Day Five, Piggies Getting More Adventurous As To Their Dining Preferences.

[Patches16]

My girls have been with me a few days. They are settling in, will not run and hide anymore when I show up, and will let me pat their heads and backs. They love dark greens, Romaine and Kale especially and actually like a small cube of water melon apiece with the rind. They also got a seedless grape each, a slice of strawberry each and a slice of red bell pepper. I also put in a handful of timothy hay. Went in to peek in on them, fresh food bowl is pretty much close to empty and they have eaten half a bowl of fortified guinea pig pellets. These girls were eating a crappy diet ( I got them from Petco) They were Feeding Browns Tropical Carnival and my girls are sure being stubborn about switching over to a more plain but higher quality pellet without all the seed, dried fruit and dyes. Just decreasing old a bit each day, replacing with new. Same way I switched my poor elderly cagebound parrot when I adopted him over and taught him how fun it was to come out of that rotten cage and explore. May he rest in peace, had that boy for 22 years.

 

[VickiA]

All sounds to be going well. I am introducing new veg to a new piggy of mine and she treats it very suspiciously! Water melon is always a favourite with mine, too. No evidence in the cage of any skin so they eat it all.

Please just be aware that certain veg such as kale have a high calcium content and can lead to bladder stones if fed regularly in high quantities.