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Morning, Yes I was just curious because he had his last x Ray on nye and he was clear but I wondered how quickly they can grow. He’s on the grain free nuggets but I’m gonna start giving them filtered water as we have a filter in the house. Just trying to think of everything to try and stop...

Hi You check the individual 'heft' (or BMI if you wish) around the ribcage at any point and size in their lives. In a healthy piggy you can just feel the ribs. In an overweight guina pig you cannot feel the ribs at all. In an underweight guinea pig you can feel every single rib. Only once you...

Hello and welcome to the forum. :) I think you'll find this guide really informative: Weight - Monitoring and Management Your guinea pig is probably not overweight, so don't try and reduce her diet or anything as this would do more harm than good. 660g is very light for an adult guinea pig...

So I can give a cup mixed of the four veg you said above every day and little bits of new veg every so often? how come baby piggies need the same amount of food as older piggies, thought they would need less and you would increase food amount as the piggies got older. This is all so different...

Depends on the piggy! Every pig can vary in size. Do weekly weight checks and provide an appropriate diet. At 6 months old they are considered to be adult but they really don’t stop growing until 14-15 months old. Have a wellness exam with an exotic vet and have them confirm it’s a boy. The...

At that age, they are fed exactly the same as an adult. Pellets are one tablespoon per pig per day. They do not need baby pellets and I would not recommend you bother doing so. Baby pellets contain alfalfa which is not recommended. Technically you can feed them the baby pellets but you...

Yes that’s the same pain relief. If it is IC then you are doing what would be recommended.

It can be unfortunately really difficult to work out things once you have excluded all the more obvious issues. Personally I don't think that it is diet related. You can get bloating issues with heart problems (which are not always easy to diagnose at all) but they can also be from pain...

As Piggies&buns mentioned, muesli isn't the best thing to feed and they really don't need that many pellets. Focus on giving a lot of grass hay. Even for the pregnant mums. (While mums are nursing you can give a few extra pellets, but ultimately the diet should be mostly hay). My 8 were on...

This is their diet 1 tablespoon of grain free pellets, filtered water, natures own 5 a day hay, cucumber, little gem, green pepper, coriander, with added celery past few days. I'm leaving that out. I have 2 piggies, & its not nice hearing them squeak when they do a really white wee. Its not...

The vet has given us antibiotics to rule out an infection and had just said to keep in touch. She's been on antibiotics for two nights now. But last night she was squeaking a lot. She's on filtered water and low calcium veg. Pellets, I need to change but I'm currently giving a low amount.

So sorry keep posting similar things. I suffer anxiety, & I'm worried about my piggies. No problems for the first month of having them. Then possible UTI, for one of them. Was sorted. Had x ray, scan, urinalysis to rule out bladder stones, crystals. Got the all clear. As a precaution going...

Hi Please weigh your piggies on your normal kitchen scales daily first thing in the morning instead of once weekly so you can monitor the actual food intake. Over three quarters of the diet is unlimited hay, which you cannot control by eye. Your girls not eating their veg is like missing out on...

Thank you so much for all of this information! I'm going to start researching some different pellets but they are really picky with pellets. I had tried maybe 4 other brands before Oxbow and Oxbow is the only ones they will eat. But even then they aren't huge on them. I give a measured...

Thank you. I can't decide what's best. They have a cage set up that is almost identical at my families house. I kind of wanted to be in when the new neighbours moved in so they are aware it's not soundproofed 🤣. But stress is off the scale and I'm worried about noise for them as well as my...

I will start cutting her food down to 1 tbsp per day. Is it okay to start today or should I do it gradually? Also, I found a conversation on this website where many people say to feed your guinea pig grain free pellets if they have bladder issues. I ordered some and it will arrive soon. Do I...

Drying to a powder is normal, gritty isn’t normal. As I said, a diet too low in calcium can also produce the same powdery pees (which may make you assume it’s because calcium is too high) because the balance is wrong in the diet. The problem with the calcium/phosphorous ratio is that it can...

I can’t find the ca:p ratio but to be honest the ca:p ratio of only one element of their diet is kind of irrelevant. I think I saw their calcium content is 0.8 which is along the lines of most of the other brands of pellet (the ss grain free pellet is 0.6).

Pellets being such a small part of the diet, provided they are kept limited to just one tablespoon per pig, no matter what matter which pellet you choose. Grain free are recommended but burgess are fine to feed. I have heard burgess have good balance of nutrients. I personally feed Haybox...