Degu cage on a budget 

- please note this cage was further altered before the Degus moved in!

I was thinking how i started using average house hold items and cheap items in pets cages and tanks. I worked for a charity farm and money was always an issue so i started looking through the unwanted items in sheds and garages.  We had this cage donated, it had few shelves and no accessories and we decided to get degus for the farm. Degus are similar to chinchillas in care, they require space, they aren't climbers as much as they are jumpers so each level can't be high. They will climb the cage bars but unlike rats can't climb as well so this needs to be looked at when setting up a cage like this. We did add more shelves at a later date using cardboard tubes and hammocks because if you look in the middle of the cage, it does have quite a big open space.
The below picture was taken before we finished and the degus arrived but as you can see we used scrap pine for shelves. Wicker baskets which were attached to the cage bars to double up as shelves and a chew toy. The bared shelves that the degus would get their feet caught in were cover in fleece. The hanging basket was also covered in coco fibre sheets and filled with hay, which was their favourite place to hand out. The rest we had lying around already. As this was a while back and one of the few pictures i already had i thought i would show the kind of things i will cover on here.