Indoor cage

[Mendeleyev]

Can anyone recommend a good indoor cage for our GPs? Now the weather is turning I’d love to get them inside. We have cats so a C&C cage isn’t appropriate. Thanks.

Not sure what a c&c cage is but we have this one for two piggies in pink and they love it. Cheaper on ebay though. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B005CAW30S/?tag=mumsnetforum-21

C&C is good because you can customise it. When my DBro cat came to visit , (it was winter so the pigs were in) I put a C&C lid on the sows cage (the boar has a plastic base / bars upper cage so he's enclosed)

I had to overlap a bit for stability and we use cableties to attach ( make sure it doesn't fall on the little darlings when you snip the tie . Ours have boxes so it balances)
I had enough grids and I already used the C&C.
Might not be so good if your cat sits on the top though

My pigs always live on one level, I had a wide ramp in the pighouse for GP1/GP2 - DH made the ramp and the covering haybox.
They were far too lazy to use it , so we gave up on ramps, even GP3 didn't bother when he was a very young lively boy.

Our plastic/metal cage is 4x2 but there are really nice bigger ones in Jolleys (might be for rabbits )

4x2 is fine for GP6 (boar) but I've had 2 pigs in there , mainly just used for nightime.

Boy cat sits on top when they are put in the run. Fortunately the pigs aren’t bothered. They go nose to nose with the cats who get spooked first! I’ll look at lids as I didn’t know you could get those. Will also look at your suggestion dinnae

Sorry to hijack your thread, but I've an indoor hutch question too

If we get a C&C cage with correx, does the correx stay clean with lining the same as you use outside (i.e. newspaper and wood chip) or do you need to buy fleece liners too?

Thanks!

I think the proper correx is wipeable .

I use cardboard to line with a raised 'lip' round the sides where the bedding is.
They have a cardboard box to keep the hay in place

C&C are nice and airy but the mess does travel. I put tarpaulins under the cages then do a hoover round with the vacuum hose when the pigs are out being cuddled.

Our boar has a plastic base so he has the rodent safe cat pellets .
The sows have bathmats as a base layer

Then puppy pads + newspaper + hay.

The puppy pads+paper get rolled up and replaced daily.
They don't chew them luckily.

I'm not a fan of fleece myself , unless one of my pigs is unable to have hay bedding or something. You need to brush all the hay and pooh off , wash it in a bag and be careful what you wash it in, pigs have sensitive noses.
Whenever I've given mine fleece bedding and a hay box to eat , they cram themselves in the hay .
Two or three lardy hogs squished into a trug of hay ...... we've voted with our feet Mum, we like hay .
Keeps them happy .

I do the lids from the C&C panels when DBro cat visits , just using the cable ties but they need overlapping for strength.

Last year I got a brilliant divider from Costco (they leave the boxes and packing out at the tills) . It was like a criss cross of card in a # shape . I cut doors in the card so they could wander round the little 'rooms' (kept them amused)

Once the cardboard boxes are dirty they get replaced .

Thank you

So I need tarpaulin under the whole thing, correx, puppy pad then newspaper. Replace puppy pad etc. daily.

What do you mean by pellets? Sorry if it's obvious, they are our first pets!