Vitamin C in water?

You're best bet is to throw the bottle away. The drops degrade too quickly in water and can distort taste. They would do the same if you added them to the pellets. If he is eating a good variety of veggies, you don't need the drops at all.

I have vitamin C drops in the water, but I'll stop in a while, my girls are jsut getting used to everything and still a little weary about veggies and food. They drink the water nicly, I dont think they mind it, but if they are eating their veggies and food fine I dont think its needed.

I should have added that if they aren't eating veggies or very little veggies to get some plain chewable vitamin C tablets with <1 gram of sugar and give them approximately 25-50 mg a day or liquid C that can be dosed with a syringe in the same amount. Oxbow and health food stores carry plain vitamin C tablets.

Well he has no problem eating the veggies, he's a true little piggy, LOL. When I clean his bowl there is rarely a full veggie left, so I guess he's good on the Vitamin C, I'll clean out the waterbottle and start giving him regular water today.

The only time I've ever used the drops is when I've syringe-fed a poorly piggy with pureed food. The cooking degrades the Vit C, so I added some to the cooled mush. However, I wouldn't have bothered if it is was only for a few days - long term is a different matter.

I have vitamin C drops in the water, but I'll stop in a while, my girls are jsut getting used to everything and still a little weary about veggies and food. They drink the water nicly, I dont think they mind it, but if they are eating their veggies and food fine I dont think its needed.

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It doesn't matter if they are drinking it. In light the vit c won't even last a few hours so they aren't getting it anyway. The only way to keep vit c in water is to paint the bottle solid black and change it twice a day at least. If you don't store the bottle of vit c away from light and temperature changes the vit c won't even last in the bottle. When you buy it you don't even know how much of the vit c is still good.

Oreo never ate his veggies (Just like a kid... Figures.) and once I got Snickers now they can't get enough!

Sometimes they need a friend to show them how to eat!

Yeah seriously. Its just funny now that I have my new cage because before they were lathargic and hardly moved, now they skip across the cage and play all day.