Guineas wont eat nuggets

[Winniethepiggy]

Hello again,

Over the past few days, ive realised my guinea pigs wont eat their nuggets on a morning.
They used to last week and all of a sudden this week they just arent touching them?
Is it because I'm still scatter feeding my 5 week olds, old food that the lady told me to feed her for a little and both seem to like that better or have they just gone off it?

I feed them twitch nuggets

Thank you

 

[Piggies&buns]

Hay is the most important part of their daily food intake, with nuggets being the least important and not strictly necessary. Not eating nuggets is not, in itself, a problem provided they are still eating plenty of hay and are maintaining their weight.

Scatter feeding isn’t a problem at all - in fact it’s recommended as it can stop food hogging and is also an excellent form of enrichment. I never use food bowls for my animals.

 

[RosieLily]

In the past my ladies sometimes, out of the blue, stopped liking certain brands of nuggets. Personally I don’t feed my pigs nuggets at all anymore. They’re terribly sensitive to calcium, so they get tons of hay and a variety of veg and greens instead.

As long as your little ones are eating their hay c: