I fed my guinea pigs ice burg lettuce.

Beemz said:
Just make sure they wash their hands straight after.

Thinking about pellets- pellets were only first used to fatten up rabbits and guinea pigs for meat. A lot of people don’t use them and the emphasis should definitely be on good quality hay over anything else.
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People eat guinea pigs? :hmm:
 
Yes, in South America- they are kept there like we keep chickens. Traditionally a newly married couple in Peru would be given a boar and two sows to start a herd.
 
I’ve just looked wild harvest up online and it looks to be a muesli style mix - is it different coloured pieces?
If it is, then those kinds of foods are not recommended. They should have an all in one pellet type of food such as burgess, oxbow pellets, science selective, Harrington’s (to name a few).
Also, a cup and a half of it sounds like too much. My pigs get one tablepsoon each of pellets once a day.
 
Piggies&buns said:
I’ve just looked wild harvest up online and it looks to be a muesli style mix - is it different coloured pieces?
If it is, then those kinds of foods are not recommended. They should have an all in one pellet type of food such as burgess, oxbow pellets, science selective, Harrington’s (to name a few).
Also, a cup and a half of it sounds like too much. My pigs get one tablepsoon each of pellets once a day.
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Piggies&buns said:
I’ve just looked wild harvest up online and it looks to be a muesli style mix - is it different coloured pieces?
If it is, then those kinds of foods are not recommended. They should have an all in one pellet type of food such as burgess, oxbow pellets, science selective, Harrington’s (to name a few).
Also, a cup and a half of it sounds like too much. My pigs get one tablepsoon each of pellets once a day.
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Piggies&buns said:
I’ve just looked wild harvest up online and it looks to be a muesli style mix - is it different coloured pieces?
If it is, then those kinds of foods are not recommended. They should have an all in one pellet type of food such as burgess, oxbow pellets, science selective, Harrington’s (to name a few).
Also, a cup and a half of it sounds like too much. My pigs get one tablepsoon each of pellets once a day.
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yes its multi colored. and i just followed the instructions on the back. So do you think by me over feeding them that mix it could be a cause of there diarrhea?
 
Piggies&buns said:
I’ve just looked wild harvest up online and it looks to be a muesli style mix - is it different coloured pieces?
If it is, then those kinds of foods are not recommended. They should have an all in one pellet type of food such as burgess, oxbow pellets, science selective, Harrington’s (to name a few).
Also, a cup and a half of it sounds like too much. My pigs get one tablepsoon each of pellets once a day.
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I will write the brands you gave me down and go to the pet store tomorow. Thanks for the advice.
 
I don’t know whether that mix could be the cause but I’d certainly look to change to a pellet food anyway and then feed the pellets sparingly.
 
I believe that @Seven7 gives Finn and Lara Oxbow pellets so those are available in the US. I give my 5 piggies 4 small handfuls of Harringtons pellets each day.
 
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My Finn and Lara get Oxbow pellets. I am in US but someone told me they saw Oxbow pellet sold in the store in UK.
I give small amount of Oxbow pellets everyday along with their three servings of veggies.

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i<3piggys said:
thats so sad :(
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Just a different culture- I suppose it’s not much different to the people who eat rabbit, especially in Spain or all the homesteaders in the US that farm rabbits for meat- actually UK included.
I think traditionally it was a good protein source especially high up in the Andes where the soil was too poor to support livestock.
 
Beemz said:
Just a different culture- I suppose it’s not much different to the people who eat rabbit, especially in Spain or all the homesteaders in the US that farm rabbits for meat- actually UK included.
I think traditionally it was a good protein source especially high up in the Andes where the soil was too poor to support livestock.
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When I worked at a vet college in the USA I knew some vets from Peru whose families traditionally farmed guinea pigs and llamas... they were brilliant piggy and llama vets because if its your family's only source of wool and protein you need to be I guess! Personally I'm as veggie as my piggies are but if it wasn't for domestication by traditional farmers in south america we wouldnt have any pet piggies at all...
 
thanks to everyone for all the advise. they are still doing good hopefully thats the end of it but I'm still gonna watch them and definitely watch what i feed them from here on out >
 
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