diet

My boars are currently eating oxbow young guinea pig essentials. They're four months apart in age however. Jasper just turning 8 months and Neville about to turn 4 months. I know the packagING says up to one year and many vets reccommend one year but I don't want to switch neville too soon...

I've been doing a lot of research into the piggies diet as I'm a new mum, and I want to keep it as fresh and organic as possible for him. Trouble is, the Internet doesn't have a great list of what common European plants and weeds are safe for piggies I have a large meadow behind my house that is...

I feel like I have 2 very unlucky pigs and they just can't seem to catch a break. Over the past few weeks they've been through a lot. Toast has been on AB for a bladder infection and a URI. She's been on 2 different meds for bloat and after weeks of aggressive behaviour it was discovered she...

So from what I've previously read in guinea-pig care books, a medium-sized guinea-pig should weigh between 1 - 2 lbs. However, after weighing each of them my three boars each need to loose half a pound for them to be at a healthy weight. I will hold my hands up to the fact that I do overfeed my...

I recently brought home a rescue pig. He was bought from a pet store, and the girl could no longer take care of him. He's either under or right at the 2 months age mark. He's had some health issues, which I hope are coming to an end. But I am concerned that he may be too small to eat the...

Some of you have been helping me with my thread last week about Ben's breathing here. Kind of keeping this as a sort of log for the past week... He's been having baytril, metacam, vit c supplements, probiotic and critical care recovery food. He was 1.2kg before and hit a low of 1.09 when the...