Tried a new food... now V V V scared!!!

[divegirl]

Hi...have had my boys, Benny and Joon for 3 weeks[they're 8 weeks now] and have been feeding them a plain Chinchilla pellet....thought it might be time to add a little change, so bought a premium Guinea pig food. I read all the ingedients etc very carefully... no molasses, no fruit, just dried veggies, alfalfa and grains. Mixed this 1 part new food to 4 of Chin pellets.
Needless to say....all new food gone.....just Chin pellets left, which I will leave for a day so they eat that too....Does this sound OK?

[Aimeelou]

Yeah, thats sounds fine as long as you take out all the nasty stuff like raisins.

[diet otaku]

yeah, that sounds fine. degus seem to prefer pretty much ANYTHING to pellets, so it's no surprise they ate up the new food and left the pellets, hehe. go ahead and leave some pellets in until they finish that off, so it doesn't go to waste. but they should be fine.

[divegirl]

Many thanks....and don't worry no fruit for my babies....just the occasional taste of human flesh....hehehe.....have told my little girl not to put her fingers in the cage.... Just joking!!!!

[Eamon]

divegirl said:

Hi...have had my boys, Benny and Joon for 3 weeks

Hehe, no Sam? Get one who jumps around all the time, and who looks a bit like Johnny Depp. Smiles ;D

[Hanlou]

dietotaku said:

yeah, that sounds fine. degus seem to prefer pretty much ANYTHING to pellets, so it's no surprise they ate up the new food and left the pellets, hehe. go ahead and leave some pellets in until they finish that off, so it doesn't go to waste. but they should be fine.

Lol - mine LOVE their guinea pig pellets!! (Burgess Guinea Excel)... they prefer it to veggies even! ;D

[divegirl]

Mmmmmmmm.......Johnny.....hehehehe