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I have a routine started, and the pigs hayrack gets filled with fresh hay right before I drink my coffee, around 4:30-5:30AM. There isn't a lot left in the hayrack from the day before by the time I refill in the morning, do I need to make sure they have some at night? I think they snooze most...

My waterproof pads arrived today, and they are better than expected. Some people use waterproof pads and some don't, it is all a matter of personal choice. These are refurbished incontinence pads, they have been sanitized and a layer of fabric sewn on, various patterns and solids, good seams...

So I've always heard that iceberg is not the preferred type of lettuce to feed, because it doesn't have enough nutrition and is mostly water. What is the real deal? Does it in fact have less nutrition, or if the piggy eats enough is the nutrition adequate? Aren't most vegetable mostly water...

I'm waiting on some of the other stuff before the fleece project goes live, but the fleece is cut, washed and dried. The second step to me is every bit as important as buying the fleece: getting organized. I have a very large plastic storage crate I've just cleaned out and I am going to use it...

I cut a number of pieces of fleece from the bolt I purchased and washed and dried them last night. This morning I was getting ready to rewash but took a tablespoon of water and just to see what happened, put it on the washed and dried fleece. It wicked through immediately. I'm not clear as to...

I have a couple of hides, and am planning a fleece forest, but was considering getting a cuddle cup or sleep sack. In your experience, do your piggies actually use those?

I wanted to clip my fleece onto something (with binder clips) so it would not be wrinkled and so the pigs could not tunnel under, but after some consideration, decided I did not want to go up and over so I decided to put a flat sheet of coroplast on the inside bottom of the cage and clip to...

When I have gone to fabric stores, the have a nice long 20 foot cutting table and can spread out and unroll the bolt in order to cut. I on the other hand have a very small dining table and since I live in a teeny house do not have any large expanses of floor. I'm currently in the middle of...

I decided to switch over to fleece, but I'm thinking it will take at least another week for it all to come together mostly because of shipping delays because of the holidays, but some of it was due to taking time to think about how I wanted to do all this. I managed to get an entire roll of...

Was looking around Ebay for cuddle cups, saw a guinea pig calendar, it was cute. The Cage Store could put out a cute calendar too, and the back cover could be a grid, the front cover could be coroplast, each month could feature a cute piggy and a Cage Store product picture. Who wouldn't like...

Since it is polyester I would not think that it shrinks much, but if you were to cut material for a 28x56 mat, how much extra would you include?

Has anyone ever tried old fashioned birdseye diapers as the absorbent layer? They still make them without the prefolds, and at 27" they are nearly the size of two grids.

For those of you with several cages, sometimes fleece companies will have good buys on seconds (which can be misprints or some other minor flaw) or end rolls for a very reasonable cost. I am waiting for my fleece to be delivered (most likely there will be a little bit of a delay because of the...

I'm switching to fleece and my current hayrack lets them pull too much hay onto the cage floor. I have some ideas about making sides for it, but I want to please see pictures of what everyone else uses and maybe I'll make a whole new rack.

For those of you who use mats instead of the up-and-over fleeces, if you clip together the waterproofpad, uhaul insert, and fleece so it is a little heavier does that help prevent burrowing?

Please say how often you do a full clean, you can also supplement your answer by describing your spot cleans.

Are all moving pads (not moving blankets) equivalent? I was just looking around the internet and found these (broken link removed) and they seem so reasonably priced that one could use them as disposables (for my double decker 2x4 grid it would take a pad a week, less than $3.)

A couple of people have mentioned clipping their fleece down with binder clips. Are there any safety issues with this as far as the piggies trying to nibble the hard plastic at the base of the clip?

Are all moving blankets pretty much equivalent or is the Uhaul brand better?

Do you prefer light colors or darker colors for your fleece bedding?