I've decided I'm getting a bit fed up with my fleece system. Everything sticks to it (especially hay of course) and the wee goes through and although there's newspaper under, it gets wet real quick and you're pulling out sheets and sheets - and I'm talking needing to do this every couple of days and I'm replacing with clean fleece (full cage size) three times a week. One of the pigs poops for Britain in her cosy house - it has padded fleece pad in there which you could literally replace every single day as it seems that she wees constantly in there, where she sits so she feels damp when you pick her up out of there (she's a dirty little blighter!).
I'm thinking of using maybe kaytee clean and cosy and wondering (hoping maybe?!) that the poos done out in the open will drop down and through...? Might they? I thought if I did a layer at the bottom that was absorbent but
Would I be able to pick up and shake the Kaytee bedding and the poops will drop down???? I was thinking of cutting pieces of a double quilted waterproof mattress protector to put underneath. Could I then put layers of them in (the wet's not going to soak through) so that I could have the following process:
- poo pick but by shaking the bedding
- lift to one side
- roll up that side (capturing the poos) but leaving the next underlayer of waterproof pad there ready)
- put the shaken bedding back
- shake the poos off the quilted waterproof pad (assumption being the poos won't stick to a cotton fabric like they do to fleece)
- wash wet quilted waterproof pad.
Does this sound workable / has anyone got a similar arrangement and how do they find it?