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Thank you! I will defo check that out Youve been super helpful :-))

Our guinea pig going off her estimated adoption age she will be approximately 4 years old in April. We’ve had her and her sister nearly a year in that time. In there indoor enclosure is 1/3 fleece liners and 2/3 Aubiose. I have photos to add but haven't managed to upload them on here. When i...

Hi Please follow our regular diet recommendations in this guide here. Your diet is indeed still far too high in calcium. Instead of high calcium cabbage and broccoli, feed a slice of greens once a week. Stay off any fattening root veg; carrot is like block chocolate for a guinea pig. There is a...

4 Seeds in treats Pellets and dry food mixes Seeds in small traces – especially smaller seeds - can be tolerated but I would most strongly not recommend feeding dry mixes or mueslis with any processed coloured chunks, corn or sunflower seeds in them, especially if there are healthier...

As you’re in the Uk, in my opinion, the best forage is from Piggie Parcels. It’s a business run by a member of this forum and I cannot recommend it highly enough. She also makes pellets which are 100% grass and plant pellets. They are, in my opinion, by far the best and certainly the ones I...

The only thing I would say about the cage itself is that do you ever lock him into it? I ask as it doesn’t look big enough for him to be closed into it at all (although picture can be deceptive - the minimum cage size to be locked in is 120x60cm) what do you do when you go out or at night, is...

Thank you so much. I've literally just said to my husband that I can't wait until our boys can go outside again. I deliberately left a big patch of grass lol Ng this year so there was plenty for them to eat. I bought some dried rose petals and marigolds so they could forage, too. This is Fidget...

Hi Since hay makes over three quarters of the daily food intake and is what the digestive system and the dental growth rate is laid out for, your adoptees are doing fine. If you have access to dog pee-free fresh grass, you can start introducing it slowly in order to not unbalance the gut...

Hi, just coming back on here about my girl Cappuccino who is still losing her hair! In my previous thread I sent her for an ultrasound, ultimately the findings were normal, ruled out cystic ovaries and bladder issues (thankfully, as she did pass 1 stone over a year ago and has been on low calc...

Science Selective is perfectly fine and no change needed - just give two tablespoons per piggy per day for a month; sprinkle them around the cage to enourage them browsing and moving around. We have also included Versele Laga in our pellet guide. :)...

1 Seed based diets - NO! - Hamster mixes - Bird mixes - Cavy muesli/dry mix with whole seeds 2 A natural diet: Grass and forage seeds 3 Cultivated seeds in a pet diet - Sweetcorn and other grains - Nuts and sunflower seeds - Fruit - Other vegetables 4 Seeds in treats - Dried forage and flower...

All pellets have calcium but you ideally dont feed alfalfa to adult piggies. If the choice of pellet you have is limited then it’s obviously more difficult unless you choose to go pellet free (but then you have to balance the nutrients through other areas of the diet). Whichever pellet you...

Hi You can feed sub-teenagers under 4 months between 1-2 tablespoons per piggy per day at your discretion. At this age any extra calories are invested in growth. There will come a point when the weight/size ratio reaches a certain percentage of their optimal genetically determined weight/size...

3 Cultivated seeds in a pet diet While the seeds of cucumber, tomato and pepper are perfectly safe to feed to guinea pigs, seeds that have been specifically cultivated for thousands of years as a valuable source of starch and fat should not be regularly given. There is however not a problem...

Hi and welcome My piggies won't eat timothy so I get my meadow hay from Nature's Own with their sweet meadow hay as an added treat hay during the months the fresh grass on my small lawn is not growing well and is lower in nutrients. They do timothy hay as well though. You can find them listed...

...pig vet.xray showed sludge. Treatment plan is..... Septrin 03mls twice aday,loxicom 1mls twice aday. Increase water intake, wet veg. Started cystease.filter water,?pellet free diet. reduce calcium high veg. She is needing syringe feed top ups, as she has lost weight Not sure i can do anymore.

Hi Just a good general hay based diet with only 1 tablespoon of pellets and a cup of preferably mixed green veg plus a daily slice of pepper/capsicum. Make sure that you include a slice of greens or just a little kale or a small rosette of broccoli once a week. You can also instead of the...

Hi everyone! My female guinea pig is squeaking when peeing/pooping, she has been suffering from this for a long time, I visited 3 vets to resolve this problem, she did 2 ultrasound and 1 X-ray. For the first ultrasound she was with lots of gas, the second ultrasound and X-ray (both in the same...

It is possible to feed a pellet free diet but you need to ensure he is getting a good mix of nutrients which would have to come from the veg and wild forage proportion of the diet. Personally I would cut the pellets down rather than entirely out. I only feed pellets three times a week and...

I've tried that sadly they won't eat them