fridzalone
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So several years ago, I asked Ly about which pellet that acceptable as guinea pig food because Oxbow is very rare in Indonesia. And Ly told me to use CP Diet 086 because it's safer than any other pellets that I found (this thread : https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/diet-nutrition/46227-vitakraft-vita-verde-hay.html). And after that, everytime I found new guinea pig food, I always ask here just in case I can found the better one, but it seems like CP Diet 086 is still the best ones.
Lately, there's rumor that CP Diet is not produced anymore, and to make sure, I contacted Perfect Companion that made CP Diet via email, and he said it's true that CP Diet is not produced anymore, but it's only labelled with different name : Nova Rabbit Food. He said that both pellets still contains same ingredients. But when I checked, Nova's ingredient's are so much different with CP Diet. Here's the ingredients for Nova :
And here's the ingredients for CP Diet :
I already asked why Nova and CP Diet ingredients are different, and he said :
"We would like to confirm to you that our food in Nova is the same with CP Diet 086. However, the reason that the nutrition value and ingredients is quiet different from each other, because Brand Nova have sold in many countries and we have to break down the ingredient and nutrition to fit with the regulation of individual country, also update ingredient and nutrition value."
I don't quite understand why he keep saying that both pellets are same. But, I'm not sure if I can use it anymore because in Nova there are BHA/BHT, sodium bisulfate (I'm not sure if it's the same with sodium metabisulfate), and I'm not sure which are other ingredients that safe for my pigs.
I already asked for another product's ingredients (SmartHeart for Rodents and SmartHeart for Hamster) because I see guinea pig picture in the cover, just in case they have better ingredients. But there's no reply from him anymore.
So now, I'm confused which product should I use. Oxbow's already available in my country, but not all guinea pig owners are able to buy them because the price is soooo expensive. The price is Rp. 172,000 or $18.92 USD for 2.25 kg pack and Rp. 285,000 or $31.35 USD for 4.5 kg pack. Just as comparison : people who have enough money in here only spend $ 2.2 USD/meal, while the others can only spend $ 1.1 USD/meal. So, I don't think asked them all to change their guinea pig food into oxbow is a wise option.
Is Nova pellet still acceptable? Is there any other pellets that I can give? Maybe you can check my threads about others guinea pig food's ingredients to help me solve this problem :
https://www.guineapigcages.com/foru...itakraft-emotion-beauty-guinea-pigs-good.html (still unavailable)
https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/diet-nutrition/50941-premium-pellet-guinea-pig-rabbit.html
https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/diet-nutrition/61474-gold-blend-pellet.html
https://www.guineapigcages.com/foru...eme-diet-guinea-pig-c-p-diet-086-rodents.htmlThere are another guinea pig foods, but all of them contains seeds so I don't put it here. I'm really looking forward for your help..
Lately, there's rumor that CP Diet is not produced anymore, and to make sure, I contacted Perfect Companion that made CP Diet via email, and he said it's true that CP Diet is not produced anymore, but it's only labelled with different name : Nova Rabbit Food. He said that both pellets still contains same ingredients. But when I checked, Nova's ingredient's are so much different with CP Diet. Here's the ingredients for Nova :
And here's the ingredients for CP Diet :
I already asked why Nova and CP Diet ingredients are different, and he said :
"We would like to confirm to you that our food in Nova is the same with CP Diet 086. However, the reason that the nutrition value and ingredients is quiet different from each other, because Brand Nova have sold in many countries and we have to break down the ingredient and nutrition to fit with the regulation of individual country, also update ingredient and nutrition value."
I don't quite understand why he keep saying that both pellets are same. But, I'm not sure if I can use it anymore because in Nova there are BHA/BHT, sodium bisulfate (I'm not sure if it's the same with sodium metabisulfate), and I'm not sure which are other ingredients that safe for my pigs.
I already asked for another product's ingredients (SmartHeart for Rodents and SmartHeart for Hamster) because I see guinea pig picture in the cover, just in case they have better ingredients. But there's no reply from him anymore.
So now, I'm confused which product should I use. Oxbow's already available in my country, but not all guinea pig owners are able to buy them because the price is soooo expensive. The price is Rp. 172,000 or $18.92 USD for 2.25 kg pack and Rp. 285,000 or $31.35 USD for 4.5 kg pack. Just as comparison : people who have enough money in here only spend $ 2.2 USD/meal, while the others can only spend $ 1.1 USD/meal. So, I don't think asked them all to change their guinea pig food into oxbow is a wise option.
Is Nova pellet still acceptable? Is there any other pellets that I can give? Maybe you can check my threads about others guinea pig food's ingredients to help me solve this problem :
https://www.guineapigcages.com/foru...itakraft-emotion-beauty-guinea-pigs-good.html (still unavailable)
https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/diet-nutrition/50941-premium-pellet-guinea-pig-rabbit.html
https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/diet-nutrition/61474-gold-blend-pellet.html
https://www.guineapigcages.com/foru...eme-diet-guinea-pig-c-p-diet-086-rodents.htmlThere are another guinea pig foods, but all of them contains seeds so I don't put it here. I'm really looking forward for your help..
