Wagg Twitch Guinea Pig Nuggets, 2kg

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Harringtons Optimum Guinea Pig Food is a pellet-based food consisting of 17% protein and 17% fibre, both of which are about reasonable for a guinea pig’s daily diet. The pellet-based food helps prevent selective eating, whereby a guinea pig eats its favorite ingredients and leaves the ingredients it doesn’t like. Oat Fibre, Wheat Fibre, Sunflower Meal, Grass Meal, Carob Bean Meal, Apple Pomace (2%), Calcium Carbonate, Peas (1%), Linseed (1%), Vegetable Oil, Minerals, MOS (0.05%) It is a very reasonably priced food that has been fortified with vitamin C, an essential ingredient in guinea pig food. It also includes vitamins A, D, and E. Vitamin D is especially important to indoor guinea pigs because they will not be getting any of these essential vitamins from the sun. This is a big bag of food, which means that you won’t have to buy it too often, but the weight of the food causes a lot of the pellets to crush, so expect some dust in the bottom of the bag when it arrives.

Guinea pigs are small, cute and like their food. We love our little pets and as their owners, we want to make sure they get the nutritional food that they need to stay healthy and happy. Unlike some pets, guinea pigs need different types of food to complete their full diet, so it’s good to know exactly what they will need every day. Vitamin C is water-soluble, which means that small amounts of excess vitamin C pass through the kidneys and are safely expelled by the body as urine. It is very difficult to give a cavy too much vitamin C when feeding a combination of hay, pellets, and vegetables, although it is possible to do so if you give a liquid or powder supplement. By making sure that the food does have good vitamin C levels, you can avoid the possibility of giving too much. Hay Image Credit: Alexas_Fotos, Pixabay You should feed approximately 1 cup of fresh vegetables per day. Giving a variety of different veggies over the course of the week will keep your cavy interested and prevent it getting bored of the same food, while also enabling you to meet all vitamin and mineral requirements for your pet. Experts generally recommend a diet consisting of 18%-20% protein and 10%-16% fibre. A little higher or lower than this should be safe for a healthy adult, and if your vet has advised a high or low fibre diet, you should follow these recommendations to ensure good health. The Importance of Vitamin C

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They also need fresh fruit and veg to keep a healthy diet. Leafy greens like lettuce and cabbage are great options, plus herbs such as basil, rosemary and dill will go down a treat. Seedless chopped apple and mango are yummy additions to keep your guinea pig eating away. They’ll even munch on kale (which will probably make you feel a little guilty about your diet choices).

Feed twice a day, at regular times if possible. It is unkind to over-feed your guinea pig. Clean fresh water should always be available and remember to change your guinea pig's bedding frequently. While hay should form the main bulk of the diet and should be in constant supply as it is needed to keep their digestive systems functioning correctly and to help keep their ever-growing teeth worn down, a guinea pig food should be fed alongside it to ensure that a complete and balanced diet is being provided. We recommend feeding a nugget based guinea pig food as these offer a nutritious diet in the form of extruded pellets, allowing your pet to take in all the necessary nutrients from the food, whereas muesli based foods tend to encourage selective feeding which can lead to nutrient deficiencies. Our complementary guinea pig feed is designed to be fed alongside a diet that is up to 85% hay or fresh grass. It contains extra vitamin C, essential to keep your guinea pig healthy, and linseed to help promote a healthy skin and coat. High quality ingredients are combined into a single nugget formula to avoid selective feeding and promote a balanced diet.Cucumbers are not toxic to guinea pigs and are, therefore, quite safe to feed. They are also low in sugar, which means that they should not cause your cavy to put on weight. However, they also have a high moisture content and are low in vitamin C. This means that while they can eat cucumber, most guinea pigs would benefit from being given better quality and more nutritionally beneficial foods instead. Feed no more than a slice or two, two or three times a week. Conclusion Related: The dog subscription boxes you’d be barking mad to miss How can I make feeding my guinea pig fun? Thank-you for the tips guys. I will look in to different pellets because I do worry about what dry food they're getting at the moment and for a couple of months I've suspected wagg crunch isn't that amazing. I'll try and get a sample of the burgess food to see what they think.

We used to feed our first girls gertie guinea pig food, which is similar to wagg crunch as it is different shapes and colours. It does, as you have said make them selectively eat some bits over others... Is it worth swaping? Some may say it is... I'm not so sure. The promblem with fakes is they have lots of colourings in so i wiulnt choose to feed that to our pigs now. But our girls ate Gerty guinea from day one and lived until they were 4 and 5 so it did them no harm.Make sure they always have quality grass and/or hay every day to keep them satisfied. Fresh water and grass to graze is the best foundation for a quality guinea pig diet. If we miss you on the first delivery attempt, we will try again the next working day. Alternatively, you can visit DHLand easily re-arrange your delivery to something which suits you better! You can choose from the following options: Meg our lone girl has burgess excel pellets and Cookie and Treacle have Wagg pellets which are now called Harringtons pellets.

As regrds to veggies, Here is a link to a thread by Laura on calcium and phosphorus ratios, halfway down the thread it gives you an idea on feeding frequencies on foods http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/...sphorus-Ratios-Explained-Diet-Advice-included If your pet isn’t finishing their food, then you could be giving them too much or they might just not like it. It’s worth trying a bit less food or a different type of food to see how they get on. If they leave food, make sure to remove it after a couple of hours so they don’t consume rotten or off food. If they’re leaving a lot of food and the changes don’t work, then make sure to call your vet, as there could be something more serious going on. How do I introduce new food into my guinea pig’s diet?You can effectively give an unlimited amount of natural hay each day without it leading to illness or overfeeding. If your guinea pig is putting on weight, it is more likely to be the pellets or the vegetables and treats that you are feeding. Vegetables Wagg Twitch Guinea Pig Food is a complementary feed developed to be fed alongside your guinea pig’s normal diet of at least 85% hay or fresh grass. I want to start buying bales of hay but not a clue where I'd keep it! So at the moment I get it bagged. So expensive though. But they have 24 hour access to it so they never run out, I make sure I top it up all the time Not only are bananas considered safe for guinea pigs but because they are rich in fibre, vitamin A and vitamin B, and contain some essential vitamin C, but they are considered a somewhat healthy treat to feed. However, they are high in sugar, so should only be given sparingly and only fed as a treat rather than as a staple part of their diet. Can Guinea Pigs Have Cucumbers?