Bad box of hay

Lavinia, before using the Vale Bale Meadow Hay were your guinea pigs eating meadow hay anyway? I just did an interesting hay test - and I picked fairly for the volunteers, as I picked fussy groups and eat anything groups to test. I had samples of hard Timothy, soft Timothy, mixed and Meadow hay - the fussy ones refused the whole lot, and only nibbled at the Timothy when I refused to feed them anything else until they did. The eat anything group, (which are boars of course) ate all the Timothy but even they wouldn't touch the meadow hay.
I've just cleaned them out, and as far as I can tell, no one touched the meadow hay at all! So has anyone got fusspots who refused meadow hay before but like Vale Bale? I think I might have to see if they will send me a little test box!
 
Bluebell said:
Lavinia, before using the Vale Bale Meadow Hay were your guinea pigs eating meadow hay anyway? I just did an interesting hay test - and I picked fairly for the volunteers, as I picked fussy groups and eat anything groups to test. I had samples of hard Timothy, soft Timothy, mixed and Meadow hay - the fussy ones refused the whole lot, and only nibbled at the Timothy when I refused to feed them anything else until they did. The eat anything group, (which are boars of course) ate all the Timothy but even they wouldn't touch the meadow hay.
I've just cleaned them out, and as far as I can tell, no one touched the meadow hay at all! So has anyone got fusspots who refused meadow hay before but like Vale Bale? I think I might have to see if they will send me a little test box!
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I’d probably say that if yours won’t eat other meadow hay’s then they still might not eat Vale bale meadow hay? I don’t think I have particularly fussy pigs, they do like how long and easy it is to make tunnels out of and when I’ve had bad batches of meadow from other places they have turned their noses up at it.

If you want I could send you some for your pigs to try?
 
Thanks, that's a kind offer! Honestly, I don't normally let my animals get fussy! The odd thing is that the guineas eat anything I give them, with the marked exception of some of these bagged pet hays. From the price an owner feels they are buying the best, but not going on my animals reactions! They used to get given whatever the horses were eating during the winter, and I don't remember them ever turning their noses up at it!

That link for the hay goes to a pet food place that actually has some very competitive prices for dog food/ cat food etc, so I'm going to try them out anyway. It is most interesting, (if not annoying) to see the huge difference in prices of the same food at different places, and that's only for UK made food as I don't buy any imported foods.







 
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