what to feed 5 weeks babies?

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My two little babys are doing great...they love their hay, fussy with their dry food...love their carrot...dont like ant other veg much at the mo..is it because of their age do you think? they graze on the grass in the day..but I just cant get them to eat different veg yet...I thought perhaps because their only babys still..What do you think? Lin
ps. What kind of dry food do you recommend, becaues iv tried two sorts and they just pick out the best bits and leave the rest..??/
 
I feed our babies on Wagg Optimum as its nice small pellets for them to eat.
They should be accepting a wide range of fruit/veg now especially if its been offered from when they were born. Keep perservering giving them small amounts of various stuff and they should learn its to eat

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Make sure that your youngsters do drink. If necessary, offer them both bottle and bowl (even though you will probably end up cleaning out the bowl twice a day!)

Keep the youngsters' pellet bowl topped up until they are about 6 months old and reduce slowly to an adult handful or half handful.

Persevere with serving a variety of veg and fruit, but never introduce more than one new veg or fruit at the time. They will eventually catch on!

Lots of hay! If you want, you can buy one bag of alfalfa and mix it in with the normal hay to tidy them over at first. Alfalfa is very high in calcium and should only be given to pregnant and nursing sows and very young pups. But with plenty of good quality pellets, they can get their calcium from there.
 
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Hav put a bowl of water in cage too now...have just been out and bought some science selective it was on offer at 99p for 350g bag...they are eating it at the moment so fingers crossed they wont leave loads of it like the gerty guinea mix...also they have just finished a chunk of cucumber soo I'm happy happy:)):)) Lin

Thanks for the replys!
 
Hi Lin,
My 8 week old boys love the Sciene selective food, and so far I've not read a bad review about it!
Hope they start enjoying some more of that fresh stuff
 
Their eating science selective pretty well now...also started to eat more veg...i think they just needed to get use to them...i dont think they had had much veg before..now i got them begging for more!:)):)):))
 
Mine are fussy eaters at the moment too. they like apple, carrot, dandelion flowers, leaves and stalks, brocolli and grass. Its hit and miss with anything else
 
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