Hay. Hay,hay,hay. How the devil do you get it off the carpets?

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My eyes.
It gets everywhere.
My vacuum (Vax upright with a clear cylinder ) sulks at the thought of picking it up.
I use a rubber brush and pan on the stairs but I can't do that all over.

How d'you pick it up?

And how do they manage to skillfully scatter it far and wide?

It might sound weird but if you have a rubber soled shoe, preferably flat, try scraping the carpet with it, it might pick the hay up and bring it together in a clump.
I have rats and they drop megazorb bedding everywhere, the shoe works on this, and also works on getting dog hair off the carpet as we also have a seriously moulting husky.

Disclaimer: I have laminate floor put down by previous owners, which I loathe in my living room but I have a large rug and stair carpet.

I recently bought a Vax wet and dry cleaner, the sort that looks like a big orange Henry. Its a noisy beast and we have no storage for it in our house but it works a treat.

We've got a miele vacuum, the cat and dog model. Handled hay and sawdust and even woodshavings (Latter two are OH, not piggies).

I have a Miele cat and dog vac - works well, but I do have wooden floors all downstairs except the living room. The pigs hardly ever go in the living room unless snuggled in a towel. Current Bun is in there all the time sleeping under his favourite chair, but he never takes hay anywhere. The vac does cope with the copious amounts of his black bunny fluff though. When he's moulting there's enough to make a few more bunnies.??

I'm watching this to see the miracle solution!

Guessing no replies means no miracle solution?

There is no miracle solution millimat
My girlies have been in a few days in the last week or so (since GP3 died) mainly because of the cold but we want to keep a close check on them too, so I can't vacuum their room unless DD takes them out of it (they get very judgey)

Have you noticed how much hay they can carry when you pick them up. They do that feet stuck out paragliding thing and bring half a bale with them.

my poor hoover/dyson is regularly clogged up with hay
if only there was a magic solution
fleece means less hay (but then it clogs up the washing machine)

I vacuumed their room tonight and emptied out an entire cylinder of hay , but I noticed the roller brush gets clogged up with my DD hair more than the guineas hay.

I've tried fleece but our piggies do prefer hay- brings out their wild side, tunneling through and playing 'Haunted Hay'

Primark Bag + Hay Cookies + fleece in their trug .

Girls are quite happy with this arrangement so far ......... they love the bag to destroy and today they eviscerated the hay cookie on the fleece.

Thanks piggies that was what I was trying to avoid, the hay + fleece cleaning nightmare. (Little gits)

Echo the rubber soled shoe suggestion, it sounds bonkers, but if works!