My two guinea pigs, Ginny and Sakura, happily shared this two-level C&C (cubes & coroplast) cage for over four years.
Adding the second storey to create a hayloft gave the girls extra room, and also contained most of the hay.
The Hayloft
This hayloft used fleece and towels, rather than disposable bedding, like Carefresh.
Let’s face it — hay sticks to fleece. One little thing that helped quite a bit was to place a square of flannel underneath the hay rack in the hayloft. A matching square also provided a lightweight cover for napping after a snack in the hayloft.
A set of three mini-grids was used to create a central, free-standing hay rack.
This hay rack was easy to fill, and held a nice amount of timothy hay.
The girls enjoyed eating and sleeping in their spacious hayloft. The central hay rack design encouraged sharing, but never allowed one guinea pig to become too possessive of the hayloft and hay rack.
A C&C (cubes & coroplast) cage is easy and inexpensive to build compared to buying a simple guinea pig cage at the local pet store. C&C cages can also be easily customized and changed. There are some wonderful ideas here:
An earlier version of this post can be found on the Guinea Lynx Forums.
Sakura’s single-level cage photos are here, and the photographs for the mini-loft are here.
Great closeups, I really like the dedicated hayloft idea to contain most of the mess. The pictures of Ginny and Sakura sharing are just too cute. Wonderful post!
Thanks! I do believe the extra space in their C&C helped Ginny and Sakura with their long-lasting friendship. 🙂
It gives them a far more interesting living space. They do look cute!
Thank you! The girls really did enjoy their home. 🙂
Great post! I love Ginny’s little face peeking up over the coroplast in the last picture 🙂
Thanks! I love that picture too.