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Genee M.

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What are you feeding your Guinea pigs other than hay and pellets. And how often? My snowball baby is getting thin slightly. I'm not sure if the older 2 are just hogging the food and not sharing or what. I might put snowball alone for a bit so she can be able to eat
 
Are you feeding them veggies too?
 
My piggies get fed twice a day, and we have a food dish for each piggy strategically placed to minimise stealing, or we scatter feed veggies on the floor amongst the hay.
As @sport_billy says veggies are essential, much more important than pellets, and if you can hand feed some of the veggies you can make sure each piggy gets their share.
Hay is the most important food, and tipping a big pile of hay on the floor with some chopped veggies and salad leaves mixed in is the best way to encourage sharing and natural foraging behaviours!
My piggies usually get a slice of cucumber and a slice of red pepper and some sort of leaves (baby leaf salad, coriander, spinach, parsley, romaine or little gem lettuce) each daily, chopped up if its bigger pieces so no pig hogs all the veggies! They also get beansprouts once a week and either carrot or babycorn slices as a treat. We feed very few pellets- about 12 pellets per piggy per feed, which is about 5g per piggy per day, and a few times a week we skip the breakfast pellets and dont bother with dishes and just have hay and leaves or herbs in a big pile on the floor!
 
PigglePuggle said:
My piggies get fed twice a day, and we have a food dish for each piggy strategically placed to minimise stealing, or we scatter feed veggies on the floor amongst the hay.
As @sport_billy says veggies are essential, much more important than pellets, and if you can hand feed some of the veggies you can make sure each piggy gets their share.
Hay is the most important food, and tipping a big pile of hay on the floor with some chopped veggies and salad leaves mixed in is the best way to encourage sharing and natural foraging behaviours!
My piggies usually get a slice of cucumber and a slice of red pepper and some sort of leaves (baby leaf salad, coriander, spinach, parsley, romaine or little gem lettuce) each daily, chopped up if its bigger pieces so no pig hogs all the veggies! They also get beansprouts once a week and either carrot or babycorn slices as a treat. We feed very few pellets- about 12 pellets per piggy per feed, which is about 5g per piggy per day, and a few times a week we skip the breakfast pellets and dont bother with dishes and just have hay and leaves or herbs in a big pile on the floor!
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Why did my own tummy start rumbling when I read that!? 😂😂😂
 
Please have a read through the feeding guide I have linked below. The piggies will get a slice of pepper, cucumber, green bean, celery, coriander and a lettuce leaf. I don’t always have everything in but like to make sure I at least have peppers and cucumber.

Are you weighing them weekly? How much has she lost if any? And are there three bowls etc?
 
I hand feed them their veggies so that I know what they are both getting. If I don't do this then the young one who gets full quicker eats a small portion and then the older one who eats anything and everything comes along and finishes it off so Lola cant come back and eat it when she is hungry for it because its gone. Since I started doing this Lola has gained weight and is looking very healthy now.
 
I feed my guineas in the morning a head of romaine lettuce a bell pepper and depending on the day we might add a tomato then the next day we switch out the pepper for a carrot and the tomatoe for a cucumber and the romaine lettuce will be a different lettuce. That gets split between 2 big bowls for the Guineas to share they do not steal food from each other we also have pellets and hay and feed them again at night after our kids go to bed
 
Be careful not to feed carrots and tomatoes too often. Carrots are high in sugar so should be an occasional treat (same goes for fruits). Tomatoes are acidic and can lead to sores on the mouth (same for acidic fruits). Coriander and pepper can be fed daily as a good source of vitamin c.

How are you handling the pellets? The other girls shouldn’t have constant access but I think mum should...
 
For us they get a carrot once a week and tomatoe once every other week cucumber every other day and bell pepper I give daily today my wife gave the older ones a basil plant
 
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