Advice Sought From Burgess Excel Users

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I feed 12 pellets a day. 6 am/6pm.

The boys are very good on it. I have seen the diff since they have been on it...with behaviour and physical signs. Skin.ect.

It lasts because of the amount you feed.

I have just been checking Burgess and all their flavors of nuggets have molasses unfortunately.

Like I say more Bunny is pricey but it's top quality and worth it.

All it is is plants and flowers,grasses from south America.

@helen105281 advised me on this and also feeds it. Glad she gave me the heads up.
 
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Hmm I've just looked at the ingredients list on my bag of mint nuggets and it doesn't say molasses anywhere. Unless molasses goes under different names sometimes?
 
"Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) also sometimes called oligofructose or oligofructan, are oligosaccharide fructans, used as an alternative sweetener. FOS exhibits sweetness levels between 30 and 50 percent of sugar in commercially prepared syrups".

That's also in Burgess..sweetners.

I'm not ob dictating what people should feed as I take into account money,diff situations etc,but personally I prefer Bunny due to it's all natural ingredients :)

Best thing I ever done.
 
Julie M said:
That's actually quite bad. As it doesn't say "molasses" on the bag.
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Does it not? When I did feed it i never paid attention. Only found out from research on net. I changed the boys over before Xmas. Just bought a new bag about a month ago. So one bag lasts around 3 months. :) if you don't overfeed that is.
 
@GloriousGuineaGirl How confusing, the ingredients you linked are actually different to the one on the bag. The bag says this:

Composition: Grass, Wheat, Soya Bean Hulls, Oat Feed, Hi Pro Soya, Lucerne, Yeast, Sugar Beet Pulp, Mint (1.25%), Soya Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Salt, Ligno-Cellulose, Short Chain Fructooligosaccharides 0.25%, Minerals.

It doesn't say molasses anywhere, the ingredients are arranged differently, and some of them don't even match up. :hmm:

Even without molasses, it still has added sugar and oats, which are not healthy. I will definitely be switching.
 
Ruby Inferno said:
@GloriousGuineaGirl How confusing, the ingredients you linked are actually different to the one on the bag. The bag says this:

Composition: Grass, Wheat, Soya Bean Hulls, Oat Feed, Hi Pro Soya, Lucerne, Yeast, Sugar Beet Pulp, Mint (1.25%), Soya Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Salt, Ligno-Cellulose, Short Chain Fructooligosaccharides 0.25%, Minerals.

It doesn't say molasses anywhere, the ingredients are arranged differently, and some of them don't even match up. :hmm:

Even without molasses, it still has added sugar and oats, which are not healthy. I will definitely be switching.
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Yes.. I've just been looking.

It is very confusing. I am going to email Burgess :)
 
I will because customers have the right not to be misled!

I mean alot of people have fed this with no problems but..personally my boys in my eyes deserve natural esp as their skin is sensitive.
 
Quite right, I can't stand it when companies mislead customers for their own benefit at the expense of the piggies' health! I don't think they would sell the nuggets if they were really detrimental to piggies' health, but just because they're on the shelves doesn't mean they're necessarily good for your piggies.

Piggies deserve the best food you can afford/get ahold of, in my opinion. :)
 
@GloriousGuineaGirl I emailed Zooplus before & again recently. They are still refusing to ship to OZ, so no Bunny & no Vitakraft. The only imported nuggets we could get here was Oxbow & just now Burgess has turned up. Even Oxbow has molasses. It seems to be what most companies use to stick the ingredients together to form a nugget. But if you looked at what passes for out home-grown nuggets you'd think Oxbow & Burgess are piggy manna from heaven!

I'm onto an Aussie one sold only online through Guinea Pigs Australia.Try9ng to get the ingredients from the manufacturer MOMI but heir only contact is an online enquiry form which is not workjoing at the moment. Have emailed GPA to ask the ingredients. I buy stuff from them so they shoudl hopefully comply.

In the meantime I am syringing my 2 fusspots with children's liquid vitamin D until I decide what to do. Really it is the only reason they need a commercial feed as they all contain vit D3 supplements. My boys are able to have grass year round so that plus vegies & hay & an Oxbow chewable vit C tablet daily is sufficient for their diet. But it is way too hot 9 months of the year to have them exposed to sunlight for 1 hour 3 times per week so they get their vit D. I have been feeding them redoak lettuce every morning as it is the only non-animal source of vit D but my vet thinks there's not enough in it to supply all their vit D needs.
 
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