Fleece How long does your fleece last?

I have 3 cages. My old single guy is in a 60x150cm cage and has his fleece cleaned every 4-5 days, my young male pair are in a 75x180cm cage and their fleece is cleaned every 12 days, and my young adult female pair are in a 60x150cm cage which also gets cleaned every 12 days. They're all vacuumed out twice a day. Besides a ton of hair, all of my pigs are pretty clean on the fleece except the older guy who is getting worse with age. For the young male and female pair, I hang their fleece and towels/pads up outside for an hour during floor time about a week into use. I find it lets everything dry out and freshen up a little, without unnecessary washing. The bedding rarely smells of pee or poop, it just has a faint piggy smell.

One of my girls pees in her house at night so that fleece gets changed every morning and if needed in the evening. I have my cage sectioned into three different areas so I can change out whatever area needs changing, without cleaning the whole cage. The center of the cage usually never gets peed on so it can go for a long time. Do any of your guinea pigs pee in their houses? If so how do you deal with the wet beds? During the day my girls spend most of their time foraging and sleeping in the large hay tray, which I change every evening, so most of the pee and poo gets deposited there.

7 days with 2 girls in a 2x5 using 2 layers of towels, and that's pushing it. Ideally I would like to clean it every 5 days.

Delaine said:

One of my girls pees in her house at night so that fleece gets changed every morning and if needed in the evening. I have my cage sectioned into three different areas so I can change out whatever area needs changing, without cleaning the whole cage. The center of the cage usually never gets peed on so it can go for a long time. Do any of your guinea pigs pee in their houses? If so how do you deal with the wet beds? During the day my girls spend most of their time foraging and sleeping in the large hay tray, which I change every evening, so most of the pee and poo gets deposited there.

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I don't have actual hidy houses anymore. Instead I use my fleece and create hidys. I try to make sure they can hide and at the same time have a ventilated hidy. I have 2 fleece forests downstairs and bunk beds upstairs

when i used to have a c&c cage, used to spot check each day and change it about every 4-5 days and that was with 4 pigs

Delaine said:

Do any of your guinea pigs pee in their houses? If so how do you deal with the wet beds? During the day my girls spend most of their time foraging and sleeping in the large hay tray, which I change every evening, so most of the pee and poo gets deposited there.

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My girls are prone to peeing in their houses. I use a plastic hidey over their kitchen area and scoop it out daily, and then they have 'tents' over their fleece. For the tents, which is where they pee, I made 3 'pads' for the bottom which consists of 1 layer of waterproof table cloth, 2 layers of thick towel, and 1 layer of fleece on top. I change them out every 1-2 days and that keeps the fleece underneath dry, and the girls happy and clean. It drains away the pee quickly so they don't end up sitting in it, and the top later stays dry.

do y'all throw away the fleece and put down a new one or just wash it and reuse it? I'm new to the c&c cage, I'm in the process of building a 2x6 with a 2x1 upper level, I just adopted 3 females last week

I wash and reuse. Occasionally, I'll throw one out if it's really dirty.

ashleykaileen said:

do y'all throw away the fleece and put down a new one or just wash it and reuse it? I'm new to the c&c cage, I'm in the process of building a 2x6 with a 2x1 upper level, I just adopted 3 females last week

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We reuse. It's the great thing about using fleece. I have 2 fleece liners. One in the cage, and one clean and ready to go.

BedfordCavies said:

We reuse. It's the great thing about using fleece. I have 2 fleece liners. One in the cage, and one clean and ready to go.

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I have about 3-4 fleece blankets for both of my two cages, haha. I don't wash them all at once though. I like to have at least one clean per cage.

u can wash the fleece but don't put any fabric softer . The softer will mess it up.

Mine lasted 16 days at LONGEST.

I change it every 7 days though. It only goes longer when I'm ill.