Do you have feeding times?

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I am horrible at being consistent with their twice daily salads. They always have fresh hay & 1/4th cup of pellets everyday. But if my daughter sleeps in (she's 18 months old), I sleep in. So sometimes they don't get their first salad until 11am!
I feed them 1 cup of salad & veggies twice a day.

Do you have specific feeding times? I need to get myself on a schedual!
 
It's no good me having a set time as I'm up early on weekdays but not at weekends... so they get fed twice a day but not at the same time, same with my dog! They always have plenty of hay to keep them going

Nice if you can have a regular time but it's not always possible. I have a routine (you have to have with this many pigs) but the start time is not always the same!

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Strict routines here. I am a sticklier for organisation haha! Probably because I am an only child and had too much time on my hands growing up!

but it's veggies at Noon and tops ups at 2:30pm I do top up as needed throughout the day.

I actually found i was wasting more veg with 2 servings of veg, they didn't eat it all so cut back to 1 serving of 7 different veggies a day. I just let them guide me really. :)
 
It's 6 am and 6 pm here on weekdays and whenever am and 6 pm weekends.
I have to say, at 6 am they're not that hungry and usually still asleep but at w/e they rush out as soon as they hear us down the stairs and if I go to the kitchen before th living room, there's revolution in the air! :)):)):))
 
mine get fed between 7.30am and 9.30am depending on if its the weekend or not.

my indoor pigs get fed twice a day but their second feed gets halved so they get fed at supper as well but its really whats left of their tea. they dont seem to leave as much this way

hope that makes sense
 
George gets nuggets in morning and fresh water (9.30 on weekday as I work a 10-6 shift then I get home at 6.30 set up his playpen & pop his veg in with him & top up hay about 6.45. The veg time is same on weekend as if I am home earlier I just do other things til 6.30 so he has some routine but maynot get fed nuggets til 11.30am! He doesn't seem to notice as always has nuggets & hay left over & most often comes & says hello when he hears me coming down the stairs! :)
 
mine like thier breakfast before 8am during the week there get breakfast around 7.30am and on sat but on sudnay its more nearer 8am when there get it

and there get tea anytimr between 5pm and 6.30pm depeinding on what I'm doing but there all are waiting for it like 4pm lol

this works for me and my pigs eveyone will feed thier pigs at diffrent time diffrent times
 
I don't have specific feeding times, because I am in uni different times every day, but I try to feed them vaguely around the same time as I feed myself!

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Late afternoon or tea time is the veggie and hay time for my lot.
Dried food always available and then tucked up again with more hay at night, especially if it is cold.
 
Breakfast: Veggies/dry food top up/hay top up at 6.30am - 9 am depending on shift.
Tea: Veggies 5pm - 6 pm
Supper: Hay top up 10 pm
During the day if I am in, extra bits of fruit eg piece of apple or melon as treats

I am not allowed to forget meal times, they raise the roof with the noise!
 
I am sitting here laughing over 'tea time'. Is that commonly said over there? So after Tea, comes "Supper"?

I had to laugh and call my mum.. (I am actually English, but I only lived there for a short time) but I don't ever recall my parents ever saying tea time or supper. Everytime is tea time for them, they drink 30 cups of tea a day.
The one thing I always thought was strange, is that my mum refers to when she was back in school sometimes and she said that they ate their "dinner" in school.
To me, dinner is at like 6pm. Not something you eat at schoo!

Off topic, but anyway, that's real cute. Gotta laugh :))
I am going to start giving my piggies lettuce for "tea time".. hehe
 
Mine have pellets and hay on constant supply and then veggie time is when i get home from work.

When they hear the key in the door they start wheeking like crazies. When my OH is visiting and working they dont bother him in the afternoon but start calling from hearing the door. He thinks its very funny
 
I give them some veggies in the morning, some in the afternoon or 4 - 5pm. Depending on when I have enough veggies/fruit in.
They also have a content supply of hay, water and pellets. If they are hungry and I can't get out to get some veggies
 
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My piggies have constant supply of pellets and hay throughout the day, topped up every morning.
Mealtimes are vaguely around the same time.
Veggies in the morning, usually around 8:30-10ish and then another veggie meal later on in the evening, 6-7ish.
 
Mine get fed twice a day no set routing, usually when the noise gets too much! though I draw the line at 2am
 
My Piggies Daily Routine:

8am. The gecko's light has switched on, Must wheek at the top of all our voices to wake the food provider.
8:10am. Bowls arrive, chew bars when bowl doesn't arrive fast enough. Munch through breakfast.
9:30am. Keeper comes up the stairs for some reason. Wheek loudly demanding hay and pellet top up.

Throughout the day: Wheek loudly everytime someone comes up the stairs in hope something tastier than hay or pellets is going to arrive.

7pm. Start wheeking for dinner. When dinner doesn't arrive in five mins, start running around madly and chewing bars and making the biggest racket possible just in case the food provider has forgotten to feed us.

8pm - 10pm. Floortime! RUn around eating skirting boards, carpet, papers, and any wires the food provider may have forgotten to hide away. When she hasn't left anything out, go for the slippers.

10pm. Hay top up. Settle down after a hard day of maintaining the food providers' routine.


:D My piggies have a *very* set routine...and the inflict it on the fosters. I'm sure when the piggies are adopted they inflict the routine on their new owners...
 
I give them 2 salads a day - crunchy stuff in the morning (peppers, cucumber, cherry tomatoes) and leafy stuff in the evening, but depending on my child care duties sometimes they don't get their breakfast until mid afternoon!
 
tallulah will not stop unless she has her brekkie when I'm awake. she always waits for me to return from the bathroom before making loads of noise.

and just before i go to work she gets a top up of hay and mix about 8am.

in the eve she gets some leefy treats and a small top up of mix.

all these animals sound spoiled!
 
I feed them at seven in the morning, and then they get snacks at around four, when they have out of cage time. I refill their hay whenever they need it and the same with their pellets. ^^
 
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