Hi y'all, made my first post here. I'm Vince and just had some few questions of my guinea pigs.

Here are Mikey (pronouce as Mee-key) and Lily. They were 2 months+ old.

Mikey


Lily


I'm trying to build a C&C cage for my lovely piggies though they were living in a normal rabbit cage now (though I felt bad for them).

1. Coroplast seems to be an easy material to find but they seems to be pre-cut already, so anyone knows where I can find the wholesale version of coroplast so that I do not need to combine then physically for each of coroplast.

2. And if #1 is succeed, I was thinking of magic carpet (heard of it?) to be as bedding, how about that?

3. Except in Daiso, anyone knows where I can find relevant cubes. (Though cubes in Daiso were planting cubes for gardening).

Thanks for the response though!

Hmm means only limited shops have it, though I'm not living in town city, so might not able to find it, but I'll try.


2. Is it? I only heard it many times fleece but never seen it so don't know, well magic carpet is at Jusco or Parkson.
3. I was seeing some metal cubes in Daiso (for RM5 each of course) ranges from 33cm x 33cm to 33cm x 55cm so I'm thinking it might help.

In melaka, hmm art work wholeseller lol, where could it be, gift shops probably? art work as in doing painting? Livin cabin? Lovely Lace?

Well don't "they" (metal gardening cubes) look almost similar and performs almost similar functionality at Daiso? I guess it's the best bet I can find, quality was okay for a DIY-cage.

Go to Jusco, go to kitchen & appliance department where all the tuplewares are and somewhere near the hanging clothes stick and toilet mats, then look for magic carpets which they come from packing type and also one big roll type as you can ask the sales assistant to cut it for you how long you want it.

This post has been edited by imvinceong: Mar 4 2010, 06:30 PM

Yea well the metal cubes in Daiso are for gardening mainly used in hanging utensils so they can said it's strong, just like the fences for a normal rabbit cage.

Yeap! You've got me. I wonder if that suits for guinea pigs.

Ooh.. sounds very pratical, hmm not much of design students here, medical got, IT got, engineering got, business got, yayasan got.

I'll try my very best, thank you!

Yes right though these mats have small little hole so it's not good.

Ah okay, will definitely look for it and majority were using it so yes.

Well the cubes which is 33cm x 33cm for RM5 aren't cheap too if your cage is big.


BBQ grill? You mean those thick rugged 'dawai'? Can they withstand the pressure?

Hardware shop definitely got right?

Ah ok. Thanks anyway though I'll be going for Daiso's gardening cube.

Now needs some local friends' help for the uncut coroplast..

This post has been edited by imvinceong: Mar 5 2010, 06:20 PM

Okay great info, will definitely look for it. Thanks.

Great job! Two weeks+ ?? looks to me like 2 months already.

Hi.. I think fleece will be better, I don't recommend the brown shavings which they will only make your cage dirty and messy, I guess hay alternatively can be bedding or maybe a hay rack.

About the grids, I guess the ordinary BBQ grill or cook grill is the best bet for a Malaysian C&C cage, since they were stainless steel and it's cheap too (RM2.90 for 10" x 10" in Jusco, maybe even cheaper in hardware shop), they comes in different sizes too, well don't buy the thick and heavy BBQ grill which then will cost you about RM16.90 for about 10" x 14", just the normal one will do.

Any materials that resemble cubes should be fine, the most important thing is stable, firm and rust-free. Well the default pet cages are suitable for all small animals but C&C cage is uniquely-designed just for guinea pigs.

I wondered if those local flowery hay that sold in square packets (can be found in almost all pet shop, old shop specifically) are good for guinea pigs? They were some cheap local hay I guess. The thing is that they have its smell which is different from branded hay. So..?


Yes it is!

Replied to your post again, this might help, they said put cotton towels underneath fleece, hmm..

About the sexing, female guinea pig which is also called sow has a Y-shaped of genital and also the top middle part is indented, however a male guinea pig or a boar has a "i-shaped genital and easily can identify by notify if the top middle part is facing outward or beveled.

Well I guess most of guinea pigs will definitely felt scared when they were at young age, so that's something common and logical so don't worry about it. My advice is don't carry them out so frequently at the young age which then you will only give them a phobia since they are small and your hand is big so it's make sense however.

Try feeding them something like vegs manually with your hand then at the same time keep repeating her names, persuading to come to you.

I have a 3 months+ boar and a newly-welcome 1 month sow, I don't worry much about it since both of them get used it easily, play around and even the boar prurring when I take the sow out of cage.

Just got my commercial-type coroplast, it's 8ft x 4 ft for RM60 and luckily they trim it to my desired size for me. I can recommend the advertising shop if anyone in Melaka is looking for it, and I also got the BBQ grill from Jusco. Building my C&C now, see ya.

Okay done!



50" x 28" white colour. I don't use fleece, I use the less-wool carpet at the moment, still thinking about the bedding. Actual 3mm coroplast and stainless steel BBQ grills.

This post has been edited by imvinceong: Mar 25 2010, 03:07 AM

Oh okay thanks for the idea, yea now I'm combining their poops at one area hoping they will observe that place for pooping. Yes that's the coroplast hand-made house, I cable-tie tied it up so won't get destroy by them. Hmm I'm using carpet at the moment, so the material is thick and heavy, I want to see how long can it last for the pee smell.

Thanks! Ya that's actually normal, collect and clean the poop to make sure the cage is clean and they are clean too else stepping their own poop and laying down on the wet pee area. That is the normal rabbit cage I assumed which I think the most convenience cage ever since there's tray so much useful, just throw the newspaper and replace with new one.