new toys for my piggys...

[hanmin]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f61/butcher_hoe/Newtoys.jpg
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f61/butcher_hoe/newhaymanager.jpg

finally as you can see i've got the fiddlesticks for my babis...and i've created a new hay manager for them... :D

[popcheek]

in 1st pic, wads tt white white thing on left hand middle corner??

[hanmin]

socks with stuff bedding...

[Hobbes]

Oh. Thot it was a new breed of guinea pig! Hahaha! :D

[popcheek]

lolx
yea coz at 1st i was squinting my eyes to figure out wads tt...
coz from wad i know, his 2 GP got colours one....not pure white

[prodigy]

u bot the medium fiddlesticks wor.... a bit too small when they grow up... like mine.... still looking for big ones...

[daeee]

is your hay box thing made of car?? beware hor if it is. guinea pigs chew car like nobody's business. car is banned from my gp's cage in case she consumes it.

[prodigy]

yupx... confirm destroyed in 3 days :D:D

[daeee]

dun need 3 days. just overnight, you will see it half gone already. i have one pig and she's fully capable of that. you have two lehhh. and then you'll start worrying whether you will see car bits in piggy poo. really lor. get a hay rack..you'll be able to find it in most pet stores.

[Jace Lau]

Sorry just to check. the veggie u feeding is what? Lettuce or cabbage? looks cabbagy to me...

[prodigy]

warts tat stuff on ur tennis ball? looks like squashed flies :s

[hanmin]

yea my new hay manager's made of cupboard...will last till the next time i change my bedding...and the tennis ball..its just some scribblings on the tennis ball..no problem with it...

i feed them cabbage..its erm bejing cabbage if im not wrong..hmm not good for my pigs???

[Hobbes]

Ya, cabbage is not a good idea. Gives them gas, and makes them uncomfortable. Try going to http://www.guinealynx.info/ for more info on the foods that you should and should not feed, as well as their nutritional value :)

[hanmin]

oh ok...hobbes and jace..thanks yeaaa....

[bearies]

dun need 3 days. just overnight, you will see it half gone already. i have one pig and she's fully capable of that. you have two lehhh. and then you'll start worrying whether you will see car bits in piggy poo. really lor. get a hay rack..you'll be able to find it in most pet stores.

or u can go daiso buy one grid and bend it like me... they have ready make de... but i choose to bend myself cos i wan stainless stain de

[Pitoto]

whoa!! you house for your GP is made from the grids one arh... then what do you put as the "roofing material" :cool:

i saw those wired rack for CDs, turn it over, it became a hay rack. :D ;) but need cable tie to fasten it to the grid or cage lor.

[daeee]

hanmin: pigs like dark green leafy veges like kangkong and chye sim :) and carrots, but i heard that too much carrots are not very gd for their liver.

[popcheek]

feed veggy everyday nite & day a few stalks...not too little, not too much
then carrots alternate days
and fruits/corn 1-2 X a week

that's wad i do

[x1AoEVo]

i feed mine xiaobaichai leh.. but sometimes she eat onli, most of the time just leave there.. could it be she dun like? my gp simply loves the hay.. can eat and eat when i just refill fresh ones

[ahwen]

Its okay, she just need time to adjust. Sometimes J J got mood swings one... I feed him Xiao Bai Chye before, the response was just average. If your GP doesnt really touch it for damn few days, it means she really don't like it.

[daeee]

yeah it takes time for you to find out what veges your pig likes. but i can tell you that mine doesn't really fancy xiao bai cai...she'll eat all the leaves and the stem will be left lying there in the bowl.

and btw they like hay coz it's their staple food. like we eat rice as a staple right? so hay is to them what rice is to us.

abt the veges, it takes a while for them to get the hang of eating veges. like slowly they will understand that veges are gd for them laaaa. mine took quite a long time to understand that, and now she gobbles down her favourite veges in no time. :D

[popcheek]

yeah it takes time for you to find out what veges your pig likes. but i can tell you that mine doesn't really fancy xiao bai cai...she'll eat all the leaves and the stem will be left lying there in the bowl.

and btw they like hay coz it's their staple food. like we eat rice as a staple right? so hay is to them what rice is to us.

abt the veges, it takes a while for them to get the hang of eating veges. like slowly they will understand that veges are gd for them laaaa. mine took quite a long time to understand that, and now she gobbles down her favourite veges in no time. :D

wah seh, daeee...
ur sydney and my pigs are SOoooOo alike
i began to suspect they are long lost brothers & sisters hahahaha (although abit impossible lah, all pig is from different seller)

MINE also eat xiaobaichye...the leaf only, and dun wan the stem...so after they eat, i will come back and pick up the fat fat stems....maybe bitter ah? :yuck:

and the reverse goes to sweet potato leaves. In the initial stage ah, Pupu loves the leaves more than the stem.....now they ALWAYS eat the stem , dun eat the leaves, unless they hungry in the middle of the night....coz nx morning i see, sometimes many leaf, sometimes only left little bit.

[daeee]

maybe same guinea pig ancestors lah popcheek.

[x1AoEVo]

Hmm ic.. i got mine some chyesim, better response now.. lol, hope she likes them.. young guinea pigs, what foods are good for them? Can give alfafa?

[ahwen]

Yeah, Alfafal Hay is for preggie and young Guinea Pigs (Below 1/2 Year). But don't buy too much, since after 1/2 year of age will need to switch to Timothy and other Hay liao...

[prodigy]

i stick to timothy since i no young pigs... but if i get hei xing xing i shall buy and give a stalk to van van.... he so underweight

[ahwen]

What happened to van van? Lost appetite?

[prodigy]

i dunnoe lei... for a certain time he dropped a lot and even let cad cad eat his share.... now he also knoe to fight for food... also take part in the wheeking ceromony liao.... lolz.... guess he not that a sadist anymore....

[ahwen]

I see... Things may get better bah... Or that time he dare not fight with Cad Cad... Scali he fall out oflove... Strangely during CNY, J J also don't want to eat his vitamin C tablet. Dunno why also, and keep wheeking at the empty basket to find my cousin's GP. Now back to normal liao.

[prodigy]

probably he take more time to get used to and also maybe thats his character... Chivas and mich i will post u more evans pic soon!!! :D

[popcheek]

Hmm ic.. i got mine some chyesim, better response now.. lol, hope she likes them.. young guinea pigs, what foods are good for them? Can give alfafa?

ur this alfafa is the ALFAFA SPROUT (the bean sprout tt looks like armpit hair) :D :sly:

or ALFAFA HAY? :rose:

i nv try alfafa sprouts b4, so i dunno.... but young piggies is better to eat alfafa-hay based...so even the pellets is OXBOW's CAVY PERFORMANCE, and they also sell alfafa hays. It is good for fattening them up...and to serve as 'foundation'....when quite big liao, then switch to Timothy-hay based ... coz too fat is bad for health :)

[x1AoEVo]

hmm okok, i'll get some alfafa hay stuff soon.. feeding mine timothy hay based food.. hehe, i wan mine fat fat too.. =p