If you had a new pet, and you do not know as it is correct to feed him, some secrets of food of guinea pigs will longer allow you to enjoy communication with these surprising and lovely small animals.
Surprising lovely small animals are guinea pigs! They bring a lot of joy and are not whimsical at all.
Be ready!
You should not forget about pigs for a long time, they do not like at all loneliness as in the nature these small animals live in flocks. If your guinea pig lives in a cage, then you will see more than once how it having missed, will rise on back pads and will begin to call up you whistle. Do not forget to get it from a cage that she could run about much and communicate to family members. If your pet freely moves on the apartment, then do not forget to provide him a certain mink that it could retire and hide from danger.
In a standard cage 40*40 instead of a laying it is possible to use hay, shavings or straw and also wood cat litter. The granulated wood filler perfectly absorbs liquid and eliminates a smell, and still guinea pigs gnaw it. It is undesirable to use small sawdust as they can get to a mumps into eyes and airways.
Features of feeding!
To feed guinea pigs quite easily, of course they will not suit food from your table, but their diet is quite simple. 2-3 times a day in certain time are better to feed the pet not to lead to development of diseases of digestive system. Experts consider the best forage for a guinea pig: wheat bran, oats, carrots and various grass in the summer, and in the winter hay. On an adult individual it is necessary: grass kilogram floor, or 60 g of hay; approximately 100gr vegetables and fruit plus grain or bran – gram 50 and is a little granulate - 10-20 gr.
Food has to contain by all means vitamin C about 5 mg as in the course of evolution the guinea pigs lost ability to its synthesis, and it not always contains in a stern. At a diet there have to be sunflower seeds, cereals, potatoes, vegetables, a grass, dandelions, salad, turnip, beet, cabbage, tomatoes, apples and hay. It is the best of all to give already ready forages which in assortment are available in pet-shops, but if all of you give with own hand prepared forage, then by all means adhere to the following proportions: rough fibers - 15%, crude proteins - 20% and animal protein - 4%, both hay and water in enough. Pregnant females should increase contents in a glucose stern.
Contraindicated!
Do not give to guinea pigs: the red cabbage, cheese, sausage, meat, eggs, sweets, immature or overripe fruit and berries and also which dampened, the mouldy, rotten or polluted forages, and scraps from your table. Do not change cardinally a diet to avoid disorder of digestion.