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Bed O’ Linum

Bed O’ Linum
Criteria:

Animal Welfare Act minimum size cage, 4 foot by 2 foot, used to make the trial realistic. Guineas will always differ in “output” though!

2 guinea pigs
Enough bedding to cover the newspaper but NOT deep, (Deep bedding can easily hide injury to limbs/walking abnormally).

Bedding removed and replaced as opposed to added to, this is [...]

January 8, 2012   Posted in: Bedding  No Comments

Bedding Sources

Beddings all have their pros and cons, providing they are not harmful to the guinea pigs and allow them to forage (a natural behaviour), it is, for the most part, down to the individual to choose which bedding suits them best. The local farm/farm shop is the best place to get bedding from. Not only [...]

January 12, 2010   Posted in: Bedding  No Comments