Hi Hedgie Lover
I just checked my box – it’s 11″ x 13″ x 7″ for the actual chamber. To be honest, I’ve always thought it was small, especially in depth, for a hibernation nest to be built in it.
I did have a nest in there one winter. Lovely nest but built by a hoglet so not a large hog and the hog didn’t hibernate just used the nest on and off for overday stays.
That box in the image looks as if it has a very wide ‘corridor’, which seems a bit of a waste of the space, but having a corridor of some sort, should help to shelter it from the wind a bit. Personally I prefer boxes which have the entrance (using that box and the placement of the corridor as an example) on the left hand side (but fairly near to the front), rather than on the front. So that the hog has to go in and turn immediately left, go along the corridor and turn right to enter the chamber. That arrangement is also slightly better at deterring cats, if it was being used as a feeding box.
