Just after a little help on the best way to get vit C in my piggies diet. I am a new owner so just learning.
Vitamin C
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They have vitamin drops * can add to the water. Also red peppers have a good amount. Oranges..but cheek piggys lips because they can get sores from the citris fruits. Sometime else will have more suggestions I'm sure
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Hi please do not add vitamin drops to the water as they get lost through evaporation. I buy vitamin C tablets from the hay experts and each day I give one crushed on a slice of cucumber to my girls. I really recommend it.
Hermes
Teenage Guinea Pig
I was under the impression that given the right amount of a good quality pellet such as the Burgess ones and a variety of fresh veg (bell peppers, brocolli, kale are all good for vitamin C but we wary of giving too much of the latter two due to calcium content) vitamin C supplements weren't really necessary. I can understand supplementing when a pig is ill and it's not going to do any harm the rest of the time but do they really need it supplemented?
Please do not add any supplements to the water. You can't control the intake (most piggies will drink less because they don't like the taste). The only thing additives promote is the quick growth of algae in your bottle!
Include one high vitamin C veg like a slice of pepper, some parsley or broccoli or cabbage to your veg mix every day (parsley and broccoli not daily, and kale only occasionally). Other cabbages like sweetheart can be fed more often when introduced carefully. that way, you will cover the needs of a healthy piggy, considering that most good quality pellets also contain vitamin C.
Give some extra vitamin C to ill piggies. Dissolve 1/8 of a vitamin C tablet in 1ml of water and syringe it for best effect.
Young piggies up to 6-9 months old can have unlimited pellets to cover their need of extra vitamin C and calcium. Once the big growth spurt is over, very gradually start reducing the amount of pellets to the 1/2 -1 handful that mature adult needs (after 12-15 months old). Please weigh your piggies weekly to monitor their health.
Here is more information on what veg they can have (about 1 cupful/50g of mixed veg per piggy per day - up to 80% of the food intake should be hay):
http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42
Vitamin C: http://www.guinealynx.info/diet.html#c
http://www.guinealynx.info/weigh.html
Include one high vitamin C veg like a slice of pepper, some parsley or broccoli or cabbage to your veg mix every day (parsley and broccoli not daily, and kale only occasionally). Other cabbages like sweetheart can be fed more often when introduced carefully. that way, you will cover the needs of a healthy piggy, considering that most good quality pellets also contain vitamin C.
Give some extra vitamin C to ill piggies. Dissolve 1/8 of a vitamin C tablet in 1ml of water and syringe it for best effect.
Young piggies up to 6-9 months old can have unlimited pellets to cover their need of extra vitamin C and calcium. Once the big growth spurt is over, very gradually start reducing the amount of pellets to the 1/2 -1 handful that mature adult needs (after 12-15 months old). Please weigh your piggies weekly to monitor their health.
Here is more information on what veg they can have (about 1 cupful/50g of mixed veg per piggy per day - up to 80% of the food intake should be hay):
http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42
Vitamin C: http://www.guinealynx.info/diet.html#c
http://www.guinealynx.info/weigh.html
I didnt know that about the drops...thanks for correcting my mistake
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Yeah I was doing the same thing with adding drops to their water but will definitely have to have a look and see if i can find a better way to administer it from now on!
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