Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post


*Update*

A note of caution, I have gone through quite a few wheels for these buggers, and the only ones we have available around here are the powder coated metal wire wheels.

The ASF's have chewed off the paint on a few of them, and in those tubs the wire of the wheel rusted pretty easily and one of my males now has sores on the bottom of his feet.

If you are going to consider giving them wheels, avoid any powder coated (painted) wheels, but go for stainless steel ones, or plastic.

I have been keeping wheels away from the coming up litters for some time now, and my breeders have been removed from them completely this past weekend.

In return I gave them a bunch of things to chew and destroy including very thick cardboard tubes, seeds, wood blocks, dog biscuits, and also many types of paper products to shred, since we all know how they freak when we take away something they depend on for stress release.
Thanks for that tip - I'll watch with my guys and their wheels. I use the same that you have pictured and I've not had any chewing of the wheels (they're too busy spinning each other out of the wheel to have time to chew - quite cute with five crammed on one wheel and some go flying out the sides when they get going! LOL)

Knock on wood, no chipped/chewed paint and no rust on any of my wheels - been using them since April.