Gerty Guinea Pig - Members Reviews

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Hi Thanks i know They need more hay than Gerty but i put hay in his hay rack and he does`nt eat it, when i first bought the cage from p@h you got a free starter pack with it in that there was some hay which he seemed to like when it had all gone i thought i would buy a good brand one so i bought the timothy hay with marigolds & dandelions which he ate at first but now he does`nt seem to bother with it, i`m i buying the wrong sort ? please any advice
 
littlepiggy said:
Hi Thanks i know They need more hay than Gerty but i put hay in his hay rack and he does`nt eat it, when i first bought the cage from p@h you got a free starter pack with it in that there was some hay which he seemed to like when it had all gone i thought i would buy a good brand one so i bought the timothy hay with marigolds & dandelions which he ate at first but now he does`nt seem to bother with it, i`m i buying the wrong sort ? please any advice
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Steer clear of the P@H hay if he doesn't like it. Most of it is brown, dry and dusty. Try getting a hold of some meadow hay with long strands - have a good sniff of it yourself. Decent hay should smell quite sweet and pleasant, not musty and stale. If he still is fussy then try him on something greener like Readigrass or Oxbow Timothy (both are a good bit more expensive than regular grass hay) - you can get them from http://thistlecavies.tripod.com/shop/id2.html

He absolutely must have hay in some form and it's rare for a pig to refuse it.
 
Gerty gets no stars, I tried mine on it for a while and they just threw bits of it on the floor and peed on it, nuf said!
 
My pigs eat everything in Gerty except the bright green round bits. I tried Cavia complete too but they refuse to eat it >:(
 
I feed my three guineapigs gerty, What would you recomend would be a better choice? i've tried another make but they wouldnt even touch it
 
Wagg Guinea Pig Crunch is much the same things without the colourings.
 
Wagg is the one they wouldnt touch..ended up feeding it to the wild birds. after throwin it on the garden.. Awkward little piggies! ::)
 
lol, I'm feeding their Cavia complete to my gerbils, the gerbils like it.
 
i'll try the tesco one, but my three are so fussy! i doubt they'll even look at it!
 
I was using Gerty until I saw these reviews, switched to the Tesco purple bag with no problems - the boys love it and eat more of it than they did the Gerty.
 
My pigs have been reared on this ;D ;D
Though they do leave the brown pellets :-\ :-\
lol ph well
they seem to tuck into it a dinner time :smitten:
so
****stars
 
jyrenze said:
Has anyone ever tried out the carrot and cranberry Gerty Guinea Pig? It is said to have no artificial colors and all that

http://www.russelrabbit.com/food.php

Its the one in dark blue packaging
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It's alfalfa based which is not suitable for pigs over the age of 6 months (too much calcium - can cause bladder stones). Wouldn't buy it any more than regular Gerty - they eat all the junk and leave the few bits that are good for them.
 
Oh ic... thanks for the input.
My pigs are still only 2 months+ though, so maybe I can feed them the "no coloring" gerty until they get older?

Also in your opinion, if there isnt much of a choice of pellets here in petstores besides gerty and kaytee(not very good either as I heard)... is it better not to feed pellets at all and just feed hay, grass, fruits and vege?
 
jyrenze said:
Oh ic... thanks for the input.
My pigs are still only 2 months+ though, so maybe I can feed them the "no coloring" gerty until they get older?

Also in your opinion, if there isnt much of a choice of pellets here in petstores besides gerty and kaytee(not very good either as I heard)... is it better not to feed pellets at all and just feed hay, grass, fruits and vege?
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A HAFF (hay and fresh foods) diet is a challenge to get exactly right and not really something I have experience of. Where are you located?
 
Malaysia :) We have many commercial brands of guinea pig pellets imported by the pet stores(Hagen, Sluis, Kaytee, Living World,Supreme, Prestige etc), but nothing really good like Oxbow or even Mazuri, and most online petshops do not shipp here or they do ship but the postage is insane. I bought a brand called Cavia complete by Versele Laga for my piggies but they are not too keen on it, so I mix it with the Gerty for them. Getting hay is not a problem though, although pricey.
 
jyrenze said:
Malaysia :) We have many commercial brands of guinea pig pellets imported by the pet stores(Hagen, Sluis, Kaytee, Living World,Supreme, Prestige etc), but nothing really good like Oxbow or even Mazuri, and most online petshops do not shipp here or they do ship but the postage is insane. I bought a brand called Cavia complete by Versele Laga for my piggies but they are not too keen on it, so I mix it with the Gerty for them. Getting hay is not a problem though, although pricey.
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If you can get Supreme products see if you can get a hold of Science Selective, that's a pretty decent pellet food.
 
yes, I just asked about it, its not sold in petshops but they can order it from the supplier, but its 58 bucks per 2 kilo bag, which is a rather horrifying amount considering that gerty only costs 36 bucks for 2 kilos after store discounts. Wonder why the vast difference in price here... 58 bucks can feed me for almost a whole week, lol.... I'll have to try and source for any other good brands
 
This food seems to be the only type shops near me stock but it's not that great. Mine and my friends guinea pig always leaves the long brown bits and the seedy bits. Why make a food with all these different bits in if guinea pigs don't like all of them? What are the brown bits made of to make them dislike them anyway?
 
Hannah Jones said:
This food seems to be the only type shops near me stock but it's not that great. Mine and my friends guinea pig always leaves the long brown bits and the seedy bits. Why make a food with all these different bits in if guinea pigs don't like all of them? What are the brown bits made of to make them dislike them anyway?
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The brown bits are all the decent stuff - the fibre and most of the vitamins/minerals. Naturally, the piggies go for the gassy, tasty stuff over what's good for them (the flaked peas and maize).
 
Lots of guineas eat the whole lot = that's why they make it. If I were you I'd try ordering soemthing different from the Internet as Gerty has many bad reports and is apparently not all that good for guineas.
 
Have had my pigs on gerty and also optimum but i find they selectively eat the gerty food and have now gone onto guinea pig crunch by wagg and they love this!
 
my boys will either get Wagg or gerty guinea...it depends.

Morrisons does Wagg but usually when i go there wanting bedding they have Wagg and no bedding i went there yesterday for Wagg and there is bedding :tickedoff:

so i ended up going to the local *crap* pets store and getting gerty but the way the boys eat they'll be back on Wagg in 2 weeks
 
Even though I have used them all nearly by now, the fav for my piggies has always been the Gerty food, you all say its got bad chemicals in it, I guess having known that I would have not used it. But I have had a piggy live till she was a grand age of 9! its only recently I had one die of a heart attack at a 1,1/2 old, and before that the youngest was 5 years. I am think I will have another go with the nuggets, they are fussy no matter what I feed them! And like most of you say they love their daily greens the most, my sows loves cucumber soooo much! ;D
 
we currently use gerty but will be gradually changing to pets at home pellets
until we find something better,

4 stars ****
 
I have kept guinea pigs since I was around five years old, and have probably had between thirty and forty over time, not including my current gang of twenty five. 95% of those guinea pigs were in optimum health - the worst any of them ever had was mites! They lived to ripe old ages and we never had any health problems. Having had so many guinea pigs eating Gerty, I find it hard to believe that it could cause health problems - mine never had any. Selective feeding can be a problem, but can be sorted by not replacing food until the guinea pigs have emptied their dishes! I only recently stopped using it because it became so expensive and I have so many hungry mouths to feed. The only let-down is it's price. I'm grateful to this food - my own piggies did well on it!
4 stars - ****
 
Gerty guinea pig mix

:)I fed this to my guineas when i first had them, and didn't realise it had nasty colourings and other unhealthy ingredients.
They only picked out certain parts and left the rest.
I now feed Oxbow cavy Cuisine,which is great nutritionally,and they eat it all up.
No stars.
 
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