Best Guinea-pig Pellets In The Uk?

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If you look in the supermarket in the cabbage section where they also have kale you should see spring greens, they are fairly cheap around 75p a bag for two stalks. Never feed frozen always fresh vegetables. Beans are dwarf beans again available in all super markets again fairly cheap 50p a bag in asda. Lidl sells fresh green beans as seen them in there :)

Mine have celery daily, cucumber, peppers and spring greens or lettuce mix (not iceberg). They then have a alternate mixture of carrots, beetroot, parsnip, turnip, green beans, broccoli, baby corn, sweet corn and leaves when in season, pea pods, sugar snaps peas, kale, herbs, fruit (twice a week alternate between tomatoes, apple, orange, pear, berries melon they have more frequently). Key is moderation with some items :)
 
helen105281 said:
I don't feed it at all but I think it should be no more than once or twice a week. Parsley is also very high in calcium. I feed spring greens daily but only a small amount, they also have coriander, cucumber, pepper, green beans and celery. I am very wary of high levels of calcium as I have had pigs with stones. The coriander they have in the morning and the greens at night.
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I feed very similar - savoy cabbage, coriander, cucumber, pepper, dwarf green beans and celery. I have also had piggies with calcium issues and I really don't want that to happen again.

I'm surprised that so many people feed unlimited dried food. I feed very little. It's one thing feeding unlimited hay, but if the pigs are eating quite a lot of dried food, they aren't going to eat so much hay.
 
So do people think that having fed my piggies kale everyday at least twice if not 3x for the past 3 months will predispose them to calcium issues?

I bought some spring greens today (thou a little more expensive than kale at £1.20 but u get 40g more) and celery so will see how they go with the new diet. They seem to have not cleaned up the greens unlike the kale but do like the celery.

I am wondering whether these spring greens are sold all year round or just in spring? lol

You have got a point about the dry food. Sometimes I notice that my piggies barely touch the hay for at least a day but I noticed that the dry food I have has different pellets, some green and brown like hay nuggets (I imagine grass and hay) so they are getting hay in some form.
 
If I were going to make a change, the first thing I'd do would be to try to reduce the dried food down and increase the hay eating. If you replenish the hay regularly you might find they are more interested in it (piggies love the novelty of new hay!), but if they are stuffed with dried food, they still won't eat much.

Good luck!
 
My baby group get two bowls of burgess nuggets every day but my older group only get two cupfuls every 3 days.They get cucumber ,pepper, celery ,greens ,green beans then occasionally apple, carrot, parsley, tomatoe and sweet corn .Never had any problems with cucumbr
 
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