when to move GPs indoors

[fridayfreedom]

I know this has been asked before but was wondering when those of you who bring GPs indoors when it gets colder generally do this.
Have noticed that the mornings are getting quite chilly and despite the hutch being in the shed and the nestbox being stuffed full of hay, big pig is looking like a big ginger puff when we go in to feed them.
Have just bought an enormous indoor cage, Yes DH is away this weekend!! as he thinks they should be out all winter!!!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Some GPs do stay out all winter though - but don't tell your DH that

I'm in Essex and got my pigs last year (as adults.They were one year old boars)
I brought them in for Guy Fawkes Weekend mainly because of the noise.
Then probably for nights early December.
I know their waterbowl froze overnight (they weren't out in their Pighouse overnight) - not completely but this was inside their house.

I'm hoping to spin it out till November, but playing by ear.
Extra hay now! Going onto Deep Litter Bedding.

[fridayfreedom]

Thanks for that.
DD wants them in asap but only so she can talk to them more. Am hoping Gary will become more chatty when he comes in as he lets Pig pig ie Gizzy do all the talking for him!!!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

DH and I were discussing where to put the GP cage for winter - they were in the dining room last year but we kept tripping over the corner of the cage (and their hay gets everywhere ).

Our GP2 is very quiet compared to GP1.
GP1 is a squeaky,wheeky rumblestrutty boy
GP2 purrs when he's cuddled (that quick ,higher pitched purr than the rumble) and does a grunty snuffling hog noise when he finds food that he likes the smell of.

But last winter he threw his foodbowl about when it was empty.And if I dared to have a weekend lie-in , he was rattling the bars.
"God dammit woman where are you.It's 7.30 and us boys have been awake for hours because we're starving "

[fridayfreedom]

hmm sounds familiar..Gizzy does the "i'm starving" bit, although it's very obviuos that he does have a few reserves!!!

[ByTheWay1]

We keep ours outdoors all year round - they moved into our (unused) garage for a few days during the freezing snowy weather 18 months ago, but apart from that outside - my eldest daughter developed an allergy to piggies when she started handling them regularly, and can no longer have them in the house even for short periods - our youngest daughter cuddles them outdoors or in the garage. (the eldest sometimes can't resist, takes her antihistamine, but has to have a shower straight after or her eyes go really red.)