Shaunthesheepypig2011
New Born Pup
I know you should feed them every day, but I'd like to know how many times a day. I'm thinking the same times we humans eat. Is that right?
How often should you feed a piggy?
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Guinea pigs need hay available to them constantly as it is their main food source so your priority is making sure they never run out of it.
How often you feed veg and pellets is then up to you.
You can give their one cup portion of veg and one tablespoon of pellets either once a day or split it in half and give half in the morning and half in the evening if you wish.
For mine their routine is:
Morning: hay
Midday: hay top up if needed
Evening: hay and veg portion
If it is a day they get pellets then they get them in the morning but I only give pellets twice a week.
Guinea pigs need hay available to them constantly as it is their main food source so your priority is making sure they never run out of it.
How often you feed veg and pellets is then up to you.
You can give their one cup portion of veg and one tablespoon of pellets either once a day or split it in half and give half in the morning and half in the evening if you wish.
For mine their routine is:
Morning: hay
Midday: hay top up if needed
Evening: hay and veg portion
If it is a day they get pellets then they get them in the morning but I only give pellets twice a week.
Betsy
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If it's up to the piggies it would be all day everyday! As it's not then I give mine a tablespoon of pellets each scatter fed every morning and veg (also scatter fed) in the afternoon between 4-5pm. In the evening just before I go to bed they have supper of pea flakes and diced dried apple (3 each) followed by a bowl of mixed forage from piggy parcels.
They've always got mountains of hay available and fresh water.
They've always got mountains of hay available and fresh water.
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Mine have an endless supply of hay to eat and play in.
They get a lettuce leaf each in the morning, a few herbs in the middle of the day, a pasta bowl of assorted veggies in the late afternoon and then in the evening before we go to bed they get a handful of oat hay or some forage.
As a piggy is an appetite covered with fur they will attempt to train you to feed them on demand - be strong!
If you successfully withstand all pleading please tell us how you do it
Welcome to the forum
They get a lettuce leaf each in the morning, a few herbs in the middle of the day, a pasta bowl of assorted veggies in the late afternoon and then in the evening before we go to bed they get a handful of oat hay or some forage.
As a piggy is an appetite covered with fur they will attempt to train you to feed them on demand - be strong!
If you successfully withstand all pleading please tell us how you do it
Welcome to the forum