Nugget Comparison Chart

Flutterby said:
They are a good pellet, just be prewarned though that some pigs can take a bit of getting used to those pellets, they are an acquired taste.
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I have tried the rosewood ones which Were similar shape and my 7 crazy pigaroos loved them so I hope they'll love these too. If not I'll take them to the nearest rescue x

Thank you for creating that chart. I bet it was time consuming :)
 
Flutterby said:
Thank you :) It did take some time, but it was a labour of love!
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I am pleased to say that piggies new pellets arrived from Germany in a massive 15 kg bag hahahahaah and pigs love them! Yes they are messier but they smell absolutely amazing! I can smell
Timothy hay and others! So pleased! Thank you for thechart again @Flutterby x
 
The only two pellet brands my pigs enjoy is Oxbow Cavy Cuisine and Versele Laga Cavia Complete. At the moment, I give them a mix of both, but I was wondering if one is better than the other? I like the fact that Cavia Complete is grainless, but Oxbow has a lot more crude fibre. Or maybe I should just continue providing both? They seem to be doing reasonably well, although my youngest sow is a bit chubby.
 
I don't see any harm in providing both, as long as you stick to the recommended amounts daily for the pigs.
 
Yes, i give half the recommended amount of each pellet type, so I'm sure I'm not overfeeding. I just wanted to know if one is better than the other and then stick with it.
 
Thank you for doing this. I can't believe how lovely and helpful the people who run and are involved in this forum are, and how much time and effort you put in to supporting everyone. Can I say a big thank you to you all on behalf of all of us regular guinea pig owners. :D:D:D:D:D That's my way of giving you all a five star rating.
 
RosieMaia said:
Yes, i give half the recommended amount of each pellet type, so I'm sure I'm not overfeeding. I just wanted to know if one is better than the other and then stick with it.
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They both have their plus sides, I wouldn't be worried about either of them being better.

Reenie said:
Thank you for doing this. I can't believe how lovely and helpful the people who run and are involved in this forum are, and how much time and effort you put in to supporting everyone. Can I say a big thank you to you all on behalf of all of us regular guinea pig owners. :D:D:D:D:D That's my way of giving you all a five star rating.
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Thank you :D
 
I am not pro-pellets and I use some pieces of them only as a treat; but when I come into some shop I try to see new products and read carefully their labels.
Today I was pleasently surprised by the very good label of a food produced by an italian (not famous at all) firm. Be sure that I am definitely far from being a nationalist and I don't have trust in most of the italian brands (even the ones you love). This firm sells products also abroad, but I don't know if you can really find it. Anyway, I upload the product (cheaper than other ones) and its label for a comparison.
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Ingredients: (names in latin+english)


COMPOSIZIONE:


Only Bio-organic ingredients
Polyphyte meadow hay composed of:

- Alopecurus myosuroides

- Festuca rubra

- Poa pratensis

- Agropyrum repens

- Trifolium

- Taraxacum officinale

- Vicia sylvatica

- Leucanthemum vulgare

- Agrostis capillaris

- Trifolium dubium Phleum pratense

- Alchemilla vulgaris

- Chamerion angustifolium

- Plantago major

- Hypericum

- Deschampsia caespitose

- Platanthera bifolia

- Trifolium pratense

- Trifolium repens

- Pisum arvense

- (Avena sativa)

- sprouts of barley (Hordeum vulgare)

- whole beans

- alfa-alfa
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- topinambur (Helianthus tuberosus)

- zucca (pumkin)

- sedano (celery)
ADDITIVES:
Made without flours and preservatives.
Vitamin C stabilised 450mg/kg
crude proteins: 15,2%
crude fiber 21%
crude fats and oil 3,2%
ash 4,8% (and this is the very best value even read on the labels)
calcium: phosphorus 1.8:1
calcium 0,6
phosphorus 0.37

The cost has been €2,35 750g (on sale)
another very good thing read on the label is: "use the product only ONE time a day".
I am sure this firm will go soon bankrupt!:))
 
I just received a package from Zooplus, but instead of 8 kg of Versele Laga Cavia Complete, I received Versele Laga Complete Herbivore. Is that the same thing? Here's what it looks like.

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Hmm, I'm struggling to find any info on the Herbivores one, I think it may have been Versele Laga's general herbivore food before they went into the specific species ie. rabbit, guinea pig, degu. Let me look into it more. I'd be reluctant to feed it just yet as it seems aimed at multiple species and not guinea pig.
 
@RosieMaia can you check the sell by/best by date on the package for me please? This food isn't on the Versele Laga website which makes me think its an old food. In which case I would want zooplus to take it back and send you some actual Cavia Complete.
 
Ok, from what I have found it looks like Versele Laga use the herbivore packaging for all their large bags of food. As long as the product label at the bottom says 'Cavia Complete' then that is what you have got. Hope this helps!
 
Ah, thanks - yes, the bottom label does say Cavia Complete (I thought they had attached the wrong label), and the sell-by date is the end of 2018, which should be good enough. Thanks so much for your help!
 
I have Versele Laga cavia Complete at home, bought from Zooplus, too, but my box is 1,75kg and does not have that label; therefore I guess they only used the wrong box and for this reason they put the label on it. You can check the ingredients (I can copy mine), but it is not a problem about ingredients... sometimes the food for rabbits contain some supplement or additives which is bad for cavies... if you want to be sure, I can copy exactly the amount of vitamins, supplements and ingredients of Versele Laga Cavia Complete.
 
rome_italy said:
I have Versele Laga cavia Complete at home, bought from Zooplus, too, but my box is 1,75kg and does not have that label; therefore I guess they only used the wrong box and for this reason they put the label on it. You can check the ingredients (I can copy mine), but it is not a problem about ingredients... sometimes the food for rabbits contain some supplement or additives which is bad for cavies... if you want to be sure, I can copy exactly the amount of vitamins, supplements and ingredients of Versele Laga Cavia Complete.
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It is the large 8kg sacks that use the herbivore packaging, but it is cavia complete.
 
Thanks, Rome_Italy! I have a smaller bag of Versele Laga Cavia Complete, and yes, the ingredients and the other information listed on the label are identical. I thought they had put the wrong label on the Herbivore packaging though (it really didn't occur to me they'd be using the same bag for all pellet varieties).

For what it's worth, I'm very happy with the food, it appears to have been produced less than a month ago, so it's very fresh. And the pigs like it better than usually. :)
 
So which food are you recommending for adult pigies as best ,don't care about the cost ,want to feed them whats good for them ,was so dissapointed in finding out about burgess
 
I don't think there is one that is 'the best' but staying grainless and low in calcium is the best way to go.
 
Flutterby said:
I don't think there is one that is 'the best' but staying grainless and low in calcium is the best way to go.
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Thankyou ,I lost sleep over this thinking i have let these darling little animals down re-food .I get the guineapig magazine to try to stay up to date ,but I see I should come on here more often .Most books are out of date .
 
Has anyone looked into the new-ish Science Selective Grainless?

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I'm currently feeding a mix of JR Grainless, Versele and Rosewood but I'd love to add something else to the mix.

4harmony2 said:
Thankyou ,I lost sleep over this thinking i have let these darling little animals down re-food .I get the guineapig magazine to try to stay up to date ,but I see I should come on here more often .Most books are out of date .
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I personally find a mix of a few nuggets is best, for a few reasons. Firstly they don't get so fussy and only eat one type of food, my lot have had loads of different types now. Secondly, I reckon if there are any downsides to a particular nugget if I mix it with others they don't get too much of the same thing and can forage bringing natural behaviours, if that makes sense :)
 
Cavy Kung-Fu said:
Has anyone looked into the new-ish Science Selective Grainless?

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I'm currently feeding a mix of JR Grainless, Versele and Rosewood but I'd love to add something else to the mix.



I personally find a mix of a few nuggets is best, for a few reasons. Firstly they don't get so fussy and only eat one type of food, my lot have had loads of different types now. Secondly, I reckon if there are any downsides to a particular nugget if I mix it with others they don't get too much of the same thing and can forage bringing natural behaviours, if that makes sense :)
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I saw those too , but was taken aback by "calcium carbonate" presence , ended up not getting them.
I might be wrong but .....
 
I looked at them, but compared to buying others online they seem a bit expensive, I wasn't sure about some of the ingredients. So walked away for now. I did think I would get some if the ingredients are alright when I get further down the bag of JR Farm ones I've got at the moment, as I also like to feed a mixture to stop risk of brand dependancy.
 
Flutterby said:
So after looking at the different foods available and finding that the information is spread all over the place I have started to compile a spreadsheet of the nuggets available here in the UK (and most in other countries). I am still gathering information but I have put the basics into a spreadsheet so that they can all be compared together.

If there is anything else you think I could add to the spread sheet, please let me know, or if you have any info about the blank spaces I'd be grateful too! Here it is so far.

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Hi,

I am looking for a low calcium pellet, because I lost a piggie due to a bladder stone.
I like your chart, but I have a question:
- how did you get the 0.5% at the JR farm grainless complete guinea pigs? According to their website it has 7970mg calcium per kg, so it is around 8g/kg.

Thanks :)
 
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