Low Calcium Pellets

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Hello All,

I've noticed sort of white liquid in the pig palace now I have fleece rather than wood shavings. Doing my research my guess is too much calcium, especially as they loved kale. We've cut out the kale now though and other things that are too high in calcium. There main veg is round lettuce (Tesco) and cucumber + a few other bits and bobs from time to time.

My research went on to pellets. I use PEH GP Pellets and they eat them quite happily. I note that they have 0.8% calcium which seems a little high. Can anyone recommend any lower calcium pellets? Oxbow seems to have 0.85%.

At this stage I don't think it is too serious as they wee alot and there are only one or two white wee's.

Porkie and Pie are both 1 year old girls.

thanks for any advice given.
 
Lowest calcium pellets are Vetcare Multimodal and J R Farms Grainless at 0.5%. The Bunny Guinea Pig Meadowfeast is next lowest at 0.6% and also has much more natural ingredients. It is also worth filtering your water if you don't already and are in a hard water area. I feed the Bunny ones and have no calcium spots on the fleece.
 
Thank you very much for this. Its a good idea with the water filter. I do love in a hard area.
 
Our little Roy has recently overcome was was a calcium build up and was peeing blood. 'Sludge' the vet said which was causing inflammation of his bladder lining. We've completely changed his diet to low calcium water (duchy originals - royal deeside water as filtering may not soften the water from calcium) and the multimodal pellets sticks. He loves them and we haven't had any more blood. Changing to low cal veggies was also vital.
 
I filter my water too as it is super hard. So much that every 6 months we buy a new kettle as the scale build up is horrendous. The only thing that I would like to ask is by filtering water are we adding calcium as when you look at bottled mineral water it has calcium in it. The same minerals are used in some water filters? @helen105281
 
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Lowest calcium pellets are Vetcare Multimodal and J R Farms Grainless at 0.5%. The Bunny Guinea Pig Meadowfeast is next lowest at 0.6% and also has much more natural ingredients. It is also worth filtering your water if you don't already and are in a hard water area. I feed the Bunny ones and have no calcium spots on the fleece.
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Helen, would I be able to give my guinea pigs these bunny ones?
 
Yes I would think so, either these or the Vitakraft ones. Mine have both on a kind of rotation. Yours don't have any at the moment do they? Was it just Gilbert with the bladder issues? You could start with just a few a day. Maybe run it past the person who advised you to go pelletless first though?
 
We’ve kept with the PAH pellets as they seem to be eating the right amount, along with their hay and veggies. The cloudy wee is now no longer a problem. They ate a leaf or two of curly kale last week and noticed a cloudy puddle soon after. So we think that as long as we keep them off the kale and other high calcium veg then they should be ok.



Thanks to all here who have commented and I wish you and your pigs joy and painless peeing!
 
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