Adopting Diet problem housing baby with adult

[CharmeC]

I am sure this is a common question, but for some reason I wasn't able to find helpful info on Google. A friend of mine has a one year old boar who is lazy and overweight. She will be adopting an one month old baby to keep him company soon, hopefully the baby will encourage the adult to become more active.

However we are worried about their diet. The baby will have to be fed alfafa-based pellet. If they're housed together, what is to prevent the older pig from eating the alfafa-based pellet too instead of his own timothy-based pellet? He's already fat enough :S

 

[luvmycavies]

You could seperate them when feeding the pellets. Maybe the baby can have floortime or laptime seprately from the other and have pellets then? When fed veggies they can be together?

 

[PiggiePaws]

You don't have to feed alfalfa pellets.

You can just supplement with alfalfa hay or veggies high in calcium, then you can just feed that during laptime. It would probably be easier to feed veggies by hand than seperating them to feed pellets.

 

[LightningPig1]

What my friends (they are actually the ones who told me about guineapigages.com) do is they have two piggys, one adult(sow) and one baby(sow). The adult is a fatter pig because they had a problem with her eating the baby's food. So temporarily, at feeding time they would connect 3 grids with the cage ( so that it would make a square next to the cage) temporarily while it's still eating and maybe have it in there for 45 min MAX so that it can eat all of it's food (or most of it) and then put her back into the cage.

 

[Ly&Pigs]

You don't have to feed alfalfa pellets.

You can just supplement with alfalfa hay or veggies high in calcium, then you can just feed that during laptime. It would probably be easier to feed veggies by hand than seperating them to feed pellets.

Ditto and this is by far the best of the options. Don't divide the cage to feed or feed pellets at separate times. Just feed timothy based pellets and supplement with either alfalfa hay during floortime or give veggies higher in calcium every couple of days to the young pig.

 

[Texas Rustlers]

Feed them both Timothy Pellets, we have done this for a while now because of the risk of calcium stones in adults