They don't seem to mind their shelter is now translucent. Are there any pros and cons compared to darkness?

Are you going to eat some of them? Or are they just for taking care of the grass? I ask this because in some parts of the world they're used as food

Are the lil dudes for eating or for selling offspring or why do you breed them? Just very curious

Why don't you insert PVC pipe through opposite sides. Through a square in the fence. On both ends and add wheels. The wheels being outside the cage. The wheels set low to prevent escapes. Fun experiment that you're doing. Good luck.

how cold or heat tolerant are guinea pigs? how big are the litters and how often do they breed? interesting concept. enjoyed video.

Are stray cats simply not an issue in your area or have you taken measures to discorage them from visiting your farm over the years?

wheels

I’d like to have mine outside as well. What does their diet consist of? Obviously grass and hay…do u use pellets any? Fruits for vitamin C?

I have the sulation. You have a long stick inside the tube in the middle that it sticks out the fence. It doesn't raise it much to the height you wished. Like a inch. Done.

Where I live, the snakes, cats, dogs, foxes and other predators would eat them in those loose cages. The dogs would be some protection, but not enough. Also, the rain torrents here would probably drown them not to mention the heat in the summer. I live in Northern Alabama and I have a hard time keeping rabbits and chickens alive. They are very cute, though

Hey, sorry to say but- 1. if a guinea pigs eats grass that has animal urine/pestisids on it they could get sick. 2. guinea pigs need more space, guinea pigs need 7.5 sqare per guinea atleast, they also need more hidouts. 3. guinea pigs need more care, guinea pigs need daily watch and inspections to make sure they're ok, I suggest you research them closer. This is not hate but feedback. :3

Can't believe you caught them all! I thought they would be long gone!

Something to keep in mind when using a hole saw on plastic, is that you get a much cleaner hole if you run it in reverse. It won't bite in and kick either.

Put it on skids and have a roof aka a chicken tractor. Good vid

Oh yes, and buy an EMT pipe cutter to cut them. That way you save a lot of time because you won't need to deburr the cuts. They come in various sizes and aren't too expensive.😊

Fun fact: In Switzerland it is illegal to own a singular Guinea pig, it is considered unethical to trap a Guinea pig without a social partners

Farmers have nothing but time. Spend days trying to figure how to save 30 seconds/day? It’s 1/2 an acre of blueberries for Pete sake.

It’s making you fertilizer Add it to your pile of organics. What’s the end for the GP? Meat? Give to the local farm dogs or come to think of it a migrant would love to buy it so they can make food for their people. I’m sure they wouldn’t have a proble. Regardless you can feed a lot with that so let the population run. Even mix in with feed for the occasional protein supplement. Guinea pigs like chickens are born ready to go and eating off the ground.

Have two straps/twine with clips on the ends. clip them to the sides so the cross in the center. lift all at once. Have tarp or comparable material as an apron 6” to prevent bolting. Have spring loaded pogo sticks that pivot the apron from down to out as it’s set back down? I’ve seen a farmer move a whole chicken coup this way. Squat, lift, walk and drop.

There’s always one that gets the assignment.

What size brooder would I need for 3 duck chicks H.W.L thanks

Does the dog protect them at night? Of not what about coyotes, raccoons, or whatever your predators are…

Love how you use the rat bait holders as their house!

The dog is a great pointer. Keep a single white male duck out there, not a pair, he will keep them as his flock and protect against aerial predators.

Two sheep would have been so much easier and less time consuming

I would only be afraid of aerial predators. If you put a clear tarp over they get the sun, would keep some heat in for the winter, especially when aerial predators have lack of food due to snow or it being colder. Would not have to be across it all, just more of a deterrent for free rein of a corralled area.

Never realized how good we have it in Maine with wild low bush blueberries. The barrens get burned every couple of years, which takes care of all the weeds and fertilizes the next crop. The blueberries grow back from the roots and carpet the area. Of course, bending over to rake them is tough work.

Blue tunnel, …….BABIES!

Insulated house, with solar heat pads.

Your lawnmowers are very cute, sir !

Get some airtags, you only need 160! I love this project so much, cutest idea

Hey - we used to run our boy guinea pigs wild around the yard - the trick to getting them not to run off, is too put a couple of girls in a cage... the boys'll stick around. So if your boys get out again, you could have a small girl cage for 'calling' them back. If we wanted to catch the boys, we would put a girls cage, then three sides of a bigger cage around it, with one corner touching (aka a trap!), wait until they go to circle the cage (which ours always did, then block off the other end, and if necessary, keep cornering them smaller and smaller until you can catch them :)

😁 yes 30min wasted. But I still enjoy your video and all the experiments. Thx for the video and thx for wasting my time 🤣

One thing that struck me when you were letting them walk to the moved house was that you put the house down with the openings facing different directions. I would put the house down with one entrance facing where you're lifting the fencing. That way they'll see it and it'll be a straight run for them, rather than going around a corner. Also there's the cuy guinea pigs, which are bred and raised for meat. Personally I don't have experience with them but know that they are larger and more skittish than "ordinary" guinea pigs. They're kept in south America and I don't know if they are hardier than the pet piggies. What I do have experience with is keeping guinea pigs all my life, we kept them outside in wooden cages my dad built during the summer (or from when it was frost free to first frosts) they had babies out there and did well. This was in Sweden so keeping them outside in winter was not an option!! Also my piggies would be sitting on top of those houses in no time 🤓

Give them vitamin C

So, the aerodynamic profile of the huts is actually a detriment. The wind doesn't get inside and pop them up, what happens is the wind overtop moves faster as they're shaped a bit like an air foil. This causes a low pressure zone above the hut and the normal air pressure inside is what pops them up. Then when they pop up, the wind obviously takes them away. The good news, is that a couple of wood batons will work just fine to weigh them down as there's a limited amount of lift the air foil effect will generate. Plus the wood will give the pigs sometimes hard to chew on for tooth health.

I feel like the easiest way to stormproof the IBCs is to drill a few holes around the edges and tent-peg them into the grass. They won't be any heavier to move, you'll just have to pull a few tent pegs each time you move them. A few extra seconds, but no extra weight.

IMO the IBCs were worth more sold off as IBCs and you could've just bought a handful of those 1m by 1m by 10inch kiddy pools. Just a thought for next time - just because you have an item that will work that doesn't necessarily mean you should use it for the project. Having said that idk how much IBCs sell for in your area, if its practically nothing then you can ignore what I've said I guess.

We kept ours on grasss all year round, with a similar wire pen to yours. They just need some decent shelter. We trained them to jump in a crate to be taken home at the end of the day.

When you move the IBC huts to the edge of the enclosure, you can anchor them with some branches or rods sticking through the holes in the chicken wire. To be completely sure they stay down, you could use a couple of pegs on the enclosure.

What about fox, coyote, fisher, skunk, etc?

Maybe test *empty* crates for storm durability.

The wind on the bigger huts might be easily countered... Like you said battons on the bottom edge... A few eyebolts through the wood+plastic and tent harings (or an L shaped piece of rebar for that matter) to pound into the ground, when the weather gets bad.

I was wondering if nylon straps could be connected to either side of the cage, in a "U" fashion, so you could pick up the whole crate by grabbing both straps and lifting... might collapse because it's not "rigid" diagonally, but a simple brace could fix that... sorry, I overthink things. Y'all are doin' great.

You make me so jealous! What a wonderful life

This is amazing. You got a new sub! Love to see how this develops. Thank you and keep it up

Why not Goats?

What if you added the tube (small gray pipe) back, and mounted it to the side of the cage, so the guinea pigs will hide in there during the move and you don't have to where them about them escaping (You can even put a cap on one side and of the door on the other so they definitely couldn't escape) and you wouldn't the effort of moving the tube around. I don't know if you wanted to go with the larger black pipe anymore, because of the manure issue, but I also thought of an idea where you could use the cage riding up the tube to your advantage, you can add some (maybe 4?) straps to the cage and mount them to the tube, so where when you drag the cage, it will riding up on to the pipe and slide smoother, but the straps would hold it from going too far over the pipe. I don't know if any of this makes sense or would be helpful, but it seems like a fun challenge, keep up the great work!

You could try building large 'permanent' guinea pig rows with segmented mesh covers so you can lift the covers to walk around while also letting the guineas graze throughout the entire pathway.

Try and stay outside yourselves in that weather. I doubt yous could but expect these pigs to.