Timothy Hay Pellets?

[helloitsbecca]

Hello everyone. I have a quick question about pellets. My boys get a small amount of the Science Selective pellets daily at the moment but I had heard that adult guinea pigs should have timothy hay based pellets and not alfalfa based like I believe Science Selective are. They are babies at the moment, so it isn't an issue right now but I was just curious for the future.

 

[Veggies Galore]

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[Tiamolly123]

Hello everyone. I have a quick question about pellets. My boys get a small amount of the Science Selective pellets daily at the moment but I had heard that adult guinea pigs should have timothy hay based pellets and not alfalfa based like I believe Science Selective are. They are babies at the moment, so it isn't an issue right now but I was just curious for the future.

They should have Timothy hay, & golden hay, mountain hay, they should be eating 80% hay its there main diet.

 

[helloitsbecca]

They should have Timothy hay, & golden hay, mountain hay, they should be eating 80% hay its there main diet.

Yeah, they have unlimited hay in the cage, veggies in the morning and evening and a little bit of pellets. Just not sure whether the timothy based pellets or alfalfa based pellets are best for when they are older.

 

[helen105281]

I'm not 100% sure as I try my best to feed grainless where possible. I think the timothy based pellets do tend to be healthier though and have less fillers etc. Harringtons I have been told are a better option if not feeding grainless pellets. Burgess etc do contain lucerne which is Alfalfa.

 

[Rae13]

Just about every big brand food on the market uses Lucerne (Alfalfa). Cavy Cuisine which boasts of not doing has higher calcium than others that do.

I think a lot of rubbish is written about pellets. Dry food should only be a tiny part of their diet anyway.

I've kept guinea pigs all my life and a few years back I took onboard all the info you read on forums like this and swopped from Muesli food to Cavy Cuisine (and Kleenmama which cost me a fortune to import), plenty of hay of course and tried to balance the veggies as mentioned all over the internet to get correct ratios etc.

From that era I got the only two bladder stone pigs I've ever had.

So I don't take a lot of notice of food advice online any more.

I feed a muesli food, loads of hay, loads of vegetables, including the now disdained carrots. No more bladder stones.

 

[flowerfairy]

The rescue that I am adopting two guinea pig boars from soon (eep) feed wagg muesli so that is what I will be doing.

Along with lots of posh hay and some herbs, veg and forage.