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Mine love it two.
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It's soooo cute the way they eat! :smitten: :smitten:
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They aren't supposed to eat cornflakes or anything like that it will do them more harm than good. All they need is fresh fruit and veg, hay and pellets. I also feed mine grass and that is their treat. :)
 
Cornflakes and most cereals of that kind have too much sugar and salt in them for piggies. I would not give them on a regular basis - maybe as a treat occasionally (I know candyfloss isnt good for me either yet I sometimes have it). But definitely not as a permanent part of their diet.
 
mine only really ever have cornflakes if we are running out of there normal mixed food, and need to go to the shops the next day to get some more.
 
I sometimes run out of mix and get it the next day but dried mix is only 5% of the food they need so they won't miss it for half a day. :)

My motto is if they don't get it in the wild they don't get it at all. I know fruit and veggies are not common in the wild for them but its the best we can do with domisticated pigs. I have visions of pigs going in Morissons buying chocolate and all things bad for them! ;D
 
our piggies sometimes share our breakfast, louise you would not have liked petal and rosie then bless them 0:) 0:) 0:) they would have my weetbix and milk and have weetbix all around their mouths :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: and they would love icecream too. i know now that it is bad for them but petal lived to 5 years and 3 months (august 2004) and rosie 6 years and 21 days (june 2005)how we miss them :'( :'( :'(, they were more people than piggies. O0 zoe and jessie would get about 3 cornfalkes a month same as faline the bunny. zoe, jessie and faline don't get mix as was told it was nothing but rubbish, full of it. so i don't know. :-\ :-\ :-\
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rosie was the ginger and white one and petal was the cuddle black one :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: love them holding paws. this was taken in july 1999 the first day we got them, seems like yesterday. :-* :-* :-*
 
only lois out of my 6 will eat conflakes i had some for breakfast the other day and took her a few to eat lol she only gets them like 1-2 times a year though lol

does anyone know if they can eat weetabix? i know my hamsters used to love them but ive never tried it will my piggies i never knew if they could or not.
 
I wouldn't have thought cornflakes or any other cereal would be very good for piggies - all my pets get only food that are meant for animals! As for treats - they get only natural treats.
 
I use to feed my rabbit cornflakes for the last couple of months of his life. This was only because he was really old, ill therefore went off his food and would only eat cornflakes. RIP 0:) I haven't gave any to my girls though
 
SunshineAndTwinkle said:
My motto is if they don't get it in the wild they don't get it at all. I know fruit and veggies are not common in the wild for them but its the best we can do with domisticated pigs. I have visions of pigs going in Morissons buying chocolate and all things bad for them! ;D
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I agree with you S&T - I had a little Sheltie who would pinch my strawberry jelly and any yoghurt she could get her paws on! I now know much better and only feed natural stuff.
 
I don't think weetabix would harm them, buts its not good. I used to feed my hamster weetabix, and cornflakes and cheerios, as a treat a long with many other things he wasn't supposed to have.
 
;D My hamster's and gerbils also have lots of things they're not allowed as a occasional treat. These include cornflakes, rice krispies, peanuts, cereal bars and cheese ;D
 
our hammy loved those small bone shaped dog biscuits the first thing he would take out of his food dish and run off to hide it in his little store bit lol he used to like monkey nuts too, and the very occasional piece of carrot/apple and tiny piece of cabbage poor lil guy had to watch me taking big handfuls of veg past his cage to the guineas! sadly he died though he was a sweet lil hammy :smitten:
 
awwwww....cute pici's. I have a sheet of paper what has all the types of food that guineapigs can eat. It has weetbix and cornflakes on it. I have only ever given my piggies cornflakes once. and weetbix once. I use it as a treat....
 
I`m always amazed at the way Piggy's and hamsters are so different in their personalities. Piggy's are nervous and run at the site of a hand. Its not that they don't like you - its just instinct and its a `built in survival radar`.

Hammys on the other hand are so layed back and slow moving its a wonder they ever survived all these thousands of years out in the Syrian desert.

I think the Syrian hamster is extinct in the wild now.

Anyway, I`m getting off the point of the thread - about cornflakes. I have never fed mine them but might give it as a small treat every so often - that's if they like cornflakes.
 
SunshineAndTwinkle said:
They aren't supposed to eat cornflakes or anything like that it will do them more harm than good. All they need is fresh fruit and veg, hay and pellets. I also feed mine grass and that is their treat. :)
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What she said.

Just because they like them doesn't mean you should give it to them, even as a treat. One of my pigs has a sweet tooth and would eat a bar of dairy milk given half a chance, but it doesn't mean I feed her it occasionally!
 
I don't feed them either although when I had a pet house rabbit in the past I had one help herself to a rice krispy out of my bowl (no milk) 98) but that's different.
 
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