Gerty Guinea Pig - Members Reviews

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Well, sorry to see all the negative posts.
I use Gerty Guinea Pig Supreme and have done so for the past 5 years. Honey & Ginger were on this food and lived to just over 5 years and my newbies Izzy & Pip have been changed to it and Barnie is nearly there with it.
They are only selective if you give them too much. If you only give them half of their daily amount in the morning they clear it all up but if you let them have the whole lot in one go then they are selective as that's what piggies do! I considered changing to Wagg but as my dear Honey & Ginger had excelled on it, I thought it was a good recommendation. Hope this helps. :)
 
I stopped giving my piggies Gerty about 7 or 8 years ago when the CCT suggested a possible link between diabetes, urinary infections/stones and Gerty. They recommended Russel Rabbit Carrot & Leek Gourmet, which doesn't have artificial colourings. The Pet Rodent Centre in South Wales also recommends that and it's what they feed them when boarding there. It doesn't contain vitamin C, but my boys get loads of high vitamin C veggies and have never had any problems. I'm a bit worried because I seem to be having more trouble finding it in the usual stockists, but I've emailed Supreme for advice on other stockists. Anyone else had any experience of this one?
 
I think that Gerty Guinea Pig food is bad.
My 7 guinea pigs nip pick at it, the small babies had difficulty eating most of it.
The colouring is bad for them.
The food bits are too hard and sharp.

I give it;
0 stars.

-Rose.
 
I have mixed feelings on this one.

I worry about the colouring, and selective feeding, and do think the pellets are the best as each individual pellet has a balanced nutritional content.

I have 14 guinea pigs, and 13 of those are happy with the PAH pellets - its the only pellets I can bulk buy locally - comes in 10kg bags.

But Punky won't eat the PAH pellets, or any other brand of pellets, or any other brand of muesli, and i have tried everything! He's a fragile wee man, and usually weighs around 800grams. Vets tests showed his liver and pancreas don't work properly, and his eyesight is poor. So he needs all the help he can get to keep healthy. And he loves Gerty. His weight drops very quickly if I run out, or try to switch him over to anything else.

He is in a run with other piggies, so i mix the Gerty in 50:50 with the pellets. Punky carefully picks all the Gerty out, the other piggies are more then happy to munch on everything else.
 
i am surprised that so many people don't like gerty guinea. i have always used it and still do. i have been using it for at least 10 years and have never had any problems with it. :)
 
I am just trying to wean Dizzy off Gertie's - third attempt. Her previous owner had her on it for three years.

She's five now and getting stiff with arthritis. I think she could profit from balanced pellet food. I had to put up a mineral wheel, as she feeds too selectively. So far she's still holding off... To make sure she's not losing any more weight and going short on nutrients I'm giving her a pinch of avipro.
 
Very good, but don't feed your guinea pigs the free plastic watch that comes with the packs! I accidentally did that and couldn't calm down all day because the strap disappeared into the deep dark pits of a piggie stomach. But otherwise, they like it. Oh, and the resealable packs has a guinea pig exactly like Pepper on the front -- all the more reason to like it!
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(no, that was not a cuss)
 
our 2 pigs eat Gerty and they appear to love it. they're large sharing bowl needs refilling every 2-3 days although they always seem to leave the brown pellets - they dont like those, maybe cos it looks like piggy poo?! :)
 
If your guinea pig is leaving out bits of a muesli diet it's probably a good idea that you should change the type of muesli or feed less (about 1/8th of a cup per pig). This will prevent selective feeding and ensure that your pig is getting all of the nutrients advertised on the packaging.
 
I used Gerty for about 10 years, and all my guineas loved it. I stopped buying it because of the price, it's twice the price of some of the other foods I've seen. It's since then that I've heard about the connections with health problems which is worrying.

I'm still struggling to find another food that all of mine like....
 
Mine were on Gerty and liked it (although they always left the brown long pellets that were in the mix). After reading this thread I did not realise it has additives/colourings, and so now ive moved on to burgess excel nuggets and that way they cant just pick out what they want and they seem to really like them and there is less waste! so happy faces all round :-)
 
Our girls love this food and its much more interesting than plain pellets! i sometimes mix some in though as i have three different kinds of food ATM! as diddnt know which was best...
 
Its a `NO NO` for Gerty. Too many colourings, sugar and seeds which can choke piggies. I spoke to the `Head` man at the factory and all I got was `woffle and more Woffle`.

He said he would send out a new product. Thinking it was a completely different product I gave him my address but all he sent was the same stuff with different articifial flavours and yet more `permitted` colourings. It was more or less a bag of the same stuff. I couldn`t believe it. Its all binned.

Anders,
 
Hi, my 5 weeks old babys are on gerty guinea, but they tend to leave loads of it..i dont know what else to try? Is there any one out there who guinea eat the whole lot and dont just pick certain bits out? Lin
 
"I think its a great food because i have tried it and my pigs looks to be delighted"

****(4 stars)

;)
 
I was given a big bag of Gertie carrot and cranberry in my starter pack from Hollybush garden centre. Since my pigs were from P@H I bought a bag of their nuggets because the pigs were used to this. After a few weeks I tried using Gertie as a topper, because of all the different bits in it. For a few days they ate most of it, now they just shove it to one side and eat the nuggets underneath it. Those big orange things never get eaten, always strewn around the hutch.

I give it 0 stars
 
I used Gertie for many years and didn't take on board the additives! And yes all of my piggies picked out the bits they liked the best leaving lots of waste.

Everyones eating Excel blackcurrent and oregano nuggets now. There is no waste, natural nutrition and no risk re additives.

0 out of 10
 
Linny pop said:
Hi, my 5 weeks old babys are on gerty guinea, but they tend to leave loads of it..i dont know what else to try? Is there any one out there who guinea eat the whole lot and dont just pick certain bits out? Lin
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Ours used to leave a lot of it, too. Also, the last time we ordered it there were worms that turned into moths and infested the whole house!:... Took us a lot of moth balls stench and efforts and a month later we didn't get rid of it still.

Our guinea pigs usually don't leave any Burgess Excell nuggets:
http://www.burgesspetcare.co.uk/pro...guinea-pig-with-blackcurrant-and-oregano.html

http://www.burgesspetcare.co.uk/products/guinea-pig/burgess-excel---guinea-pig.html
 
Piggyologist said:
Ours used to leave a lot of it, too. Also, the last time we ordered it there were worms that turned into moths and infested the whole house!:... Took us a lot of moth balls stench and efforts and a month later we didn't get rid of it still.

Our guinea pigs usually don't leave any Burgess Excell nuggets:
http://www.burgesspetcare.co.uk/pro...guinea-pig-with-blackcurrant-and-oregano.html

http://www.burgesspetcare.co.uk/products/guinea-pig/burgess-excel---guinea-pig.html
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my piggy also loves that food too :)
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I never buy Gerty now, I think it's a bit of a waste as mine never ate all of the bits. I brought it when I first got my guineas and mixxed it with some burgess nuggetts, as they where used to musli. Now they tend to stick to Burgess nuggets & blackcurrent and oregano nuggets.

* 1 star
 
I feed mine Gerty and generally they eat the stalky bits of hay and tip their bowl over much more often then when they get Wagg.

I never knew it had colours in either! I will stop feeding it too them- it is easier to get Wagg (supermarket) too.
 
Nil points & a health warning should be on the packet! :( This stuff may cause neurological problems & urinary problems in piggies, so I won't risk using it ever again after having two piggies die fairly young when I used to use it, both females had recurring bouts of cystitis & stones. I was also told by the CCT that feeding it to piggies may give a false positive reading for diabetes.

Since then I have used Wagg as it is colourant free, & have had no further problems, touch wood :)
 
Encourages selective feeding, not a patch on nuggets.
* ( 1 star )
 
AHHH OMG! I had no idea about any of the bad things about this food apart from selective feeding! Mine are eating it right now...

My Arni has had cysitis on and off for ages now, I bet it is this or least not helping! :(

I've tried switching them to nuggets before because of Chuck only eating the seeds due to teeth problems. Need to try again! How are colours alound in food? They really don't need them! Feel a bit pee'd off now.
 
I first bought this for my girls and they hardly ate any! They just pick little bits out. I cannot get them to eat nuggets no matter how hard I try but they have pets at home musli. I would love to see what people think of that.

No stars from me.
 
Whilst I don't feed this now, preferring the Burgess Blackcurrant and Oregano and the Wagg Optimum, I did feed it to the very first guinea pigs we owned. They had Gerty throughout the whole of their life and all the piggies lived til they were nearly 7 and most of them never had a days illness.
 
My piggies LOVE this the gobble it all up as soon as it's put in their bowl, I mix it with GP nuggets from PAH (but am looking for another source to buy them from after reading about PAH on this forum).

***** 5 STARS!
 
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