Penny saving ideas!

Hello everyone

i am new to the forum, I have 2 Bun's who have a setup at my stables, one is a male fawn and white lionhead and the other is a wild bun (Long LONNNG storey he was born wild but hand reared as a pole cat had him and he needed care but got too used to dogs/humans/cats etc blah blah!)

Lionhead is called Russel and my wild bun is Ron.

I am also owned by 2 horses Alfie and Frank, 2 cats Stinky (Tinkerbelle) and Lilly, my faithful patterdale terrier Bobby and my 2 tanks of fish one cold water one tropical with Shrimps in

I am always keen to hear peoples money saving ideas for toys, fun things for the Bun's or money saving tips in general so thought I would start a post to hear your ideas!

Look forward to contributing as much as I can

Thank you

The obvious Free Toys are cardboard boxes (large ones with cut-outs for entry/exit), kitchenroll/looroll tubes and twigs and fir cones. Some buns will love ripping old telephone directories or playing with towels/terry nappies or similar.

Yep mine just love boxes, loo rolls, kitchen rolls and throwing plastic bottles and tubs around

Ahhhh I am so lucky I work in a pet store so get no end of boxes in all shapes designs and sizes! and discount on my animal feed too!!

mine like the plastic plant pots, they love running about with them x

hi There,

Welcome to you all to HH.

Cant wait to hear more about your gorgeous boys and girls.

Buns like things they can throw, chew, roll and dig in.

A dig box is a really good idea as are loo roll tubes filled with hay and cardboard boxes to play in and chew - as much space as possible is a must.

Are your two buns bonded together?

Please feel free to ask any questions you might have and join in the chatter x xx x

Katieb wrote:hi There,

Welcome to you all to HH.

Cant wait to hear more about your gorgeous boys and girls.

Buns like things they can throw, chew, roll and dig in.

A dig box is a really good idea as are loo roll tubes filled with hay and cardboard boxes to play in and chew - as much space as possible is a must.

Are your two buns bonded together?

Please feel free to ask any questions you might have and join in the chatter x xx x

What do you use for a dig box Katie? I want to do this, but there is no way im bringing a box of soil in our flat!!! and if i use hay he will just think it is his toilet!!!

I use a large carboard box filled with pellet type litter - which the buns don't have in their litter tray. Flo loves digging in it.

Hi & Welcome to HH

Our's love yogurt pots as they can pick them up and toss them about, loo rolls stuffed with hay, plastic plant pots all sizes stuffed with hay, old towels that they can bunch up and if you hang a towel off a chair they just love to go under it

Ahhh the plant pots sound fab didnt think of those!

I have some plastic crates in there runs that the farmers use to pick the Jersey Royals! there fab and make good platforms they can be stacked and click together so no end of possibilities! Currently have one with a spongebob square pants fleece over it I use them to stack as horse jumps too!

No there not bonded, the wild Bun has always been alone they can however see each other through the run and from hutch to hutch, they both seem quite happy living in this arrangment so I am not to fussed about them living together for the foresseable future.

A dig box is also a lovely idea! I have a pile of bedding in one corner that Russ digs up but a box of earth would be fab thankfully my buns are in a stable that i converted (Winter house) so flinging soil everywhere isn't an issue

Yoghurt pots is also another fab idea! thank you

Winter set up is a 12x12 stable split into 2 runs summer set up will be quite a bit bigger as have the whole top yard area that sits idle to use.

Have some phots will upload them tonight

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome! X

Sounds like a fab fab set up, cant wait to see some pics! x x

Welcome to the Forum! Look forward to hearing more about your lovely big family.

I'm in the process of making a dig tray, a simple gravel tray filled with DIY top soil (as recommended by the lovely folk on this forum)

Hi and welcome to HH

We produced a really good article on enrichment for our e-zine Hopping Mad, and there's some videos on the you tube channel as well

Stuff the kitchen roll tubes with hay, this makes it more exciting for them.