Burgess Excel Blackcurrent and Oregano - Thoughts?

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I love Burgess Excel Guinea Pig nuggets. My poor boy: Ralph is a tad sensitive. He chokes easy, plus he's a bit weak chested, so once he starts coughing, he finds it hard to stop, I swapped from Muesli-style mix to Burgess and he's stopped choking on his food.
But that's not my point.

I had to do a nugget run yesterday, they had no normal Burgess nuggets, and the Blackcurrent ones caught my eye, so I grabbed them, since I've always wanted to try them.

They're alot smaller than the normal ones, they smell pretty weird, too.
My boys seem to adore them, though.

I read the back of the packet, making sure they could be used as normal food but it didn't really say that they could or couldn't.
I wanted to check with you guys if they can be used just like normal nuggets or if they're meant to compliment the normal ones?

I heard somewhere before, when I first heard of them, that they're meant to be complimentary but I didn't know if they meant in general. Like to their diet of hay and veg or if they meant as in: To compliment their normal nuggets.

I got a little confused.
Am I doing it right by giving them the blackcurrent ones as I would normal nuggets.
A bowl in the morning and a bowl in the evening.
 
Pretty sure they can be used as a normal nugget would. My girls love them, they get them in a mix with some other nuggets but these are definately their fave.
 
Have just checked the website and it calls the normal ones complimentary too so it must just mean in addition to hay etc.
 
Like the others have said I take it they are complimentary to a diet including veg and hay.

Roger loves it I mix it with ordinary excel and science select.
 
Thank you for the quick replies :)

I think I panic too much but I just don't want to give my boys too much of something that they should only have every now and then.
I can't help but worry about them :)) One day they might drive me mad, though!
 
my boys have these they really like them, they used to be on a museli mix and i found it easier to wean them on to pellets with these, but have to order them from local pet shop (its 4.99 for 2kg bag from a little pet shop in Colne, but where i used to live it cost 5.99 for the same, some shops dearer than that) so worth asking round as prices differ, only word of warning is that if you dont mix them with the normal nuggets you will be a piggy slave like me off ordering them for the rest of their lives.....rolleyes
 
MommaPiggy said:
Thank you for the quick replies :)

I think I panic too much but I just don't want to give my boys too much of something that they should only have every now and then.
I can't help but worry about them :)) One day they might drive me mad, though!
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You mean they haven't driven you mad yet! :))
 
They are 3.99 from vetuk I get mine when I get my hay as posting is 4.99 but it all works out cheaper... :)).
 
piggiepaws said:
my boys have these they really like them, they used to be on a museli mix and i found it easier to wean them on to pellets with these, but have to order them from local pet shop (its 4.99 for 2kg bag from a little pet shop in Colne, but where i used to live it cost 5.99 for the same, some shops dearer than that) so worth asking round as prices differ, only word of warning is that if you dont mix them with the normal nuggets you will be a piggy slave like me off ordering them for the rest of their lives.....rolleyes
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I too order these especially for my piggies, they love them but I mix with the regular flavour for them so they can chose which they eat, all pellets go.

your supplier is very reasonable - I pay £5.99 per bag
 
I got mine as a free sample. The piggies loved them and would painstakingly pick them out and eat them first. I usually just mix a handful with their usual mix. Don't want to spoil them too much :)):))
 
I just picked these up today for my girls, i will give them a whirl and see how they get on they sound yummy lol! i only put small sprinkle of them with their usual nuggets and will do it over a course of a month, i didnt want to change over too quick incase it upsets their tums. i also got them the excell timothy hay with marigold and dandelion in it and huh! mine are fusspots too thought they might go mad over the flowery hay not much excitement there 8...
they loved the fine green beans i got in for them though! (ha and hubby thought they were for our dinner not a chance lol)
 
mine got these when I got a freebie but being a mean mum I only gave them in a separate small hamster bowl which I use for herbs etc.. they enjoyed them and the trial pack lasted a good while :)) I wouldn't buy more as they are so expensive and don't seem to be anybetter than the original and mine will eat both normal excel and p@h nuggets happily! (if an offer some on though would buy some to mix in as a treat!
 
i use these nuggets as they have a nicer smell and more flavour than normal nuggets, I use two feed bowls one with these nuggets in and a museli mix in the other, the girls seem to like it ALOT better than normal nuggets, but next time I will buy normal to give them variation.
 
Mine have the blackcurrant excel, the normal excel and the science selective all mixed in together. This was in case I couldn't get one of them at any point and they would already be used to one of the other pellets. Well, the normal excel gets thrown out of the bowl in disgust. The science selective gets left by all 6 and will only be eaten if the blackcurrant ones have gone, and then only under protest, but the blackcurrant ones are polished off in a shot. Part of me wonders whether it is more to do with the size and shape than the taste. However at the moment they have 4 kilos of mixed pellets to work through and then I will be only buying the fancy ones that my little food critics will eat. In the end I will be saving money due to the lack of waste. I soooooo wanted them to like the science selective though :(
 
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