Silly to be concerned but can't help it!

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claire8234

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Hi everyone

My two boys Carrot & Daisy - (named by my daughter) rolleyes are 9months now and have always been outside in a large two storey hutch.

I keep them on newspaper, ecopet bed and hay. I got huge bales of hay from a local animal feed supplier and never had any problems with it.

They have a hay rack on the front of the door and it never seemed to get eaten from but I would replace it regardless assuming that they had so much hay in their hutch they must be eating some of it.

As they are coming indoors in a couple of weeks I didn't get another bale of hay when the last one rang out but just a small bag of meadow hay and then a small bag of the timothy hay with herbage.

I put the timothy hay in every morning and by the evening its gone. I then started to worry that they hadn't been eating enough hay!

They are happy healthy pigs so this sudden emptying of the hay rack is probably just because they like the new stuff and am hoping I am just being a worry wart!

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Are you worrying that they are not eating enough hay? As long as their is always plenty and they never run out I am sure they are getting enough.
 
I think its just because they have gone from not eating any that I have ever seen (the hay in their rack went untouched) to devouring the entire contents now I have started giving timothy hay!

Like you said they always had tonnes of hay in their hutch so they were never deprived, its probably that they prefer the new stuff.

They can hear the bag being opened 6ft away :))
 
Haha, i expect your right! Ive found now my boys have a hay tray, they never eat out of the rack unless i put reedi grass in it. *rolls eyes* So now they just have the tray and a hay ball. Refilled every day ofcourse.
 
Connie said:
Haha, i expect your right! Ive found now my boys have a hay tray, they never eat out of the rack unless i put reedi grass in it. *rolls eyes* So now they just have the tray and a hay ball. Refilled every day ofcourse.
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Readigrass in a hay rack? Doesn't it all fall through? :))
 
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