construction of guinea pig cage...

[vx220]

...what wood?

indoor only, but might like to stain or varnish the outside (obviously out of chewing range) so any advice on wood and coatings would be brilliant!

cheers

[Le TVR]

Ours have been made out of all sorts of scrap wood, pine, ply, obechi even a bit of oak. Generally lined with offcuts of flooring vinyl. One was made out of a huge pile of floorboard offcuts (damn heavy to lift though!)

[PumpkinSteve]

Pine is poisonous to Guinea Pigs but I have four of them in separate pine boxes (not coffins ) and they don't chew at all. I used Ronseal quick drying matt varnish to coat the inside faces of the wood.

My 'Pigs' are indoor only and instead of a cage I built a 4 x 2 foot wooden box, without a lid. Here is the one I built for my Tortoise, the Guinea boxes are identical to this but obviously don't have soil in:



Much better than cages IMO.

[Mubby]

i had a cage panel system when i had piggies, I had laminate on the bottom and could change it easily, see here for what im talking about!

http://www.guineapigcages.com/index.htm

edit: just found a pic, not very good and years old!

Edited by Mubby on Tuesday 29th May 09:38