toys...

[Katie]

I am trying to come up with some toys for my newly aquired boys...but so far i am failing!! Gimmie some ideas pleeeeease!!

[faafaa]

Toilet paper tubes cut open up the middle, paper bags, empty tissue boxes. They aren't too picky. Then you can always stuff those things with hay to make them extra fun!

[Katie]

Thanks!! I have tried all of the cardboard tubes and egg boxes but nothing seems to interest them

[Bean]

This page as loads of great ideas on. When my boys were dinky they just liked floortime best though - popcorning about together in a big space with a few hideys/ tunnels in.

[glittze2001]

I am the same,, my piggies more fans of eating and play on in hideys lol x

[3piggles]

Pigs like things they can chew noisily, things that hold food, things they can hide in and things they can play through. Cardboard tubes alone, stuffed with hay or studded with veggies. Cardboard boxes and paper bags with or without an extra door cut in it. Fabric or small towels draped over a section of th cage side inside and out. I use extra grids draped with fabric as tents. My pigloos have back doors. They can be houses or play through items. Pigloos are usually lined up in one long tunnel. if you tried the cardboard tubes alone, try poking slits, sticking small pieces of veggie in each slit, and hanging the tubes just high enough that the pigs have to work to get the treats.

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[Bean]

Oh yes, mine love draped towels - they usually end up pulling them down but they give them a lot of fun!

[Katie]

Brilliant link! Thanks! Its amazing how much you over think stuff. And forget the toys i made for mine 5 years ago!!

[Katie]

Right...I have purchased two cheap towels from the charity shop...and a golf ball. All have been cleaned. I shall hang a towel curtain den. I have removed the hay rack and will make a hay mountain. Hopefully they will start playing and exploring. I have only seen the Foz popcorn once...never seen Skeets do it.

[Bean]

I guess they have to relax a bit before they start popping and yours are still getting used to their new home - I don't think my two did it until they'd been out in the same run for a good few days on the trot. Once they were off though - they didn't stop, it was hilarious!

My mum had the cardboard tube left from a bit of vinyl floor covering she had delivered - lots of loooong tunnels for them, they loved that! Didn't put it in whole thing down for them, wasn't sure I'd be able to get them out!

[Katie]

Yeah thats true. My girls popped sooo much!!
The towel tent has gone down a storm...lots of happy sounds and noses peeking out... hay mountain has be flattened... and the brick under the water bottle is a novelty for hopping up onto.