white pee

[uwuloli]

hi, sooooo first full day with my two new guinea pigs :3 this morning i gave them some veggies,(one leaf of green leaf lettuce split in half, 1/4 of a green bell pepper, one baby carrot split in half, two slices of zucchini, one per pig.) and then i did the same in the afternoon. in between the veggies i fed each of them 1/4 pellets. Welllllll i saw that one of them peed on their cardboard box and it’s white, i’m sure it’s excess calcium but i didn’t feed them anything high in calcium ? did i feed to many veggies, should i cut back on pellets? Everyone feeds there piggies different amounts so it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how much to feed, after all it is my first day I am also trying to come up with a routine, they were on pellets before i rescued them so i’m trying to stick to them, just unsure about when to feed pellets and then veggies. i would like to split the veggies in two portions, so idk when to feed the pellets.

 

[sport_billy]

Dont stress wee varies in cloudy and is often cloudy white. The key things is when it drys it is not gritty. Powdery deposits in wee is fine also
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[Wiebke]

hi, sooooo first full day with my two new guinea pigs :3 this morning i gave them some veggies,(one leaf of green leaf lettuce split in half, 1/4 of a green bell pepper, one baby carrot split in half, two slices of zucchini, one per pig.) and then i did the same in the afternoon. in between the veggies i fed each of them 1/4 pellets. Welllllll i saw that one of them peed on their cardboard box and it’s white, i’m sure it’s excess calcium but i didn’t feed them anything high in calcium ? did i feed to many veggies, should i cut back on pellets? Everyone feeds there piggies different amounts so it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how much to feed, after all it is my first day I am also trying to come up with a routine, they were on pellets before i rescued them so i’m trying to stick to them, just unsure about when to feed pellets and then veggies. i would like to split the veggies in two portions, so idk when to feed the pellets.

Hi!

Please read our diet guide; it has got a picture with a sample diet. I can't judge your pepper - a small one that size is OK for two piggies but a large one would be too much.
Carrots or sweet corn are like feeding cake, so be sparse with them and rather use them as a special treat and as an enrichment. There is a difference between edible veg and healthy veg; the last chapter of our diet guide deals with that aspect.
Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets

I would recommend to try and include more green and leafy stuff in the diet, like fresh herbs (cilantro is the one that you can feed daily; the others part of a mix but not every day) and I would also make sure that you feed a certain small amount of calcium rich leaves (which are also the ones containing magnesium, which is not in pellets).

A diet that is too low in calcium is as detrimental as a diet too high in calcium in the longer term, and can lead conversely to calcium pees, too. I would not worry about the occasional calcium pee, and certainly not after a marked change in diet with new piggies; stress can also contribute to cloudy pees.

Unfortunately how much calcium you can safely include in a diet depends very much whether you live in a hard or soft water area, how much your piggy is drinking and what/how much pellets you are feeding, as even low calcium pellets still contain more of it than say kale or hay. The UK (where our diet is mainly based on) is mostly a hard water country; in soft water areasand on restricted pellets, you can safely add some more calcium rich veg Sadly there are no charts that tell you what you can feed where.

You have to work it out yourself as long as you are aware that more calcium comes actually by water and by pellets than in their veg diet.




We recommend 1 tablespoon per piggy per day in pellets.
We only have a UK pellet chart but checking the ingredients of your pellet brand may help you to work out where on the scale your brand is: Nugget Comparison Chart