Gerty Guinea Pig - Members Reviews

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0 stars for Gerty mix as it encourages selective feeding and not very healthy IMHO

I prefer Burgess Super Guinea Excel Nuggets as its less fattening and has exact nutrition for piggies recommended by vets by a company Burgess who care for guinea pigs - ive been using this for many years
 
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Hmmm... well, when I got my girls I had to ween them off Gerty's so I can tell you I bit!

2 Stars- Gerty's is a food the piggies love, but for a bad reason- it's a bit like McDonalds! Yummy, but not particularly healthy. It encourages selective feeding (though my gals are such pigs they eat everything in the end!) and it's artificially colored. :{
 
I think i'm definitely keeping my two off Gerty now, i've just read through this whole post and had no idea about the colourings in the food! Although I had wondered about the brightness of some of the yellow pieces in there.
I put my little trio onto it because Snowy (RIP) decided he didn't like the nuggets after a year of eating them perfectly (typical male!).
I put them onto Gerty and they went mad for it and now my current two girls still love it.

They do completely clear their bowls and always seem keen for more so i will give Gerty
*** (3 stars) - was going to be more but after reading this thread...it looks like time for a change.
 
1/5
Marked down for artificial colourings mostly, then being a muesli mix that encourages selective feeding my own piggies wont eat this either.
 
I use Gerty all the time and our 3 guineas will happily eat it where as other makes have just be ignored .
Yes they have their favourite bits (don't we all ?) and yes I'm often left with the seeds at the bottom but I'm happy to bin those when I refill the food bowl .
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Sorry Nil from My two....

they pick out all the coloured bit and eat them least good bits, not that theres many of the other stuff... mixed it all it with current food.. alfalfa or something I use now, they love it :)
 
I think this food is good. My pigs love it! And they eat everything in the bowl.
**** ( 4 stars )
 
Gerty does contain artificial colourings & is NOT recommended by the Cambs Cavy Trust for that very reason :(
 
Just got through a big bag of Gerty I would not feed it again too brightly coloured made them fussy was dusty and they didn't like it often throwing it all around the hutch. Now got them on Harrington's and all is well again.
 
As an aside, this seems to be our longest running thread - 8 years and counting.
 
I give my pigs timothy pellets, but put a tiny bit of Gerties on top as a treat. They won't touch any of the other treats that are out there for piggies, and they eat pellets and get lots of veggies, so I figure the small amount of Gerties should be ok.
 
"Gerty Guinea Pig food encourages the guinea pigs to take up picky eating. I always put my guinea pigs on nuggets as it gives them the nutrition they need and they love it!"

0 stars
 
We usually buy pellets in bulk I have 6 pigs 2 were only 2 months old but fit at fiddles! We ran out before the order came in and purchased this food! A few days later my two youngest pigs were dead! The only thing we did differently with them around the time was the food! Vet said they looked healthy well fed etc and she did not no the cause I'm convinced it's this! There little bodies couldn't take it. Never will use this again!
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I used to feed this but after research, realised it was bad for the guinea pigs. It contains pee flakes (fattening), seeds which aren't supposed to be eaten by guinea pigs and artificial flavourings and colours. Also, the pellets and nuggets which make up some of the mixture contain alfalfa which isn't supposed to be given to adult guinea pigs. They enjoyed some parts of it but now i only feed them pea flakes from the mix occasionally as treats.

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