Burgess Excel - increased drinking?

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After three failed attempts in the past, Whiskey's recent health problems and the consequential advice from All About The Animals has led me back to trying Burgess Excel.

Now I don't know if my pigs are just fed up of truly crap food, but I am delighted to say as soon as they were given a few 'moons' they all went 'WHOOOSSSH!' to the bowl and nommed it all!

Since being on it however, and in Honey's case when we were on the pets at home pellets too, some of them seem to be drinking a fair bit more. They have always been on meusli before I embarked into complete feeds recently.

So can pellet foods cause piggies to drink more at first?
 
Doeylicious said:
After three failed attempts in the past, Whiskey's recent health problems and the consequential advice from All About The Animals has led me back to trying Burgess Excel.

Now I don't know if my pigs are just fed up of truly crap food, but I am delighted to say as soon as they were given a few 'moons' they all went 'WHOOOSSSH!' to the bowl and nommed it all!

Since being on it however, and in Honey's case when we were on the pets at home pellets too, some of them seem to be drinking a fair bit more. They have always been on meusli before I embarked into complete feeds recently.

So can pellet foods cause piggies to drink more at first?
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Three of my now 5 pigs I've noticed (who all eat burgess excel) will eat a pellet, chew it up, sip some water...take another pellet, chew it up, sip some water...

Dunno if that helps, but I imagine it to be like eating a packet of digestive biscuits without a cup of coffee! It could also be that they're eating the dry food in larger quantities per sitting, and therefore needing more water?
 
Hey hey :)

Our boars have only ever been on pellets and not meusli so I can't help precisely but I'm just thinking about it logically. Since the meuslis are made up of various bits of dried food, maybe it's the transition to pellets which is making them drink more relatively speaking.

One of our two drinks quite a bit more than the other. What I've noticed very often when they drink is that they immediately start chewing on their back teeth. I've never given it much thought but it could be pellets, rather than hay, that they keep in their mouths when they do this. Maybe they couldn't do this with the meusli so much so they're doing it more now...

Apart from that, I don't really see why pellets would make them drink more. It could just be that they're not used to them yet and they're drying their little mouths out at first.
 
Amanda1801 said:
Three of my now 5 pigs I've noticed (who all eat burgess excel) will eat a pellet, chew it up, sip some water...take another pellet, chew it up, sip some water...

Dunno if that helps, but I imagine it to be like eating a packet of digestive biscuits without a cup of coffee! It could also be that they're eating the dry food in larger quantities per sitting, and therefore needing more water?
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My Terry does this!
 
My boys have pellets and I noticed Ludwig drinks a lot mroe than he used to. Gilbert still drinks about the same amount though so I guess it can depend on the guinea pig.

Maybe some just prefer a bit more drink after their dry food :)
 
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