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Have you bought a fantastic product for your piggies? Have you had good service from a supplier?

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Rivervixen said:
My recommendation is piggie parcels! We have received beautiful forage every single time, my boys adore it. Never ever had a bad experience with them, you can tell so much love goes into each package. Their site is Piggie Parcels – Natural Forage Foods
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I love be piggie parcels too.

I can recommend Fuzzbutts and Ada Art Guinea Pig Beds for fabulous piggy beds. Both are lovely to deal with. Ada Art is only on Facebook.

Fuzzbutt Cage Comforts - robust and super funky rat hammocks, chinchilla & small furries beds
 
Haypigs (UK based) have some great enrichment fun stuff that actually works for both piggies and humans to spend quality time together that is not just human centred.
HayPigs!® - Guinea Pig Toys, Feeders, Accessories and Gifts


And there is of course Guinea Pig Magazine, which is a professionally made two monthly magazine with lots of fun, reader piggy gallery and letters, great articles - medical and welfare; cavy behaviours and human interaction (that would be me); a regular column by Saskia from Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue; always a Rescue Story from around the world; Elf's genuinely funny stories (she is a comedian whose routines deal with life with guinea pigs); The Cavy Corner sanctuary corner; a Question and Answer section with professionals with real guinea pig experience answering the questions. Plus a title piggy interview - it could be one of your piggies! :)
It's both a magazine you want to curl up on the sofa with your favourite tipple as well as a great family magazine where you'll have a fight about who gets first read!

Guinea Pig Magazine can be subscribed world-wide either as a printed edition or as a cheaper download version.
Here is the website link for Guinea Pig Magazine: Home
 
My recommenations are only for Austria/Germany, but since there are members from these countries, I'll post them anyway:

For dried herbs and things like that:
Hagenthaler Naturfuttermanufaktur - Hagenthaler Naturfuttermanufaktur (A)
https://www.hansemanns-team.de/ (G)

Handmade goodies:
Lemminge, die direkt ins Mäulchen wandern - Steppenlemming´s (A)

Fleecy stuff:
Nicoles Kuschelwerkstatt (A)
Anni-Sophie (A)
Kuschelsachen Meerschweinchen (G)

I added the country, the shop is located in. All deliver to Austria and Germany, but the costs for delivery are different.
Of course there are more shops in Germany that sell fleece items, but I haven't tried them all. ;)
 
Rivervixen said:
I also recommend @Lavinia (I don’t remember if you have a site I’m sorry) her tunnels are loved by my babies and she is such a wonderful person! Always arrived quickly and had no complications. She even made extra large for Bruno’s extra large piggy bum :)
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Yes @Lavinia 's corner tunnels are amazing, especially for skinny pigs, and/or piggy couples who like to snuggle but also want their own space :)
Tallulah wriggles a lot and her husboar Ollie farts a lot so they like to sleep bum-to-bum in the corner tunnel!
 
I recently started using these bed pads under the vet bed after using disposables for ages and they are amazing! The cage needs fully changing far less I used to full clean every other day but now do twice a week and everything was still bone dry so could probably make it once a week! Obviously with spot cleaning at least once a day but it's still been a game changer for us 😅

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008JEUG6W?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
 
As well as the brilliant Piggie Parcels, my lot are fans of a couple of other forage shops, but as they’re also for bunnies you’ll have to double check everything’s safe for piggies :)

My RB chinchillas favourite and my piggies also absolutely love Galens Gardens, some lovely forage and bits and bobs, as well as seeds, plants and dried grasses/hays. (Just watch out for the milk thistle as full of spikes, they hurt my hand and went in the bin! 😆)
Galen's Garden's Shop

Hop to Forage, also for bunnies so check everything’s safe first. My gang (and @Bill & Ted ‘s as well as a couple of other piggies) have gone mad for the spearmint leaf recently as well as a few others! :drool:
Hay & Natural Forage For Rabbits in Fife, Scotland | Hop To Forage

And my lovely mate @Bill & Ted Jane’s Etsy shop! Amazing quality and most of my gear is from her! (And she makes no profit for herself, just makes things for TEAS with it instead cuz she’s amazing! :luv::D)
GuineaSnugglesShop | Etsy

As well as lovely @Lavinia’s Etsy shop SnugPigs, the three tunnels we’ve bought so far look like they’re still new after ages and lots of washes here and are gorgeous! And these lot blooming love them! :D:love:
 
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alpacasqueak said:
As well as the brilliant Piggie Parcels, my lot are fans of a couple of other forage shops, but as they’re also for bunnies you’ll have to double check everything’s safe for piggies :)

My RB chinchillas favourite and my piggies also absolutely love Galens Gardens, some lovely forage and bits and bobs, as well as seeds, plants and dried grasses/hays. (Just watch out for the milk thistle as full of spikes, they hurt my hand and went in the bin! 😆)
Galen's Garden's Shop

Hop to Forage, also for bunnies so check everything’s safe first. My gang (and @Bill & Ted ‘s as well as a couple of other piggies) have gone mad for the spearmint leaf recently as well as a few others! :drool:
Hay & Natural Forage For Rabbits in Fife, Scotland | Hop To Forage

And my lovely mate @Bill & Ted Jane’s Etsy shop! Amazing quality and most of my gear is from her! (And she makes no profit for herself, just makes things for TEAS with it instead cuz she’s amazing! :luv::D)
GuineaSnugglesShop | Etsy

As well as lovely @Lavinia’s Etsy shop SnugPigs, the three tunnels we’ve bought so far look like they’re still new after ages and lots of washes here and are gorgeous! And these lot blooming love them! :D:love:
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Thanks Becci that so lovely of you say x
 
The beastie boys thoroughly recommend these hammocks from Amazon. At time of posting £10.99 for 2Screenshot_2024-01-05-19-37-36-94_b5f6883d2c20a96c53babc0b4ac88108.webp. I appreciate that there are some amazing piggy products available from forum members (that I desperately want) but I have an impossible address and 90 percent of deliveries don't get to me so I use Amazon pick up.
 
Pretty sure I am one of the only members from New Zealand but anyways 🙄
I get my hay from The Bunny Bach, since it is amazing quality and the cheapest I've found so far. They also support many rescues in NZ, and the owner is friendly and helpful. Oh and the hay often comes with a small free gift 🤫
Shop Home | The Bunny Bach
 
After a year I am very happy with having shifted my piggies to Nature's Own hay (they are a Devon based UK farmer).

Delivery is free over £20, which is just about five large 3.5 kg bags (18.5 kg) of their cheaper meadow hay or 4 large timothy bags (15 kg). The bags are compostable. For me Nature's Own is the best compromise between quality and cost after some trials a year ago when my excellent local independent pet shop was sadly sold on to a chain. With ca. 20 piggies I usually go through that amount in a week.

The quality has been mostly great to good and my piggies love it, especially in view of the erratic weather these days. It can be a bit dusty but that hasn't been too much of a problem for my piggies; and in hay from a late harvest there can be the occasional small piece of wood or stalk etc. as you find in any natural product but nothing excessive. In fact, a visiting guinea pig with a sensitivity to hay dust always stopped rasping within 3 days of their arrival... :)
I've never had a bag I couldn't/wouldn't feed, unlike with some other places I've had hay from over the years.

I usually order Wednesdays to ensure a free delivery before the weekend but there is now also an option for a different delivery company for a small fee.

naturesownpets.co.uk/shop
 
I second Natures Own. I've used them for years for meadow hay and occasional forage treats and only had one problem which was sorted quickly with the hay being replaced.
 
I think I'll try Nature's Own meadow hay next month for the piggies. I'll have to pay for delivery first coz I can't order in bulk yet and then the piggies might not like it.
 
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