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i am now having 6 month guiena pig and i let him in the dog cage for 2 days to used to my room , then i will let him free roam in my room . can i do that . i have no pellet what should i feed him and does guiena pig pee smell . thanks LINHS BROTHER
 
I wouldn't let my piggy free range unsupervised you never know were he would get to and I would say yes urine smells if not cleaned.

What do you mean you have no pellets what are you feeding him on? ?/ Does he have hay?
 
Hello! Welcome to the forum.

If you want your guinea pig living in your room, you will need a sleep and a toilet corner for it. A plastic tray will do the trick for the toilet corner. You put some newspaper on and then some hay over it. Clean it out regularly, ideally daily or at least every second day, as it will smell and attract all kinds of insects you (and your guinea pig) will not want in your room! Make sure that the toilet tray is standing somewhere protected, so the guinea pig will want to use it. If wished, put a turned up cardboard box with door openings over it. Roaming guinea pigs will create their own toilet corners - put plastic down where yours will sit regularly, so you can just wipe it and keep your room clean and odourless that way.

Your guinea pig will want a place to sleep and hide as well. You can use another tray, put old newspaper on, then an old towel. As a hide, you can use a carboard box, in which you cut "doors". If you put that on top of the tray, your guinea pig has a very cosy little home! You need to change the newspaper and wash the towel regularly, as it will pee and poo on it and it can get very smelly and disgusting very quickly! Make sure that you either block up your bed or that you can get move it easily for cleaning, as your guinea pig will happily live (and pee and poo) under it!

Make sure that your guinea pigs can't leave the room and that no other animals can get in. Cats, dogs and rats will kill guinea pigs.

Here is a link to a good diet. Guinea pigs eat a LOT of meadow (=grass) hay or grass (NOT straw; that can injure the guinea pigs!) and fresh vegetables. Many Asian vegetables are very expensive here in Britain, so we do not feed them, but pak choi and similar vegetables can be fed. Your guinea pig can live without pellets (it is only about 15% of their diet), but you need to make sure that it gets plenty of vitamin C daily from vitamin C rich vegetables like bell peppers or parsley. You give about one generous cup of vegetables per day (accounting for no pellets). You can give half in the morning and half in the evening. Please make sure that you give a mix of vegetables and herbs, as you don't have pellets.

Here is a list of vegetables they can eat. They CANNOT eat any onion or garlic plants, like spring onions or leeks; or potatoes. They should NOT eat any seeds, because they are fattening. However, you can grow some rice in a tray and feed it before it make seedheads. Rice counts as grass.
http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42

Here is a guide for a balanced diet. You will need to adapt it to for your locally available vegetables.
http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37030

Thank you for caring for your guinea pig! I hope that you will enjoy it.

PS: Here is some good general information on guinea pigs and a link to the sounds they make.
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~petergurney/preface.html
(Peter Gurney was one of the first vets to specialise in guinea pigs and is still the best source for information)
http://www.jackiesguineapiggies.com/guineapigsounds.html
 
well . i just give him hay and some mixed vegies like little of carrots cumcumber cabbage tomato etc... and my hay have alot of vit c so i dont need pellets right ? Also what i can do to less smell of pee and poo :p?
 
yes you still need pellets as thats their main food source, pellets are cheap enough to buy.if you clean up regularly ie every morning and night the smell will be lessened
 
but like Wiebke said that i dont need pellets if i give him enough vit C throug the vegies and my grass is have alot of vit C .and we have a lot off grass. but i still dont know what to do now . an place to eat sleep to pee poo and to hide in my room is that enough
 
Grass does NOT have lots of vitamin C naturally. I understand that is not easy in Vietnam to get hold of guinea pig pellets. Give your guinea pig always as much hay as it can eat!

If you are in doubt about vitamin C, you can buy vitamin C tablets, dissolve a bit in boiled and then cooled water and give that to your guinea pig to drink. Scurvy (lack of vitamin C) can kill guinea pigs. The vegetables you are citing do not have that much vit.C in them.
Here is a link for scurvy: http://www.guinealynx.info/scurvy.html

You may want to mark this website, as it is the best medical website for ill guinea pigs and has a lot of solid information.

For the smell: Cleanliness is the best way. Please do not use artificial scents. nearly all of them are not good for the guinea pig's breathing!

Another factor that you need to take into consideration is that guinea pigs do only tolerate a fairly small width of temperatures, about 17-23 degrees Celsius. The further away you go in heat or cold, the more they will suffer. Guinea pigs can die from heat. When it is hot, you would like to freeze a plastic bottle of water and wrap it in a towel, so that your piggy can keep cool.
 
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Can i use the bold to give them water because my water bottle is old now and is broken so i will change soon but before that can i use the cat food bold to give them water ?
And pellets is like the dry cat food right ? but is only for guiena Pig ! In Viet Nam is so rare but the vegies is alot so ... :( What i should to feed him ? What vegies have alot of vit C and what supplement i can use for my Guiena Pig ! Thanks:0mallethead:a19:
 
I would say as long as they have fresh water 24/7. I have tried both bottle and bowl and they don' touch the bowl. Bottles cant get knocked over either so you know they have got some always.
My piggies eat very little pellets even though there is always some down for them. They munch on hay all the time. And I give them a variety of different hays. I don't know if you can get different hay? (Timothy, meadow, oat wheat and barley) Sweet peppers have lots of vit c. Green, red, yellow and orange. I give half of a pepper every day, cut up (but not seeds) alot with a variety of other fresh stuff.
Theres a link with a list of veggies suitable for Guinea pigs and the vitamin content.
Does anyone know where it is? See if I can post it up *goes off to have a look*
 
Have a look in the 'Food' section of this forum too.

There is a good thread called 'Guinea pig shopping list'
 
linhheo1995 said:
Can i use the bold to give them water because my water bottle is old now and is broken so i will change soon but before that can i use the cat food bold to give them water ?
And pellets is like the dry cat food right ? but is only for guiena Pig ! In Viet Nam is so rare but the vegies is alot so ... :( What i should to feed him ? What vegies have alot of vit C and what supplement i can use for my Guiena Pig ! Thanks:0mallethead:a19:
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cant you buy guinea pig pellets over the internet if they are hard to get hold of ?maybe buy a few bags then buy some more when you are on the last bag?
 
I agree the piggy needs a good source of pellets,hay and veges,steady weight is helped along with pellets so its good to have them,i would not rely on the veges and hay alone unless you cannot get pellets in your country,surely there is someone who can send over there?,there are alot of online companys who can help.
Also it would be a good idea to build a C&C cage,a dog crate/cage isnt suitable even for short term use

this company ships to many places even australia where i have trouble getting pellest too,they are very good quality

http://www.oxbowanimalhealth.com/products/type/detail?object=1622
 
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thank you to all of you:D I have an new water bottle now . my room is very small so i just free roam him and i got pellets now ...but i just have only 1 kind of hay does that make them boring and not eat :( just 1 hay...what i can do
 
One variety of hay is OK; especially if you vary the vegetables you give you guinea pig.

Good on you that you can get pellets!
 
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