Change In Diet

[910Grace939]

I have two Guinea pigs, one of them, Molly, hasn’t been eating her regular foods. I normally feed them lettuce and peppers for their everyday meal with treats sprinkled in. But a month or so ago she started eating less and less of her normal foods. She eats very little pepper, grapes, carrots, zucchini, and blue berries which were all her favorites. Now I can’t find anything that she’ll eat other that lettuce, hay, and those weird pet store guinea pig pellets. She’s also pooping less, put that’s probably from not eating as much. I don’t know what is wrong with her, why’s she not eating, what should I feed her?

 

[Piggies&buns]

She needs to eat more hay than anything else. It needs to make up 80% of their daily food intake. It keeps their gut functioning properly and their teeth worn down.
Veg is merely a snack. They should only have 50 grams per day. Fruit should not feature highly in the diet at all, they can have one small piece once per week only. Treats shoud not be given daily. pellets just one tablespoon per day (just 5% of the daily food intake).

Have you been weighing her weekly as part of routine care? Please switch to daily weighing to monitor her fibre intake (hay). As hay makes up the biggest part of their diet, any reduction in hay intake causes weight loss but you cannot judge hay intake by eye, weighing is the only way to know what is going on.
Yes pooping less is a sign of not eating much and is a cause for concern. Please weigh her every day (at the same time each day). If she is eating less hay then there is a chance she is losing weight. If she is losing weight then you need to step in and syringe feed her to stop her from losing weight and keep her gut functioning properly and get her to a vet. Eating less hay and losing weight are cause for Concern and a potential sign of illness.

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