Medications Would these Vitamin-C drops be good for guinea pigs?

GuineaPiggiez · Oct 12, 2012

Hey guys!

My guinea pigs are all healthy right now, but I was just wondering if these drops would be good for them, or if they're just unnecessary.

The product that I was looking at, Oasis Vita-Drops for Guinea Pigs, says that you're supposed to just put 2 drops of this in your piggies' water bottle every day to give them the Vitamin C and other Vitamins that they need. But wouldn't the Vitamin C "go away" by the time they drank all of it? I give my guinea piggies lots of fresh veggies every day, but would this be a good idea to give them too, or am i just paranoid? Lol. Here's the link to the product:

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Also, is "Medications" the right prefix for this thread? Is this were I should be posting threads like these? Because this isn't about an urgent medical problem with my guinea pigs, but it's still about medicine/vitamins... I'm just making sure I'm not doing anything wrong!

Thanks,
GuineaPiggiez

Coconut4536 · Oct 12, 2012

i use them because when i got my piggie she wasnt eating as much soo my vet gave her special food with the vitadrops and she got back to normal
my piggie liked them soo i liked them to .

bpatters · Oct 12, 2012

You're absolutely right about the vitamin C in the water -- it's useless. Oasis Vita Drops is interested in nothing more than selling more Oasis Vita Drops, so you can pretty much discount what they say about how to give it.

If your pigs are getting a good vegetable diet, you don't have to worry about supplementing vitamin C. What are you feeding them?

And this is a good thread to post this in.

Lord_aperture · Oct 12, 2012

Those drops are not good for them at all, read why here. https://www.guineapigcages.com/foru...tamin-c-drops-water-can-i-put-tang-water.html

GuineaPiggiez · Oct 12, 2012

bpatters said:
You're absolutely right about the vitamin C in the water -- it's useless. Oasis Vita Drops is interested in nothing more than selling more Oasis Vita Drops, so you can pretty much discount what they say about how to give it.

If your pigs are getting a good vegetable diet, you don't have to worry about supplementing vitamin C. What are you feeding them?

And this is a good thread to post this in.

I feed them lots of carrots (about half of a big carrot each, every day), romaine lettuce, and (only every couple of days, because they are high in sugar) raisins. I also feed them other piggie-safe veggies and fruits whenever we have them in the house. Some of the other fruits and veggies we have right now are bell peppers, tomatoes, raspberries, and strawberries. They are also fed timothy hay pellets and unlimited timothy hay.

RodentCuddles · Oct 12, 2012

GuineaPiggiez said:
I feed them lots of carrots (about half of a big carrot each, every day), romaine lettuce, and (only every couple of days, because they are high in sugar) raisins. I also feed them other piggie-safe veggies and fruits whenever we have them in the house. Some of the other fruits and veggies we have right now are bell peppers, tomatoes, raspberries, and strawberries. They are also fed timothy hay pellets and unlimited timothy hay.

Just be careful, carrots are very high in calcium and some pigs have troubles with the calcium in romaine lettuce.

For a staple each day it's a good idea to feed red or green leaf lettuce and green bell peppers.

GuineaPiggiez · Oct 13, 2012

RodentCuddles said:
Just be careful, carrots are very high in calcium and some pigs have troubles with the calcium in romaine lettuce.

For a staple each day it's a good idea to feed red or green leaf lettuce and green bell peppers.

Ok. They don't seem to be having trouble with their calcium intake right now, but thanks, I'll be more careful and feed them a little bit less carrots now. I'll also get some more bell peppers.

bpatters · Oct 13, 2012

Timothy hay pellets are generally held together with molasses and have too much sugar to be fed regularly to guinea pigs. They're ok as an occasional treat, or if you can find the ones that are just baked together without a sugar binder, they can be fed a bit more often. Fruit also is an occasional treat. a little bit once or twice a week.

The problem with carrots isn't calcium, but excess vitamin A.

GuineaPiggiez · Oct 13, 2012

bpatters said:
Timothy hay pellets are generally held together with molasses and have too much sugar to be fed regularly to guinea pigs. They're ok as an occasional treat, or if you can find the ones that are just baked together without a sugar binder, they can be fed a bit more often. Fruit also is an occasional treat. a little bit once or twice a week.

The problem with carrots isn't calcium, but excess vitamin A.

Oh, I'm so confused! I meant timothy hay pellets as their guinea pig food, not one of their treats. The guinea pig food I get isn't held together with a sugar binder.

And I know that fruits are only occasional treats, I have only fed them two berries each so far this week.

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