Vegan Dry Food?

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Are there any widely available dry vegan pig foods? I have looked but have been unable to find any.
 
No, all the ones I've found contain D3 which until very recently has only been available from animal sources (sheeps wool).
 
Thanks, bit concerned about the L-lysine & DL-methionine though, they could be from animals.
 
Abi_nurse said:
Maybe do some research on those. Whats your reason for wanting vegan only? Just asking out of interest, its all personal opinion i suppose.

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They can be vegan but they can also not be vegan. I only want vegan food because I'm vegan and oppose the use of animal products and the exploitation of animals.

I'm happy to supply our pigs with all home made foods if needs be but despite having good knowledge of human nutrition I can't say the same for guinea pigs so I'd need some help with that.
 
Guinea pigs can live off good quality hay and vegetables without the need for commecial diet so long as they are getting enough vitamin C in there diet. You could always do this until you have reasearched into the commercial foods.

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Abi_nurse said:
Guinea pigs can live off good quality hay and vegetables without the need for commecial diet so long as they are getting enough vitamin C in there diet. You could always do this until you have reasearched into the commercial foods.

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Thanks, I often see it recommended that they have a mix of dry and fresh food, is this just to do with money saving or is there a good reason they need dried foods?
 
The dry foods have high contents of fibre and some protein, lots of vitamins and prebiotics to help with a piggies digestive health. They are good for your piggies digestive tract, but not necessary completly necessary.

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Could you feed a goat mix or make your own up? From what I understand they can eat goat mix, not sure what the content is though.
 
I'm a vegan too, and haven't found any definatley vegan ones yet :( at the moment I'm feeding burgess excel because it's without all those colours, but I don't know if it's vegan- just feeding because I haven't found a cruelty free one yet :(
loads of treats available have egg or gelatin or 'animal derivatives' which I think is ridiculous because there's no way piggies would eat them on their own and it's disgusting that they're manufactured for herbivores!
you could look into feeding an all greens diet in the meantime, which I am sort of doing but giving pellets as a back up for vitamins because I'm afraid of them lacking things!
I will keep looking for vegan stuff and let you know if I find any :)
 
TamaraMaria said:
Do you mind if there is oyster chalk in the dry food?
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I don't think you quite understand the concept of vegan! but I'm assuming no as oysters were once alive. I don't like to give my chickies food with oyster shell in, but they need it for calcium for their eggs... :( for piggies I'm not sure why they'd need it?
 
That is the nearest I came to complete vegan guinea pig food - everything seemed vegan, except (as it appeared) the chalk.

Since guinea pigs have bones, they do need chalk, except that in nature they must have another source than oysters....
 
poppylily said:
I don't think you quite understand the concept of vegan! but I'm assuming no as oysters were once alive. I don't like to give my chickies food with oyster shell in, but they need it for calcium for their eggs... :( for piggies I'm not sure why they'd need it?
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It is the best absorbable calcium that exists.
Therefore, part of the lime is added in this way.
 
marge said:
It is the best absorbable calcium that exists.
Therefore, part of the lime is added in this way.
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Oyster take the lime from the water to make their shells out of it. They don't add anything to it.
The fact remains that they no longer live.
 
As others have said you can just feed good quality hay and plenty of vegetables instead of using cavy mix / nuggets , they will be fine although they will probably be quite lean but if you are worried about this and want them to carry more weight then you could also feed them some oats also raw beetroot is good for keeping weight on pigs especially in the winter months if your pigs live outside .
 
Haven't been on for a while since we decided to wait until after xmas to adopt. The closest dry food we've found to being vegan is Tesco's which has D3 in it.

Thanks for your response Andy, I think that's what we'll probably have to do, don't worry, we won't let them go hungry :)
 
If you work out a food without D3, they will need an alternative source of this vitamin. I'm assuming that, like us, they generate their own in sunlight and so indoor piggies would become deficient. But that said there's the whole fur coat thing?

I've got a burning question I keep thinking about. If you're vegan and you provide a home for ex battery hens do you have to throw away any eggs they produce?

Paula
 
paulag said:
If you work out a food without D3, they will need an alternative source of this vitamin. I'm assuming that, like us, they generate their own in sunlight and so indoor piggies would become deficient. But that said there's the whole fur coat thing?

I've got a burning question I keep thinking about. If you're vegan and you provide a home for ex battery hens do you have to throw away any eggs they produce?

Paula
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The fur coat and sunlight thing confused me a bit as well. You can use vitamin D2 instead of D3, having said that, there is now a vegan vitamin D3 but it won't be what Tesco's are using as it's a very new product. Handily, the new vegan D3 can just be sprayed on to food so no need to try and convince them to eat it.

Regarding the hens, although I don't keep any myself, as I understand it if you leave the eggs with the chickens they will stop producing them and possibly eat them themselves. If you take (steal?) the eggs then they will continuously lay in order to replace the missing eggs. The thing is, if you don't regard the ovulations of a chicken as food then it's hard to see not eating them as wasting food.
 
Just a quick 'well done' to you Lettuce head for being a strict vegan.
I am strict vegetarian, but have struggled to be vegan.
I do try to make sure things i buy are organic or free range.
I have recently changed all my cosmetics and stuff over to ones that aren't tested on animals, as i can't bear the thought of things being used on animals, and squirted in their eyes etc, just so i can smell or look better. :(
 
willow said:
Just a quick 'well done' to you Lettuce head for being a strict vegan.
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Thank you. Really though, it's not difficult or a hardship in any way, though I understand it can be hard to become vegan in the first place, it's a seemingly big change.

BTW - I'm not strict at all, pretty chilled out really :D
 
Lettuce Head said:
Thank you. Really though, it's not difficult or a hardship in any way, though I understand it can be hard to become vegan in the first place, it's a seemingly big change.

BTW - I'm not strict at all, pretty chilled out really :D
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I'm a strict vegetarian, and that's a piece of cake, because it's something that I believe in.

I tried going vegan and struggled, because the passion for the beliefs and ethics weren't 100% there.

Once you have the passion, I believe it's simple!
 
Amanda1801 said:
I'm a strict vegetarian, and that's a piece of cake, because it's something that I believe in.
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I think strict vegetarian is a term used for someone that eats a vegan diet, I don't get the use of the term strict myself, people don't say they're strict non smokers etc. You either are or you aren't.
 
Lettuce Head said:
I think strict vegetarian is a term used for someone that eats a vegan diet, I don't get the use of the term strict myself, people don't say they're strict non smokers etc. You either are or you aren't.
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I'm a "strict" vegetarian in terms of while I don't eat meat, I also won't eat any other products of slaughter/bits of animal e.g. animal fats, gelatine, E120, isinglass etc.

Of course, that's just the definition of a vegetarian, someone who doesn't eat meat or byproucts of slaughter, but in todays society, there's plenty of "vegetarians" who will happily eat gelatine and stuff. The amount of times I've ordered a supposedly vegetarian meal in a restaurant, only to find it covered in parmesan mallethead

I'm not a vegan however, as I eat dairy and eggs.
 
Lettucehead, do I know you from another forum? You just remind me of another vegan I know. I have the same username on vegan forums etc.
 
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