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I do not give our pigs or buns shop bought treats. I would rather give them fruit and veg. My question is Who gives their pets shop bought treats and which brands are actually safe and are REALLY natural.

A bag of unopened shop bought treats came with 6 guineas and 2 buns on thursday, i had thought about raffling them off as i myself wouldnt give them to the gang. Obviously i wouldnt sell them on/raffle them off if i knew they were unhealthy.

The packets do not state a sugar content.

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This is one of the packs

Some are from the supreme range and others are claiming to be completly natural.

If these are ok, i will sort out some sort of raffle/comp when i have a some time to organise it

Thanks
 
From the pic they look like they would have lots of artificial colours in them.
I give mine shop bought treats occasionally but only the things that look natural like meadow mix herbs and things from 'naturals' ranges.
 
those do have honey or sugar i believe. Both honey and sugar are natural but fattening. These types of things are ok for an occasional treat. Mine may get them once / twice a year. Better things are the bag of loose herbs as they do not have any sugar added! Mine get the loose herbs every two / three days (only a small handful between two of them though)
 
those do have honey or sugar i believe. Both honey and sugar are natural but fattening. These types of things are ok for an occasional treat. Mine may get them once / twice a year. Better things are the bag of loose herbs as they do not have any sugar added! Mine get the loose herbs every two / three days (only a small handful between two of them though)
 
My two won't touch any shop bought treats, except one german brand that appears to be all natural, and is a box of coloured sticks. Unfortunately all my local pet shops gradually stopped stocking them and now I haven't seen any for months. Still it suits me that they don't want any of the nasty sugary stuff or the expensive processed veg things, they're far more happy with a carrot or a cob of corn dropped in their pen :(|)
 
The only treat sold commercially that I can say is "good" (read: not junk) for pigs, are dried herbs. This does include the Excel Nature Sticks, which consist of dried herbs and vegetables parchment.

In my eyes, the best way to treat pigs is with grass, but also hay. So many different types and varieties, and so many ways to provide the hay. Huge hay mountains, hay racks, toilet roll tubes, paper bags..........
 
popcorn paradise said:
i dont think many of you understood my post... i DONT feed them this stuff. rolleyes

Thanks anyway
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I noted you didn't feed yours these treats but were asking if anyone did & if they did you would raffle them if they were deemed healthy by people who had/did feed them :)

I personally don't buy treats of this kind. I have, in the past, bought green oat grass with dandelion, dried herb sticks & the packets of meadow herbs. :)
 
I've never seen those before but, saying that, when I'm in pet shops I don't tend to take any notice of the brightly coloured treats. These days I only ever buy the stuff which looks very unappetising to us humans i.e. dried herbs/flowers etc.

My Yossi loves the Excel Nature Snacks Laura mentioned, with dried nettles/dandelions (He hasn't tried the mint ones but will next time.) In my house these are known as "special cigars", because of how they look! :)
 
haha yes my lot get them somtimes. The ciggy ones. I shall do as planned and chuck out these other ones, it doesnt overly bother me that I'm chucking them i just wanted to make sure that nobody else could make use of them first.

:)
 
I tend to avoid them - with 12 piggies treats are expensive!

They haven't been bothered about them any time we have tried them - they prefer their fresh stuff. They're very fond of cardboard boxes and scrunched up papers too :))
 
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