Does seagrass count as dried forage?

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Pantalaimon

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Today I bought one of these chew things as seen in the picture, it is a seagrass basket stuffed with other dried plants.
One of my guinea pigs is 6 in the next 2 months and I try to keep the calcium in her diet quite low as she leaves little piles of calcium deposit on the fleece (not white marks, they are actual piles). I was wondering whether the dried plants in this basket would be high in calcium the same way dried herb mixes and redigrass are?
Thank you for any information!
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I can't answer your question as to whether its low in calcium or not but my piggies love those. You've just reminded me I'll have to get another one as its been a while since they last had one.
 
Mine seem to really like it too, as soon as I put it in they were munching on it!
Also, do you remove the strings? I felt they could be dangerous but without them the contents will just fall out, I left them on for the moment and have been supervising carefully but obviously I cant be here all the time.
 
I would personally not consider this anything more than a toy to be honest.
I know mine would not sit and eat it like they would sit and eat a forage in their hay.

I would remove the string
 
Piggies&buns said:
I would personally not consider this anything more than a toy to be honest.
I know mine would not sit and eat it like they would sit and eat a forage in their hay.

I would remove the string
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Thank you for responding. My boar (Pat) is incredibly destructive and eats literally everything (correx, bars, fluffy blankets, fingers...) and sometimes Ratter (sow who is nearly 6) will copy so I was just wondering whether to limit it the same way I limit their dried herbs and redigrass coated tunnel to once a month. I definitely see what you mean about it just being a toy though, certainly if once the novelty wears off they stop eating it.
I will remove the string if I go to leave it in there for longer, right now I am in the next room and can regularly check on them.
 
Merab's Slave said:
I’ve never seen that before but mine do love a sea grass house.
It gets slept in, weed and pooed in and chewed to destruction
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I had a seagrass tunnel ages and ages ago, they liked it at first but eventually it became a toilet!
It is almost like being soaked in urine re-hydrates it and makes it smell like it would have smelt when it first came out of the sea.:vom:
 
We've not had any experience with seagrass but we live in a hard water area. Crusty build up on taps and in kettle is a good indicator. So we filter the water for the pigs and the white patches have all but disappeared. Only occurs now when too much calcium rich veggies given.
 
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