You don't put the fleece in the washer until you've gotten the hay off by vacuuming, brushing, shaking the fleece, etc. I have fleece in my entire cage, even under the hayrack. Hay does get all over the fleece there...but I pick it up and throw it away, then vacuum whatever is left (or if I'm...

It might work to paint the grids, but your connectors would still be gray...I don't think it would work at all to try to paint them. I personally think the gray grids (which I also have, by the way!) look nice with the fleece and accessories you have. Brown would look cool, but I've never seen...

Just wanted to say that I tried a 1x2 kitchen loft a while back, and my girls did not do well with it. It seemed too small and they appeared to feel cramped and cornered when more than one was up there at a time. But then again, if you are starting out with that set up with babies, maybe...

I'm thinking it would be much easier to make fleece/blanket pads to fit in the kitchen box, then change those every day or two. I don't see how the strips are doing anything but making it harder to clean out the poops since they don't absorb anything anyway...and with the fleece cut into strips...

I've only been using the blankets for maybe 3 weeks or so now. Mine shed a LOT - the dryer lint filter is covered in a thick layer, and there is lint on the inside of the dryer & door whenever I have dried them, plus balls of lint all over the blanket. I washed some fleece with a blanket once...

I made one of these tonight and all three of my piggies very curiously explored it as soon as I put it in the cage and spent quite a while checking it out. One of them is now resting comfortably inside their new forest. :)

I just wanted to mention that I got a box of KM's 2nd cut Timothy a couple of days ago and it is indeed awesome. :) Just gorgeous hay - the only stems I've found have been very thin, soft stems, it has a good amount of seed heads (which my pigs think are treats), and it's long, very green hay...

A 25 lb box of hay from Kleenmama's lasts about 3-4 months for my three girls.

That's cute!! I have a corner "room" in my girls' cage, with fleece curtains on either side. I'm going to get new fleece soon and I just might make a fleece forest to switch out with the curtains, and try alternating them with every cage cleaning for some variety. Thanks for the idea! :)

I usually get a 25 lb box from KM's and we use a hayrack, too. It lasts my three girls right around 3 months.

The bluegrass I had from KM last year was spectacular. What I got this year (late fall) is really nice hay, except that it's FULL of very hard stems, of all sizes (I've had some an inch long, some upwards of 15 inches long, some very thin and some super thick). I have to sit and pick out stems...

Would paint even stick to plastic coroplast? I'm thinking it wouldn't work at all. I currently use fleece sheets that I made that come up and over the sides of the coroplast, completely covering it. Looks great. I know you said you don't want to do that, you like flat pads better...but I'm...

I asked this question on another thread and it seems to have gotten lost there, so I'm starting another thread to ask. Does hay need to be green to be good for the pigs? We usually use Kleenmama's hay, which is wonderful. But I thought we'd try to find a local supply to save some money...so I...

Ugh, my husband got home a little while ago from making the trip to pick up the hay, and it's NOT green. The entire bale is very much brown/yellow. It IS soft. It doesn't smell bad, but it doesn't have that nice smell I'm used to from KM's hay. Can I even feed this to them since it isn't...

I've been looking around for local hay to cut costs (LOVE Kleenmama's hay but if I can get local hay for a fraction of the costs, I need to do that). There are several places nearby advertising grass hay (orchard and timothy) but they mention that it is mixed with fescue (and many of them, with...

I vacuum my fleece - that helps.

I've just seen a few posts around here about problems with fescue (some kind of mold issue, I think) - so I'm not sure about it and would rather stick to something without it.

I had never thought to look for hay at area farms until I read this thread yesterday...so I checked around and found a few places listed on craigslist. One farmer I just talked to this morning says he has 2nd cutting orchard grass - he says it's very clean and nothing but orchard grass (I...

How did these do when you cut them? Did you need to stitch the edges to keep them from unraveling or to keep insides from coming out? Or are they more like felt or fleece in the way they are constructed?

Thanks for answering! Yes, batting would be the fluffy layer between the fabric layers (like in a quilt). I'm intrigued...I would love to give these a try!