Lilly
Adult Guinea Pig
We don't have any really decent Aussie made commercial guinea pig food. The only imported stuff until recently was Oxbow. Donny & Mason are on Oxbow Organics pellets & love them.
Hazelnut & Peanut Butter have never liked anything by Oxbow & I didn't want to feed them the awful stuff that passes for commercial guinea pig food over here. So, I used to feed them on a muesli from a local animal feed miller (meadow hay chaff, cracked lupins, pony pellets, workhorse mix) so at least the stuff was fresh & nutritious. About the same time as Peanut Butter fell ill the miller went out of business! Having been on this food for years neither Hazelnut or Peanut Butter would take to anything else I tried. As PB was losing weight due to illness & now turning up his nose at all everything I ended up making my own muesli by sourcing the ingredients in their original mix at the produce shop. They are eating it fine but most of the stuff comes in 20kg bags. So I have to store, mix & throw much of it out before it can all be eaten by 2 piggies.
Now suddenly I can get Burgess Excel from an online shop. Both the blackcurrant oregano & mint kind. From the ingredients list it sounds properly nutritious. What I'd like to know from others who use this product is do your piggies like it and which one do they prefer? I really want to try a bag & see if the 2 fusspots will eat any of it but not sure which one I should go for first.
Hazelnut & Peanut Butter have never liked anything by Oxbow & I didn't want to feed them the awful stuff that passes for commercial guinea pig food over here. So, I used to feed them on a muesli from a local animal feed miller (meadow hay chaff, cracked lupins, pony pellets, workhorse mix) so at least the stuff was fresh & nutritious. About the same time as Peanut Butter fell ill the miller went out of business! Having been on this food for years neither Hazelnut or Peanut Butter would take to anything else I tried. As PB was losing weight due to illness & now turning up his nose at all everything I ended up making my own muesli by sourcing the ingredients in their original mix at the produce shop. They are eating it fine but most of the stuff comes in 20kg bags. So I have to store, mix & throw much of it out before it can all be eaten by 2 piggies.
Now suddenly I can get Burgess Excel from an online shop. Both the blackcurrant oregano & mint kind. From the ingredients list it sounds properly nutritious. What I'd like to know from others who use this product is do your piggies like it and which one do they prefer? I really want to try a bag & see if the 2 fusspots will eat any of it but not sure which one I should go for first.