Guinea Pig Not Eating Hay Or Pellets

A healthy guinea pig diet includes an unlimited amount of hay a cup of fresh vegetables a small serving of pellets and some occasional treats.

Guinea pig not eating hay or pellets. Recommendations for a balanced general guinea pig diet. Not open for further replies. Guinea pigs loves to eat in fact they live to eat. The daily cycle of a guinea pig includes eat poop sleep and repeat.

Guinea pigs not eating their pellets. The final straw was when we saw some dark blood on the newspaper. If your guinea pig is not eating their food then the same can affect their gut movement. We have two boar guinea pigs brothers two and half years old.

She is blind and has developed a lump near her eye. We brought him in. They need to have food in their digestive system constantly to avoid health problems like diarrhea. Should i take her to the vets and is this a warning sign of illness.

They should be eating mainly hay and veggies not pellets but if they ate them regularly before and suddenly stopped you need to get them checked by a vet that is familiar with guinea pigs. He has a rack full of lovely expensive oxbow timothy hay and he is totally ignoring it. As they are herbivores their diet should include high quality plant like hay. Do you weigh your pigs.

Pellets are the least crucial part. In the interval between feeds your girls won t go hungry eating unlimited hay which should make up to 80 of the daily food intake and is the crucial part in long term health. If a guinea pig stops eating it s extremely difficult to recover them from this especially if you re not willing to put in the work required hand feeding and will die. Guinea pig s teeth grow continuously.

Why is my guinea pig not eating pellets. He also has hay for bedding which gets nibbled a little but not much. But my guinea pig jack won t eat it. Gps have teeth that never stop growing and their cheek or back teeth can grow over their tongue holding it down and then they can t grind food.

Over the last few weeks my daughters began to notice him losing weight. I have a guinea pig who is 7 and around 2 days ago she stopped eating her pellets. Guinea pigs who don t eat enough food slowly slow their digestive system and lose their appetite making it more difficult for you to encourage him to get back on track. Crunchie has always been smaller and lighter but very active and healthy eating a mixed diet of excel pellets we live in england hay grass and veg and fruit treats.

Pellets do contain everything a pig needs but if they get it through their veggies and hay they will be just as healthy as eating pellets. Guinea pig not eating pellets might be because of dental pain. I know that 80 of a guinea pig s diet should be hay. As pbatters said so long as your giving them hay and the right veggies they will be fine skipping pellets.