Hay or Towls

[glitterbug121]

I heared that some of you keep your gunieas on towls i keep mine on hay don't towls get durty easly and you have to wash them a lot, i thought they liked hay to burry under, towls can be thin and lumpy whats best.

 

[Eventrocker33]

What is towls? And you shouldn't, as what I have read, keep your pig on hay but leave that to someone else to answer.

 

[glitterbug121]

My guniea pig is on hay at the moment he is 7 years old and he has been on hay all his life i have seen so threads obout how they keep them on a blanket or towl or soft wool.
But i will keep mine on hay he has hay in his main and sleeping compartment

 

[Eventrocker33]

What is a towl? Do you mean a towel? I use fleece and my pigs love it.

 

[Katie]

Hay, alone, is a bad idea. Pigs need to eat hay, and by using it as bedding it will mold from the urine and feces and begin to smell within a few short days. It's best to use a bedding underneath such as Kiln Dried Pine, Aspen, Carefresh, towels, fleece or a combination of these and provide a pile of hay for them to eat and play in, changing it daily.

Many people use fleece and towels with newspaper or shavings underneath. The newspaper and shavings will absorb the urine pulling it away from the fleece. As long as you shake off the poo's or vaccum them with a hand vac a few times a day and wash the fleece a few times a week, fleece does a fine job at providing a safe, sanitary living area.

 

[Eventrocker33]

I use a few layers of newspaper then fleece for my two pigs and they love it.

 

[smoot]

I use 2-3 layers of newspaper and towel on top. The towels gets changed every two-three days and the newspaper gets thrown away. One of my girls likes to burrow, so I toss several small hand towels in the cage so she has something to get under. I have a wet/dry hand vac (only $20 at Wal-Mart!) that I use to suck up poops a couple times a day.

I switched to towels from Carefresh because finding bits of bedding on the ground drove me crazy. The Carefresh was dusty and made the girls sneeze. When I first put them into their cage for the first time after switching to towels, they popcorned all over!

I'm currently trying to figure out what fleece is and might try to use that.

--Smoot

 

[Ly&Pigs]

glitterbug121-I am sorry, but your posting is terrible. Please use proper spelling along with capitalization. Consider this your first warning. Guniea is spelled GUINEA not the way you have it and that is only one of the many words misspelled in your posts.

 

[Piglet]

I use towels - they are not the best absorbers in the world but they're ok. I lay down about 4 layers of newspaper and then put a towel on top. They get changed every 5-6 days because the chubbs are usually out of the cage.

 

[My Baby Mu]

I use wood chips and spot clean. Then do a total clean every couple-few weeks. You shouldn't keep your guinea pigs on hay because they will go to the bathroom on it and then eat it and thats bad. Also, if you don't change it everyday it will get moldy and stink since it doesn't asorb urine.

 

[Myspoiltpiggies]

My guinea pigs would never eat hay that they weed on. They only eat the hay that I put in fresh that day. The hay they don't eat, they use for bedding and they sleep on it.