How to get your pig to eat hay.

[Beautifulmess]

I've reasonly noticed, Mali doesn't really eat hay, his hay could sit in his hayrack for days and it'll never go down. He went to the vet 2 weeks ago due to having soft poop and was given probiotics which I gave him for a few days until better and whenever I see his poops soft and mashed into the bedding, I give him some more but tbh i think now he's just mushing them with his feet as the outside the bed ones are formed normal but he doesn't eat enough hay unless he's eating his bedding?

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[hellsbells82]

what hay do you use? Try one of the yummy herby/forage ones or mix in some dried bits with normal hay.

 

[flintstones]

Very possible hes eating his bedding, do you not watch him. Mine are always eating hard to miss.

 

[Beautifulmess]

I noticed he took a chew of a piece of hay from his rack today but barely anything. Yes I thought about the herbal hay stuff I used to give to Africa because it's all he would eat when he was unwell (he popcorned for the stuff). The bedding doesn't seem to go down a great deal, just trodden down. The vet thought dirty hay was his 'poop problem' cause but it's changed daily lol

 

[BellasMummy]

Can't get my girls to stop eating it, they are mad on hay. All I can suggest is getting some nice smelling Alfalfa hay or something similar to get him interested in it.

 

[Hanwombat]

Magic animal supplies do sample packs of hay you could try and see what wants he likes.

 

[Tommies Mam]

Mine will eat their bedding hay but Burgess Forage dried grass goes down a storm in this house. They get a handful each morning and it doesn't last 5 minutes