Tesco Guinea Food - Review

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Oh I might just get the purple bag instead then - that's about £3.19. I don't care what it costs as long as they enjoy it though but I can't seem to find one that they all like. I've tried the pellets like Supa guinea pig excel and they all hated that. I've tried the tesco purple and gerty guinea but they still leave a lot of it. I'm at a loss what to give them next.:{
 
mine also love tescos guinea pig food. they eat most of it up and only ever leave a very small amount
 
ive now gone onto the tesco value food after trying it last week my piggies couldnt get enough of it and a bag only lasted a week so ive been back today and bought another 3 bags :))
 
Tesco value food is the only dried food my gps have ever got excited about they hear the bag and come running noe before they would eat it eventually now its gone with in minutes!
 
tesco value food?!?!?! how much? andwhat size tesco do you get it from?
tallulah loves the tesco with added vc but if yours like value maybe i should try her out on that too?
 
My two boars were on the Tesco guinea pig food for ages, but I recently started using Wagg as there's a pet shop ust round the corner from my new house that stocks big bags for 2 pounds (god bless little family run businesses), and I've never seen the pigs so happy!

The second the bowl is put down in their cage they shove my hand out of the way to get at it!

No waste either, there were some bits of the Tesco food they just left lying, or flicked out of their hutch onto my carpet!

Isn't the Tesco Value food marketed as Guinea Pig and Rabbit food? I didn't buy it because I thought is sounded very generic and unbalanced, but that could be me being paranoid!
 
I've used tesco's (the purple bag) for few year now i think. pigs seems 2 like it, however, turn their noses up @ cheap stuff. They've been brought up well, hehe. I think that its quite good. But the big pellets *** seem 2 popular. Hope this helps. x
 
Thanks, i purchased some wagg and have been giving tallulah that every now and again. as like you say i can get it cheaply in huge bags too. its the primium nuggets i think.

she has had tesco for a few days now and so i thought id give the wagg a go again and she did the same. showed my hand out the way to get to it. despite gobbaling her leafy treats only a moment a go.
 
My hubby came home from Tesco's with the purple bag guinea food - he actually went for fish food flakes but for some reason got guinea pig food instead - poor fish!
We still had loads of the P@H nuggets left so I'm putting in a small amount of the tesco mixed with their usual to see what they think.
So far it's thumbs up they seem to be tucking in nicely :D
I'll update later!
 
Tesco food is made by Wagg, I am going to try this, mine currently have gerty guinea pig food.
 
i bought wagg guinea pig crunch yesterday from wilkies and my 5 love it they have been on p@h nuggets too but they are very expensive 4.10 for a 2kg bag wagg was £2.59 x
 
My boars started off on the tesco stuff, but a couple of batches seemed to be bland and dusty, so we went on to the wagg. they enjoy both, but have just gone back to the tesco stuff since the wagg was beginning to get bland for them. the tesco muesli seems to be better looking again.
I think they particularly like the grass and carroty bits in the tesco one.
 
Is the Tesco value stuff any good? i have just picked some up but notice it says its for rabbits too? thought they had different nutritional needs?
 
I just noticed that on this thread it says that tesco has no colouring etc but I looked at the ingrediants and they are the same as gerty. I was going to wean my boys off gerty onto tesco but the ingrediants are the same or am I missing something?
 
the Tesco value food has now changed to separate pig and rabbit food. I use it in an emergency, for when i cant get to pah. my boys dont like the value or the normal tesco food, theres always loads left over, they much prefer the pah nuggets. (apart from blackie, who will eat anything!)
 
ours have been on tesco purple bag for ages as they eat more of it than they did of the gerty guinea pig - also they are not very keen on the pellets though we still give them some each day so they get a variety

they have just munched a sprout for breakfast but everytime we leave the room they think its for food for them lol
 
Since I adopted my nearly adult 3 girls, they were use to the Tesco one, I did try to ween them onto pellets but they were having none of it. Eventually I gave in and reverted back to Tesco, for some reason they prefer Gerty, they eat more of it, but they are still very happy with the Tesco Purple pig version.
 
We bought the Tesco purple bag for our new guinea pigs. We had a bag of the original feed from the previous owner which we were to mix with our new feed. Straight away the piggies picked out the new Tesco from their old mix. Obviously they loved it or fancied a change. They eat just under a bowlful a day and thats 2 piggies.
 
Mine love Tesco purple bag, but I need to buy sacks, so they don't get it often. They much prefer it to Wagg muesli, always lots of grains left over in that.
 
I went out and bought some Tesco purple bag after reading all of the mostly positive views here but my pigs are not impressed. I always put out at least three different types of nuggets and the Tesco stuff is the last to go. There are also always bits left. The white bits look suspiciously like squashed polystyrene .... needless to say my pigs eat those bits!

I think it is quite pricey at £4.99 per bag.
 
I wouldnt touch tesco food for my pigs unless there was no other option left. My male pig came on the purple bag and the ingrediants were dire - colours and dried peas?! Seriously?! I would much rather spend the extra to get something like Burgess or Oxbowe - even Pets at home own brand nuggets are good and cheap.
 
we tried tescos on our girls, they all enjoyed it, we thought it was similar to gerty guinea pig food which we are using at the moment i would defenetly use it again.
 
Char-x said:
I wouldnt touch tesco food for my pigs unless there was no other option left. My male pig came on the purple bag and the ingrediants were dire - colours and dried peas?! Seriously?! I would much rather spend the extra to get something like Burgess or Oxbowe - even Pets at home own brand nuggets are good and cheap.
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i agree it seems to be full of all kinds,i use burgess pellets an sometimes p@h pellets if i cant get burgess;)
my piggies love it and i have no waste, so even though there are cheaper foods i find i end up putting alot of them in the bin! were as i dont with burgess/p@h pelletsrolleyes
 
To be honest I'm rather shocked people on here would use it.
 
I tend to alternate between Pets at Home Nuggets (or sometimes Excel Nuggets) for health reasons and the Tesco food with the purple paw packaging (which they love more).
 
Swapping around foods isnt good for pigs and can cause upset stomachs. I would advise that you keep them on Pets at Home nuggets or Excell nuggets, and then for treats give them something like Naturals Herbal Heaven or something, or a nice treat hay. Tesco food is full of additives, dried peas and colourings and will encourage your pigs to selective eat and make them less happy about foods such as excell in the long term, best to make the switch while they still eat them.
 
Thanks Char-X - to explain, I was thinking along the lines of variation is good (which I've read elsewhere). I know the nuggets are more recommended than the muesli types but I tend to think the nuggets seem a bit bland to be the only dry food.

I normally use one bag of each type of food then when it is nearing being used up I mix half and half for a few days, not an immediate full switch to the other type.
 
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