Pigs wont chew on toys

[JenniPigi]

I've bought my two girls lots of wooden chew toys in the past, all safe woods with no dyes, and I've given them cardboard tubes, but they just ignore them. They love to chew plastic and gnaw on any plastic they can find, I'm pretty sure they eat it as well. I don't give them access to plastic anymore because of how much they've eaten. I worry about their teeth but have never found any safe toys they like to gnaw. Any suggestions?

 

[Ramia]

Unlimited hay will wear down the teeth. Most guineas don't like toys.

 

[Roselina]

@Ramia is right most piggies don’t like toys
My two do like to chew cardboard tubes/ boxes
I get samples of hay and leave it in the small boxes for them to chew as well and I stuff hay inside the tubes
They will chew wicker balls
They like a paper bag filled with hay and a bit of forage
They chew apple/ pear branches
They like a mini hay bale sometimes
I dont buy the gimmicky toys anymore and it was a waste of money and the piggies ignored them
Good luck

 

[Truffolo]

@Ramia is right most piggies don’t like toys
My two do like to chew cardboard tubes/ boxes
I get samples of hay and leave it in the small boxes for them to chew as well and I stuff hay inside the tubes
They will chew wicker balls
They like a paper bag filled with hay and a bit of forage
They chew apple/ pear branches
They like a mini hay bale sometimes
I dont buy the gimmicky toys anymore and it was a waste of money and the piggies ignored them
Good luck

The big chewers are gerbils and degu, they are industrial chewers, but they can eat insects and grains. Guinea pigs can only eat hay and veg, so that's all they need to keep their teeth worn as they eat or graze all the time, unlike gerbils who eat, sleep and then run around making burrows with nesting material and hoarding grain for later.

 

[Piggies&buns]

I completely agree with the others - most toys are ignored. I don’t ever buy any commercial toy for mine.
Gnawing on toys does not properly wear their teeth anyway. The only thing that wears their teeth is chewing hay and grass - it’s the silica in those which do that work. Chewing hay and grass evenly with the molars, wears their molars properly. In turn the correct action of chewing with the molars keeps the self-sharpening incisors in check.