Help With A Hay Dodger!

[Joeykins]

Our little boy Bumble has been with us for a few weeks now and has settled in well, but we are having some food issues!

Bumble loves his veg, and is given a cupful daily, split between 2 servings, he also likes his pellets, and picks at forage and things like that, but he hardly eats any hay! I've given him a few different varieties of hay - a few different shop-bought meadow hays, a few different Timothy hays including Oxbow, and American Timothy etc, he will pick at it but hardly eats much of it - he has a hay tray in his cage along with a hay ball and a tube filed with hay, he has loads of access to hay, but hardly eats any of it.

I've had a look at his teeth, he is quite easy to handle and I've even checked his rear teeth as best I can, they are fine and he has a very healthy appetite (even when he has been very thoroughly fed already.......) in his former home he lived with other piggies in a traditional hutch and hay was provided but it was used more as a bedding and there wasn't a quantity given as feed.

Does anyone else have any experience of hay-dodging piggies? I know it needs to make up the bulk of his diet and I want him to be getting everything he needs

 

[piggyfan]

I do not know if this is any help but when I rescued my rabbit he had never been fed hay and would not eat it. I broke little pieces up and added it to his pellets which helped. I also left a pile of hay constantly by him. Eventually he started eating it and now loves hay.

 

[Flutterby]

I think it's just time a perseverance. Keep trying to different types of hay, always have it on offer etc. He'll come around!

 

[sindydoll]

Hi I've only had my piggies two weeks, but they are a bit like that I think they like the fresh stuff too much and I give them grass , well say no more, silly mummy , smart piggies!