What do you feed, with poll!

What dry food do you feed

  • Burgess Excell

    Votes: 18 31.0%

  • Cavy Cuisine

    Votes: 6 10.3%

  • Pets at home nuggets

    Votes: 7 12.1%

  • JR farm

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Gerty Guinea pig

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Science Selective

    Votes: 4 6.9%

  • Tesco nuggets

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 22 37.9%
  • Total voters
    58
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I feed a bit of a mix.

4 parts Spillers GP muesli
1 part Burgess Excel
1 part Science Selective
1 part of donated other feeds.

I feed 50-60g dry feed per pig once a day, plenty of good quality hay and a small amount of veg, hay is topped up in the evening. I have very little wastage and all my pigs are fat and happy on it.

If I have a pig come in with poor nutrition they get extra burgess, probiotics and vit C. Very rarely I have a pig come in that is obese and they go on the same diet as every one else, just a little less dry feed and more exercise.

I use Burgess to make any syringe feed needed with probiotic and vit C added. I use Critical Care for very poorly pigs, but move them onto Burgess as they improve.

Suzy x
 
KingBoris&HisFollowers said:
running a rescue with 50 pigs in Australia does not leave me many options on feed, basically here we have good quality oxbow which costs us triple to buy compared to other countries or we have extremely low grade food from petshops which is usually full of fatty corn/sun flower seeds and high calcium hay so like many other shelters here i decided to make my own chaff mix

It is based on 2 types of grassy hay with goodies like steam rolled oats,barley and a safe muesli mix added, the piggies love it, i do wish i could feed oxbow but it was costing me over $150aud a week to feed
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That's fab making your own, that way you know exactly what's in it and as you say a lot cheaper!

Looks like Wagg and Burgess are the most popular. I might try the Wagg next because I guess in the long term it will be more reliable to get the hold of, and probably costs less than £13 a bag @)
 
I voted Cavy Cuisine. I've been mixing in the JR Farm Grainless Complete Guinea Pig food as I'm planning on changing them over to that as it has the best Calcium: Phosphorous ratio out of all the dry foods I've encountered.
 
I use jollyes pellets. I took them for a health check at the vets on Saturday.

The vet said pellets with the added vitamin c actually loose the vitamin c content 2 weeks after the bag is opened. She said it made no difference how it is stored. Mine is kept in a plastic box with a lid
 
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