Hay - £16 for 5kg.

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You know, I'm lucky. The goblins are a lot of things, but they and I know exactly which hay they like. And at £16 I'm very grateful. I feel for anyone with fussy pigs or who doesn't know quite what hay they like because that would be a steep first time purchase. :no:
 
Yeah, I don't drive. But I do know they'll eat this hay, and I've no problem paying the money for it. But what if they didn't? It's a lot of money to buy a hay they might immediately turn their noses up at, or that they'll eat for two days before deciding it's poison or whatever.
 
I have paid an absolute fortune for hay over the last month. Mine usually have Hay Box Timothy and Natures Own Meadow but Red has stopped eating hay and we can't work out why. I have different types and makes of hay in every space in the house and shed now. He nibbles a little bit when you put in a new hay and I think yay, then he stops and turns away! I agree some hay is a stupid price, don't know how they justify it, you are just paying for the name.
 
There's one place that does organic hay, which is what the goblins arrived with, and they loved that - but it was organic, with the price tag to match, and that as in January. I dread to think what price it is now, it was horrendously expensive even then. The Happy Hay stuff has always been good though, I'm yet to have a bad box that I can remember. Cam chooses to nest in it occasionally (mate, WHY?!), I'm not sure what I'll do if they suddenly refuse to eat it.
Used to be easier when I could grab a bag of Burgess, but it's been years since I've had a bag that didn't immediately need tossed out. Comet and Blitzen would eat any hay you put in front of them, so at that point I could get away with Nature's Own, but the goblins just like to be awkward like that.

I'll pay £16 for 5kg, hell I'd pay more if I needed to, but I can't imagine the stress of trying to work out what hay they'd eat, if not for the goblins turning up with hay they went mad for I wouldn't have known either.
 
I've been looking at the Happy Hay hay and wondering, would he eat oat hay? It's expensive but cheaper than the impending vet bills if I can't get him to eat hay. The situation is becoming a bit desperate, we can't understand why he won't eat hay when he eats everything else. I tried him yesterday with a lump of very hard carrot and he demolished it, if it was his mouth that hurt surely he wouldn't be able to bite that carrot!
 
The goblins love the oat hay, it's probably the only one they'd happily sub the timothy for. It's a pity the treat bag (500g) is so expensive. Would it be worth grabbing one of the samplers? There's not much to each but there's an oat hay sample in it.
 
I am thinking the £20 box is a lot better value and with 6 piggies someone's bound to like it if Red doesn't. With all the vet visits I've had this month my credit card bills horrendous anyway, keep telling myself another £20 isn't going to make much difference! It's the postage I object to. I have a thing about it, I've got carts with stuff in with several companies at the moment, I go to check out, see the postage cost and don't do it.
 
It's free over £40, £3.50 under - but I'll say this for them, for all the "it'll take x days to deliver" I still get confused when I get downstairs at 9am the following day to find 10kg of hay on my doorstep, lol. They use DHL for shipping too so for the time being, the deliveries are unaffected by the postal strikes.
 
The struggle is real. Out of the 8 pigs I have only 2 will eat any hay that I give them (except the brown, musty smelling hay they came with). The rest have their own preferences and make it known by going on hay strike. Some prefer stalker hay, some prefer softer. Some prefer meadow, others like orchard and oat (which I mix in on occasion). I have found that they'll all somewhat happily eat haybox Timothy blend and leave very little waste. The prices of different hay is ridiculous though and unfortunately mine won't eat the 'cheap' hay. Fussy fluffy potatoes.
 
Mine only seem to be fussy when they are ill. This has happened to me several times when they start to refuse what they have eaten in the past. I like to have more than one type of hay and pellets on the go at a time.
Many years ago I had a cat who would only eat Whiskers (thanks RSPCA!) until they changed the recipe. Stubborn madam wouldn't eat my offerings for weeks, she wasn't starving so she must have gone out and caught her own! This taught me never to feed only one type of anything.
 
If I had the space to store other boxes I'd be trying different types...but so far they've only gladly eaten the expensive organic timothy, their current timothy from Happy Hay, and the oat hay from Happy Hay. I did give them the various samplers before and for most of them they just stared at me, as if to ask me what I thought I was doing, lol.

I've ordered samplers again with their new box of timothy ordered this morning, see if I have any luck with any of the others, but I doubt it. For what it's worth I think they'd eat any stalky timothy I could find for them, it doesn't have to be Happy Hay. But the Happy Hay stuff is great, so...
 
ive a cat that was a rescue,will only eat purina brand of food eg felix,i was bought some 11plus whiskas,its a fight to get her to eat it.so i understand fussy cats !i agree with giving guinea pigs a selection of different hays and pellets.now the guinea pigs do not like lidls peppers but will eat tescos peppers !greens one week are okay the next week are poison so we go on !
 
eileen said:
now the guinea pigs do not like lidls peppers but will eat tescos peppers !
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I'm sorry, that shouldn't make me laugh but I can imagine it all too well - there was a point where Comet hated everything, including spinach, unless you gave it to him stalk first, then he'd eat the whole thing. It wasn't til I tried him with thyme, desperate to get him to try anything, that he finally knocked that on the head.
 
Spike and Peanut would only eat most veg from M&S! How did they know I'd been to ASDA! These days I mostly grow my own or shop in Aldi and they can either eat it or go without. When they are ill it's different, then it becomes a task to find something they will eat that doesn't come in a syringe.
 
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