and you can always throw away when they urinate on the walls. You can make a fleece tunnel using bent grid square and cover it with fleece. Or a fleece house.

I have a bottomless wooden house, and my girls love it. It actually seems to stay cleaner than the plastic pigloos. I rotate it in and out every few months because I like to keep things fresh for them. As @CavieGuy said, they'll love things like cardboard boxes. I often rotate in shoe boxes, which they really enjoy.

is the medium size okay? (broken link removed) i have 2 1 year old sows.

I have some big piggies, I would get as large as you can afford.

Piggy_mom, that ones seems a bit small. Something more like this-- (broken link removed) that has a window as well as a door. Or even this one (broken link removed) in the extra large size (for rabbits).

You want one large enough for a pig to turn around and escape if another pig traps them in there. And smaller pigs can fit through the windows (provided you get the extra large size).

In the rescue we use mostly wooden houses and the large Fiddlesticks (like this https://www.amazon.com/Kaytee-Tropi...907&sr=8-1&keywords=large+fiddlesticks+animal ).

If you have extra grids, you can bend 2 and zip tie them together to make a large tunnel and cover it with fleece. Its large enough they can turn around in, have two sides to get out of. You can drap fleece over the ends to fully cover them too. And when its hot outside you can place frozen water bottles or ice packs on top for the to cool off under.

lunarminx said:

If you have extra grids, you can bend 2 and zip tie them together to make a large tunnel and cover it with fleece. Its large enough they can turn around in, have two sides to get out of. You can drap fleece over the ends to fully cover them too. And when its hot outside you can place frozen water bottles or ice packs on top for the to cool off under.

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This seems like a good idea!