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I am just curious to know how much/ when you feed your piggies, from the morning to the evening. I.e- do you feed the bulk of veg in the morning or evening?

I will be getting the piggies soon, and I want everything to be perfect, so I just want to know whether it's best to feed veg in the morning or afternoon.
 
My four piggies have a cupful of fresh veg each daily but I prefer to serve it in two sittings so they have morning veggies and evening veggies.

At the same time, I top up their hay and make sure they have enough dry food and water.
 
Claire W said:
My four piggies have a cupful of fresh veg each daily but I prefer to serve it in two sittings so they have morning veggies and evening veggies.

At the same time, I top up their hay and make sure they have enough dry food and water.
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''Thanks''
 
Toby & Barney have their hay rack filled with timothy hay in the morning and their pellets topped up. They also get their bowl of veg. In the evening I top up their meadow hay in their bed/peeing/pooing areas and they have wheeky-bag (either a handful of salad leaves or half a romaine lettuce between the 2 of them).

Wheeky bag usually occurs at 7pm but they start stomping like a herd of baby heffalumps from about 5.30 (right now).
 
Claire W said:
My four piggies have a cupful of fresh veg each daily but I prefer to serve it in two sittings so they have morning veggies and evening veggies.

At the same time, I top up their hay and make sure they have enough dry food and water.
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My routines pretty much the same for my 4..
Its amazing how they cotton on its tea time without a watch hehe
 
I'm so backwards from school I do major cleaning to the cage, top off hay, and put new pellets around 9 pm and I know I'm late because he goes crazy!
When I wake up I spot check the cage and give some veggies. When I come home for lunch he gets a few more, and at dinner its usually a sweeter veggie or fruit (like dessert)
 
My routine if I'm on a late I see to the piggies in the morning, but if the OH he's on Piggie duty.

The girls tend to know when we're on route as they start squeaking like maniacs! Clean out is every Friday and they get breakfast veg in the morning and some more when it's tea time. Hay, food and water changed and topped up every morning.
 
I spot clean mine about now,change their water, top up hay, and bedtime cuddles and slice of pepper. In the morning, I spot clean if needed top up pellets, and give veggies. They sometimes have veggies at lunch time if I am making a salad sarnie!
 
The OH gets up and does meds (we have 7 heart pigs and other pigs on cystitis medication) and veg
I get up and do water, dry food and top up hay
Go to work
Come home and do the daily cleans which for us take an hour ish and completely clear and refill all hay and dry food
At 9pm we do the waters and nightly meds
At 10pm we do the nightly veg
at 11pm I top up the hay with a different type. Throughout the day they have a mixture of meadow, timothy, oat and Vitakraft mix.

Think that's it, please bear in mind that I have 16 pigs, many of which are special needs.
 
7.00 am breakfast of veggies that are prepared the night before. New hay, pellets and Megs water done. Spend a long time poo picking Meg
7.00 pm prepare veggies for tea and tomorrows breakfast. New hay, pellets and every bodies water done (girls have bottles). Spend a long time poo picking Meg
10.00pm hay if needed and Megs water done (she has a bowl as she can't get to a bottle and it turns into poo milkshake). Spend a long time poo picking Meg.

Meg gets cleaned every other day, she free ranges while being cleaned. The girls get cleaned twice a week they go into the indoor run for most of the weekend and on a few evenings.
 
6:00am - Fill bowl with nuggets and top up any hay bottles etc.
Then they have the whole day to tackle that.
9:30pm - Piggies get their plate of veggies and they munch it quite quickly.
 
4.00 am amelia Jane starts biting the bars.
5.00 am matthew gives in and gets up. Matthew crushes vitamin c and puts each tablet on a slice of cucumber. They all have a piece and matthew changed water in bottles and bowl, fills bowls with pellets and removes poops. They then have the rest of the cucumber and hay is topped up. Amelia Jane has her medication.
14.00 or 15.00 I remove poops.
16.00 they have vegetables and bowl of water is changed.
20.00 I remove poops,top up hay and water bottles.
 
Normally the girls are fed by my Mum/ Dad before they go to work so usually about 7AM, they get their pellets, hay, veg and water.
When we get back in 5:30pm the girls have some cuddles and at around 8pm I top up their hay again and hand feed them some herbal treats/ some fresh herbs etc.
When I'm off though, the girls don't even wake me up early- they're both very quiet, we normally have cuddles and they normally are fed a little later at about 8:30-9AM but they don't complain.
 
Guinea pigs are grazers, so it's nice to split their daily veggies into a couple of smaller meals throughout the day.
In the morning, I give them a 1/8th of a cup of pellets each and top off their hay and water bottles. In the afternoon I'll give them each half a cup of veggies and some wheatgrass, and then at night I'll give them the rest of their veg.
 
My daily routine for the piglets is in the morning to clean out/empty their water and leave their leftover pellet food to nibble on, usually given grass throughout the day and extra hay (their bedding is hay they munch on that) plus checking the boy's water every now and again because they seem to get all their food into it. I also give them veggies throughout the day (just small amounts) and then they are given a big plate of mixed veggies in the evening for 'veggie time' :))
 
I feed them two times daily fresh veggies (500g per feeding, 3 piggies) and hay.

In the evening they get new dried food (herbs, leaves and a little bit seeds&grain) and grass.
 
I'll clean up poops in the morning, giving fresh water as well as their fresh veggies!
Then in the evening, I'll do another clean up, top hay rack up, top dry food and give a large handful of ReadiGrass or fresh grass (depending on the season)! I'll sometimes give them some veggies in the evening but very rarely as mine are so chubby!:))
 
I get up and give the boys a top up of hay and timothy hay. I then go downstairs and get their veggies ready and hand them their veg through the bars and put the rest in their bowl. I refill their water bottle if it needs it. One cage drinks their water 3x faster than the other two so I often refill that more.

Throughout the day I top up with hay and timothy hay and the very rare treat of readigrass once every few weeks. None of my boys eat pellets anymore as its bad for two of them.

At night time they get their final veggies and refill of water bottle if they need it and then before I go to bed I again check their hay and fill it up for them.
 
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