Hay Carpet

So you may have heard me use the term "hay carpet" before. 

I use that phrase to refer to the times when a chin has hay too often, and so, starts to play with it rather than eat it.  So, they pull all the hay out of their hay feeder, and litter the floor of their cage with it... thus creating a hay carpet.

This is a hay carpet:

We try to avoid this here by only giving hay twice a week (and replenishing more often if needed).  Sometimes, like in the picture, we still get chins that will pull every last strand of hay from their hay feeder into their cage... for no other reason than hey, it's fun!!

But if you give fresh hay daily, and they always have oodles of it, this is more likely to happen.