Feeding & Nutrition
It is important that your guinea-pig gets all the foods it needs to stay healthy. There are so many different things - what to feed them?
Hay
Your guinea-pig should have an unlimited supply of hay. Hay keeps the guinea-pigs teeth to a good length and also aids their digestion. Just ordinary timothy hay is perfect for guinea-pigs. It can be bought from pet shops, but they are often in small bags and expensvie. If you have the space to store it, buying a bale or half bale from a farmer would be a lot cheaper and would last longer, and it is often very good quality hay.
Fruit & Vegetables
Guinea-pigs cannot make their own vitamin C and so they have to get it from their food. Because of this, guinea-pigs should have at least one cup full of vegetables per guinea-pig per day. Fruit should only be fed to guinea-pigs occasionally. To find out what fruit and vegetables guinea-pigs can and can't have click here.
Pellets
Guinea-pigs should have a 'main food' although this should not be the main part of their diet, and once a guinea-pig becomes fully-grown he will not need very many pellets. Although when a guinea-pig is still a baby they should have unlimited pellets because they are still growing.
Pellets are better than mix-foods because they prevent selective feeding, where guinea-pigs pick bits out of the food that they like. Also mix foods normally have lots of unneccessary sugars and colourings in them which aren't very
Pellets are better than mix-foods because they prevent selective feeding, where guinea-pigs pick bits out of the food that they like. Also mix foods normally have lots of unneccessary sugars and colourings in them which aren't very
