General Best Guinea pig food?

KMS hayloft or oxbow. small pet select I have heard is a pretty good one

Should I continue to use what I have or just get the new food now? I don't want to hurt them =(

What are you currently feeding him?

What are you feeding them?

Oh oops! Supreme Science Selective! Sorry! Thought I had put that in. ^^;

How old are they?

I have 6 total and I'd say the oldest 3 7-8 months, 2 are 5 months and the youngest no older then 4 months but then might be 3 months. =/ I do make sure they get a mix of Alfalfa and Timothy hay and fresh veggies twice a day every day. The list of veggies I check is from Happy Cavy!

Okay for the ones 6 months and younger the food its alfalfa based is fine however the ones older than that need a timothy based pellet

It won't hurt to feed all of them that food for another couple of months. But then I'd definitely switch to something lower in calcium. KMS has both low calcium and a calcium source other than limestone. Oxbow is dropping their limestone in favor of something else, but I don't know what or when.

They don't need both alfalfa hay and alfalfa pellets -- that's overdoing the calcium by quite a bit. If you want to finish the pellets, ditch the alfalfa hay.

Okay. I think I'm just going to switch them all over to the Small Pet Select Guinea food pellets as it doesn't have the dried beet pulp as a ingredient unless there's something else in there that's bad for them that I'm not seeing. =/ Here is what it has on the page.

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS

Crude Protein: Not Less Than 14.0% Crude Fat: Not Less Than 2.0% Crude Fiber: Not Less Than 25.0% Calcium: Not Less Than 0.4% Calcium: Not More than 0.6% Phosphorous: Not Less Than .25% Salt: Not Less Than .25% Salt: Not More than 0.75% Vitamin A: Not Less Than 8,650 IU/lb Vitamin D: Not Less Than 400 IU/lb Vitamin E: Not Less Than 86 IU/lb Vitamin C: Not Less Than 400 mg/lb

Ingredients: Timothy hay, soybean hulls, soybean meal, sodium bentonite, wheat middlings, molasses, calcium carbonate, lignin sulfonate, soybean oil, barley, salt, L-Ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate, zinc amino acid complex, manganese amino acid complex, copper amino acid complex, cobalt glucoheptonate, vitamin e supplement, choline chloride, manganese sulfate, niacin supplement, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, zinc sulfate, manganous oxide, yucca schidigera extract, zinc oxide, calcium pantothenate, folic acid, copper sulfate, vitamin b-12 supplement, vitamin A supplement, biotin, riboflavin supplement, vitamin d3 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, sodium selenite, thiamine mononitrate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin k activity), calcium iodate, selenium yeast, yeast culture, brewers dried yeast, dried saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermentation Solubles.

Not Less Than 25.0% Calcium: Not Less Than 0.4% Calcium

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Would you check those numbers again? Should that be "Not Less than .25% calcium?" And "Not More than .4% calcium?"

I copy and pasted, so that is as it say's on the packages =/

okay Calcium, no less then 0.4% and no more then 0.6%

OK, I see what's going on. Something must have gotten lost in the cut/paste. There should be semicolon to separate them, like this:

Crude Protein: Not Less Than 14.0%; Crude Fat: Not Less Than 2.0%; Crude Fiber: Not Less Than 25.0%; Calcium: Not Less Than 0.4%; Calcium: Not More than 0.6%; Phosphorous: Not Less Than .25%; Salt: Not Less Than .25%; Salt: Not More than 0.75%; Vitamin A: Not Less Than 8,650 IU/lb; Vitamin D: Not Less Than 400 IU/lb; Vitamin E: Not Less Than 86 IU/lb; Vitamin C: Not Less Than 400 mg/lb

That would make it clearer.

bpatters said:

OK, I see what's going on. Something must have gotten lost in the cut/paste. There should be semicolon to separate them, like this:

Crude Protein: Not Less Than 14.0%; Crude Fat: Not Less Than 2.0%; Crude Fiber: Not Less Than 25.0%; Calcium: Not Less Than 0.4%; Calcium: Not More than 0.6%; Phosphorous: Not Less Than .25%; Salt: Not Less Than .25%; Salt: Not More than 0.75%; Vitamin A: Not Less Than 8,650 IU/lb; Vitamin D: Not Less Than 400 IU/lb; Vitamin E: Not Less Than 86 IU/lb; Vitamin C: Not Less Than 400 mg/lb

That would make it clearer.

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lol yes, now I'm guessing this is really good right?

Yes, they're fine.