What's this food like?

[PIGGIES FOREVER]

Hi peeps.

Has anyone had this food? What's it like? Is it any good? Do guinea pigs like it? Etc...

 

[PIGGIES FOREVER]

Hi peeps.

Has anyone had this food? What's it like? Is it any good? Do guinea pigs like it? Etc...

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[Piggies&buns]

Doesn’t look too bad - lots of grasses which is good, cold pressed.
It does contain alfalfa (Lucerne in the ingredients) which isn’t ideal but they aren’t alone in containing it, a lot of other commercial brands contain such things also. Calcium looks to be 0.8% which is a little higher than some others

 

[PIGGIES FOREVER]

Doesn’t look too bad - lots of grasses which is good, cold pressed.
It does contain alfalfa (Lucerne in the ingredients) which isn’t ideal but they aren’t alone in containing it, a lot of other commercial brands contain such things also. Calcium looks to be 0.8% which is a little higher than some others

Thank you. what about the soya? And the cereal straw is slightly concerning?

 

[Piggies&buns]

Thank you. what about the soya? And the cereal straw is slightly concerning?

A lot of commercial brands will contain these filler types of ingredients.
As far as I am aware there is no scientific evidence that soya causes issues. Some owners prefer to avoid it, but it is personal choice.

 

[PIGGIES FOREVER]

Would the cereal straw swell in the stomach and act like a grain?

 

[Piggies&buns]

I wonder if it is just straw added to bulk the pellets out cheaply. In which case it would have absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever.
I'm just guessing here as I don’t use these pellets

 

[PIGGIES FOREVER]

I wonder if it is just straw added to bulk the pellets out cheaply. In which case it would have absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever.
I'm just guessing here as I don’t use these pellets

They did mention somewhere that their is a slim chance of it swelling, that's the bit that is concerning me. But I really can't see why straw would or could swell. How can straw swell?

 

[Princess Dustmop]

I don't see anything about swelling ... they mention that the straw may add a small amount of grain. Straw is the stalks of cereal grains (but not the grain itself), so they're basically saying that there's a possibility that a small amount of grain may be introduced via that ingredient.

Were they maybe talking about the pellets swelling if they got wet? Most pellets will puff a bit then disintegrate into a mush that then dries and is very difficult to clean out of a guinea pig's bowl.