Pea flakes, oats,dried herbage, apple…

[Ruth1]

….. as I discover things that guineapigs relish, I feel I’m in danger of spoiling them - they’rejustsoooocuteiwanttogivethemEVERYTHING!!

Could you tell me your ‘treat regieme’ please, before I need to get the prying board just to extract them from their pen

At the min it’s hay on tap, wherever they choose to sit
Two table spoons of Burges between them
Each - a cos lettuce leaf
Thick ring of cucumber
Strip of bell pepper
A few slices of celary

Creeping in - a cm square apple every few days
a daily pinch oats
Dried forage leaves every few days
And I’ve just ordered their first pea flakes

What do u feed over and above what they require?

Thanks - I think you had all warned me that they would take over!

 

[Siikibam]

I would cut back on the apple to once a week at most. I also wouldn’t give the oats, even a pinch. That’s usually reserved for ill piggies who need a little helping hand gaining weight.

When I have forage in, mine will get a mix maybe 2-3 times a week. I have a big bag of pea flakes that’s hardly been touched. They get 1-2 when I remember…which is rarely so maybe 3 times a year. They’ve had carrot 3 times so far this year. And apple maybe twice. They’ve had cabbage (small strips) 3 times over the last few months - I have a cabbage plant outside. And they had a bit of kale recently because I had some in. Apart from that they don’t get these treats very often. They’re happy with the lush green hay and I keep it that way.

Since they’ve been outside I’ve cut back on treats actually. Not that I was giving them regularly before but it was more.

 

[Piggies&buns]

Mine don’t get treats as such - their veg and forage is their treat.
Hay constantly obviously.
Coriander, Lettuce, Cucumber and pepper every day. Other things will be added in if I’ve got them in the fridge, I grow a lot of herbs (mint, basil, fennel) in the garden so I’ll harvest those for them, but otherwise it’s just those basic four veg.
Pellets are given three times a week and they get a little under a tablespoon each. A mixture of dried forage from piggie parcels every day.
They are on grass daily in summer. Fresh forages when I raid my mum’s garden!
Fruit or carrot doesnt feature - they did get one blueberry each last week but that’ll most likely be all they get for the year

 

[Ruth1]

Thanks - I thought I was in danger of getting carried away!

Normal feeding shall resume and no extras! (Maybe a pea flake on a Saturday for weighing and brushing!)

Must…. Not ….. succumb …… to ……. Piggy ….. voodoo…..

 

[AidaB]

Good luck, our 2 have convinced my OH that they need a peaflake every night before bed!

Thanks - I thought I was in danger of getting carried away!

Normal feeding shall resume and no extras! (Maybe a pea flake on a Saturday for weighing and brushing!)

Must…. Not ….. succumb …… to ……. Piggy ….. voodoo…..

 

[weepweeps]

They are very sneaky at getting us to give them what they want.

My two don’t get fruit. They get 3 pea flakes in the evening. They get maybe 15 nuggets a day and forage every couple of days. Grass every couple of days. I buy nice hay so they mainly have that.

You must resist. Lol.

 

[Siikibam]

You have to resist. When we had just the boys, their cage was the other side of thr wall dividing the kitchen and dining (open plan so the fridge was less than a stones throw away). My husband used to think they were constantly hungry because they (I’m looking at you Toffee) would wheek when the fridge opened and Fudge would join in with begging. He used to give in but I had to be strong and tell him to stop.

They will wind you round their finger and act starved. You just have to know they’re fine if they have plenty of (fresh) hay in their cage.

 

[PigglePuggle]

Mine get treats on sundays in the playpen but they have to work for them/forage for them- a sprinkle of oats in the hay, a slice of apple chopped very small or the tops off strawberries hidden in the hay or a a paper bag or eggbox they have to spend ages figuring out how to open- but they dont get pellets on sundays after that, just a slice of cucumber or pepper for dinner.

I never just pop high calorie treats in their mouths unless they are having yucky medicine like antibiotics!

 

[Siikibam]

Mine get treats on sundays in the playpen but they have to work for them/forage for them- a sprinkle of oats in the hay, a slice of apple chopped very small or the tops off strawberries hidden in the hay or a a paper bag or eggbox they have to spend ages figuring out how to open- but they dont get pellets on sundays after that, just a slice of cucumber or pepper for dinner.

I never just pop high calorie treats in their mouths unless they are having yucky medicine like antibiotics!

I like your method of making them work for it.

 

[Ruth1]

Mine get treats on sundays in the playpen but they have to work for them/forage for them- a sprinkle of oats in the hay, a slice of apple chopped very small or the tops off strawberries hidden in the hay or a a paper bag or eggbox they have to spend ages figuring out how to open- but they dont get pellets on sundays after that, just a slice of cucumber or pepper for dinner.

I never just pop high calorie treats in their mouths unless they are having yucky medicine like antibiotics!

Good ideas there!

 

[PigglePuggle]

Here's the newlyweds Hatty and Ollie opening lift-the-flaps puzzle boxes for treats- they have 4 different boxes or paper bags to figure out, each contains 2 strawberry tops, 3 cucumber chunks and a sprinkle of chopped coriander- takes at least an hour of effort and fun to find all the food!

Hatty is a natural at this just like Ollie, though she did briefly get stuck in an eggbox on her first go

 

[Siikibam]

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Here's the newlyweds Hatty and Ollie opening lift-the-flaps puzzle boxes for treats- they have 4 different boxes or paper bags to figure out, each contains 2 strawberry tops, 3 cucumber chunks and a sprinkle of chopped coriander- takes at least an hour of effort and fun to find all the food!

Hatty is a natural at this just like Ollie, though she did briefly get stuck in an eggbox on her first go

Such clever piggies. They look good together.

 

[Tnoz]

My 9 are absolutely starved every day, they get nothing according to the wheeks ,climbing bars ,chewing bars and standing tall, they will make you feel really guilty for walking past and not giving them something lol I can’t chop anything or rustle a bag without getting a chorus

 

[Siikibam]

My 9 are absolutely starved every day, they get nothing according to the wheeks ,climbing bars ,chewing bars and standing tall, they will make you feel really guilty for walking past and not giving them something lol I can’t chop anything or rustle a bag without getting a chorus

I can eat crisps in peace now. But when the doors are open in the summer, Toffee likes to remind us that they’re all still there… love them dearly

 

[Princess Dustmop]

Ours get a pinch of hay or some of their premeasured pellets to stave off starvation when they beg ... If they beg something else out of us (hard to deprive them if we're making a salad or green beans or something they get regularly), it gets deducted from their dinner that evening.

 

[Merab]

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Here's the newlyweds Hatty and Ollie opening lift-the-flaps puzzle boxes for treats- they have 4 different boxes or paper bags to figure out, each contains 2 strawberry tops, 3 cucumber chunks and a sprinkle of chopped coriander- takes at least an hour of effort and fun to find all the food!

Hatty is a natural at this just like Ollie, though she did briefly get stuck in an eggbox on her first go

They look such a cute couple

 

[Merab]

Mine get 3 pea flakes in the evening if I remember, so about 3 - 4 times a week.
A hay basket of forage goes in when the cage is cleaned and occasionally an extra handful between cleans.

Priscilla thinks a chunk of cucumber is the best treat ever while Micah’s idea of a treat is a red leaf or a green bean.

 

[PigglePuggle]

They look such a cute couple

Thank you Heather, its odd they've only been a couple for a week, and quite an uncertain couple to start with! I've just left them in peace to get on with getting to know each other and they are much more friendly now, Hatty loves hay and Ollie's new thing is dressing up as a haystack then leaping out at her and she eats his hay costume

 

[Siikibam]

Thank you Heather, its odd they've only been a couple for a week, and quite an uncertain couple to start with! I've just left them in peace to get on with getting to know each other and they are much more friendly now, Hatty loves hay and Ollie's new thing is dressing up as a haystack then leaping out at her and she eats his hay costume

Sounds like a marriage made in piggyville.

 

[Ruth1]

Thank you Heather, its odd they've only been a couple for a week, and quite an uncertain couple to start with! I've just left them in peace to get on with getting to know each other and they are much more friendly now, Hatty loves hay and Ollie's new thing is dressing up as a haystack then leaping out at her and she eats his hay costume

It’s lovely to see them happy together xx