Planning to have a German Cage Style - Cleaning Issue

[tyming]

Hi, I am new here.
I am planning to have like german cage style where i intend to have it filled with organic soil and let the hamster burrow its on home. Question is ho do i clean the cage without destroying his own burrowed home? I heard that i need to take out some of the soil and mix like 1/3 of new soil monthly but that will destroy the burrow hole if i need to mix around the soil?

My intention is to have the hamster burrow its own home etc... is this making sense?

[AmityvilleHams]

Soil of any kind including organic soil is not safe so that idea will need to be changed completely.

A properly sized cage with deep enough substrate would never need to be fully cleaned with the obvious exceptions of things like mold, mites, medical conditions requiring fully disinfected cages as a part of the treatment, etc - things which are the extreme and not exactly relevant to the average healthy hamster. Spot cleaning and the occasional small partial clean(tiny sections of the cage's substrate being removed at a time and replaced essentially) you end up having a clean cage with a very happy and far less stressed hamster!

[Yanathehammie]

I agree, soil can be very dangerous so I would steer clear of it. If you have an adequately sized cage with lots of bedding you certainly will not need to clean the burrows/nest often.