It can be different for different hogs but these are how often for my two:
My boy hedgie is very neat and tidy. He only uses one area to go to the bathroom so I just spot clean these messes out daily and change out the liner once to twice a week. If I do it twice a week its mainly from powdery crumbs that I can't pick up with my hands. I plan on trying out the dirt devil idea.
My girl hedgie is very very messy and gets poop everywhere. She's been getting a little better with it but when she was a baby I was having to change the liner daily. Improvement for her was when I started only needing to do a full clean out and new liner every other day instead of every day lol

She makes me realize how extremely clean my hedgie Loken is but what she lacks in cleaniness she makes up for in a super social and friendly personality so I'm just happy with them being happy. No matter how messy she gets it its nothing that soap and water and a new liner can't fix so its all good If the liners are really bad I just set them outside in the sunlight and it helps with the smell and being able to pick the poops off better before I bring them in the laundry to room.

 

Carefresh should be replaced every 3 or 4 days. Even with picking out the poop and the wet, there will be pieces that have been dirtied on and missed. That's one thing that is bad about a bedding such as carefresh. People think because it doesn't smell, it doesn't need to be cleaned as often.

Liners need changing every 1 - 4 days, depending on the potty habits of the individual hedgehog.

 

Mine both have cages made of 2 bins and they use only one bin to go to the bathroom so I change the liner of the " bathroom" bin every day and the other one about twice a week. I also use baby wipes to clean the bottom of the bin before I put the new liner. My hedgie room only smells in the morning before I do the clean up.

 

Paprika mostly poos on her wheel, but the poo flakes tend to break into little pieces and get EVERYWHERE in the cage. She also has a strange habit of taking her initial poo and pee for the night standing right infront of her food bowl while she eats, and she also pees alot right infront of her water bowl while she drinks. I can't tell if she's lazy of if she likes the smell of poo/pee right next to her food/water bowls. Either way I'm hoping as she gets older she'll stop this habit and stick to her wheel or litter pan!!!
As of right now though I change her fleece liner every Sunday afternoon and every Wednesday afternoon. But every morning I wash her wheel, replace her paper towel liners in her litter box under the wheel, and use a lint roller to clean up the poo flakes in the cage. The maintence work in the mornings keeps the smell wwaayy down and also makes changing the liners less of a misery

 

I must be either very lucky or have a very bad sense of smell, because I've never really noticed Sherlock's cage being smelly. He does get poop everywhere from his wheel, though. Espeially since I have had to take his liter tray away. He was using it as a toy and flinging it around and making SO MUCH noise. Maybe if I get some real litter to weigh it down, we'll see...

Anyway, I change his liner about once a week. His wheel gets the brunt of his bodily functions.

 

I use two liners in Daisy's cage at a time, one is folded in half under her wheel to catch all her potty buisiness, as she only goes to the washroom while running in her wheel. I change the folded liner daily when I wash the wheel, and as for the other liner I change it twice during the week. However it doesn't get messy or smell, I just like the liners to match. HAHAH>

And I do notice that Daisy is VERY stinky when she goes, I am pretty tolerant to potty smells with a senior cat who has daily accidents, but when Daisy goes I can smell it. It's not as strong or horrid as it was when she first came home and had been eating crappy food, but it's still not a pleasant aromatic.

 

I must be either very lucky or have a very bad sense of smell, because I've never really noticed Sherlock's cage being smelly. He does get poop everywhere from his wheel, though. Espeially since I have had to take his liter tray away. He was using it as a toy and flinging it around and making SO MUCH noise. Maybe if I get some real litter to weigh it down, we'll see...

Anyway, I change his liner about once a week. His wheel gets the brunt of his bodily functions.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too... I got a nasty cold this week and didn't clean any part of Pepper's cage for six whole days (I usually wash his wheel every 1-2 days, depending how filthy he got it the night before, and do spot cleaning) and it looked pretty gross, but didn't smell at all. (Obviously I couldn't smell that much due to my cold, but my housemate confirmed this.)

Anyway, I usually change the liner once or twice a week as Pepper mostly goes on his wheel and in his litter pan, but I do spot clean daily.

 

My hedgie pees in one corner, but poops everywhere. She never use her wheel as toilet and I never have given her a footbath because of dirty feet.

I think I will try fleece liners again

What do you use in their litter pans?

 

Gee, I must be lucky.

Nara only "goes" on the wheel or in the litter box under her wheel. If I can catch her right after she poops, I can clean the wheel before she tracks in it. She used to huff at me, now she sits there patiently and I tell her "you'd rather have me clean this up than give you a footbath!" I use baby "Pee Wee" pads under her wheel, with paper towel on top. This makes it easier to catch accidents. Mostly, she just gets litter and "poop flakes" all over.

I use fleece liners but I have been using scraps to make a extra piece of liner under her food dish and wheel. This way I can just replace this piece or take it out and shake the crumbs off and put it back. I also use "placemats" under her food and water, since she gets crumbs all over. Just shake it out and put it back and it looks nice and tidy.

I have a scrap of fleece as a "door mat" in front of her "house" (it's a ferret tent with a removable bottom) and it catches poopy crumbs from her feet before she goes in to sleep.

I change the liner about twice a week. Right now I have a "Halloween" fleece for her.

I believe in doing things the easy way.

 

My hedgie pees in one corner, but poops everywhere. She never use her wheel as toilet and I never have given her a footbath because of dirty feet.

I think I will try fleece liners again

What do you use in their litter pans?

I use Yesterday's News in Col. Mustard's litter pan. She's litter trained, only pees and poops on her wheel while running or on the litter box. Some poop will "fly" from her wheel and land everywhere, but it's very easy to clean up, I just take the liner outside and shake it.

 

What if she'll pee on the liner, it will be very smelly?

 

I change the fleece liners about once a week - unless something AWFUL happens. :shock: I do, however, have a paper towel under each wheel, and also under food dishes that I replace daily. As usual, Cholla & Zoey are completely opposite. :roll:

Cholla will pretty much only go in his wheel or under it. So that's an easy clean up. However, he leaves crumbs EVERYWHERE. I did get a little dirt devil & now just vacuume up his crumbs.

Zoey will get fidgetty every night during cuddle time & we know that means "potty time" So we put her in the play pool & let her do her business. After that, she's pretty much good for the night. Otherwise, she will use the towel under her wheel. Hardly ever poops on her wheel - bless her. (sidenote - I wish one of these smiley things was a heart - I would sure use that alot!)

 

Prickles poops and pees in one corner but I changed her to kiln-dried pine bedding because she kept shoving and flipping the litter box. I change the bedding every 3 days or so.

 

Kashi only ever goes in his wheel/litter box, but poop flakes do tend to get around the cage. Every morning I clean his wheel + litter box and shake out his liner before putting it back in (he leaves crumbs everywhere, plus he's quilling right now). I change the liner around once a week because he never has any accidents

 

I will cut an acrylic plate to the bottom of the cage and then I sew fleece sheets to the plate so she can't get under it. And then I'll try with toilet paper where she normally pees, so it's won't smell.

Do you think I can use those heat-plates or what it's called, that you also use for reptiles? Or will I set the fleece on fire? (my biggest concern )

 

Do you think I can use those heat-plates or what it's called, that you also use for reptiles? Or will I set the fleece on fire? (my biggest concern )

Reptile heat plates/mats shouldn't be used because they may cause burns on your hedgie's feet. And seeing as fleece is made of polyester, it will not catch on fire really, but rather, it will melt... and if it's hot enough for that then it will definitely burn his feet.

 

Okay, i'll find something else

 

Okay, i'll find something else

Most people here use either space heaters of CHEs ^_^