I have a foraging puzzle toy and a treat ball that my pigs love, but I'm trying to keep their calcium levels low due to urinary issues in one of them.
Does anyone have suggestions for low calcium treats?
1 What is Forage?
2 Benefits of forage
3 Finding the perfect forage mix
4 Making your own forage mix
What is forage?
Forage is a assortment of grasses, flowers, roots, barks and herbs that can be used as a treat or to replace pellets in part of a diet. This also adds variety to a piggies diet...
Urgent, mom just said I'm not getting pellets tomorrow.
She thinks I'm having more fun with scattered forage and it has calcium in it.
We've been foraging for ten minutes and Chez popcorned.
She thinks we love it more than pellets, but I want both
Dear Stripe
We get both pellets and forage. It's complete sacrilege to think that you won't get both. We get our allowance of 1 tablespoon per piggy per day of pellets for breakfast (scatterfed) and we have a supper of 3 pea flakes each, 3 apple chunks and a bowl of forage. You need to make...
I’m sorry to hear this.
I would agree that there is likely too much dried forage, peaflakes and pellets.
One tablespoon of forage is enough.
Pellets - one tablespoon (or less even) once a day.
The veggies they can eat every day are lettuce, cucumber, coriander and bell pepper. Everything...
Piggie parcels do specific urinary health forage parcels as well as joint support pellets which have glucosamine so also beneficial for urinary health.
More pics. Featuring some nice pear tree leaves that I foraged today.
Shimmer raced under the bed with a piece of cucumber and rumbled loudly at Saffron!
They did share nicely later on.
...etc to make them move and search.
Its also why we say to use loose piles of hay (in trays etc ia fine) so they can get right into the hay and forage and play in it rather than putting it in a hayrack where they then have limited access
(The very best form is enrichment is having a friend...
...hydrated.
Thanks for you insight that what I’m finding is a sign of SC flare.
I’m just trying to figure out what is causing it.
The fresh forage, some new dried forage or me trying to reduce her medication.
For now I’ll keep the Metacam and Cerenia at the current doses.
Their normal...
...on a pellet free diet? Mine already get mountains of unlimited hay and 1 cup fresh veggies each per day, alongside small amounts of dried forage. We have already moved away from commercial treats and instead give pea flakes and dried beetroot. I just have a few questions to help me think this...
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