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A Variety Of What?

A Variety of What? Grass is the natural food of guinea pigs, but grass comes in many nutritional stages meaning it has differing benefits too. The ancestors of our domesticated guinea pigs grazed on mature dry grasses. Popular and common advice is to ‘feed a variety of foods’ or ‘feed a varied diet’, but a [...]

November 30, 2009   Posted in: Ratewatchers  No Comments

What foods are excluded from the Ratewatchers’ Diet?

Ratewatchers is a Calcium to Phosphorus balanced diet, not about including and excluding any foodstuffs. By following the diet the urine will not be saturated with certain minerals, therefore maximising bladder health. However it should always be remembered that for manyВ  guineas maximising bladder health is all that can be done. In short, no foods [...]

November 5, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Frequently Asked Questions, Ratewatchers  No Comments

Ratewatchers D.I.Y. Diet

Ratewatchers D.I.Y. Diet has evolved out of the need for an easier way to feed a balanced diet for guinea pigs. The initial reason was to find a diet for Henry, who had already been through two bladderstone operations, the second of which was very ‘draining’ on him. We have looked at different ways of [...]

March 24, 2009   Posted in: Ratewatchers  No Comments

What Ratewatchers Isn’t…

Ratewatchers is at the start of its journey into investigating diet in guinea pigs. It is obvious to most that the correct diet for guinea pigs would be the one that nature created for them all those years ago, much like the climate that was given to them and can only be artificially created for [...]

March 13, 2009   Posted in: Ratewatchers  No Comments

Ratewatchers

After just over a year of looking at guinea pig diets from the piggy owning public we have yet to have had a Calcium high diet submitted. All have been Phosphorus high to different degrees, all have had the correct amount of vitamin C with the majority of the guinea pigs taking part getting twice [...]

January 5, 2009   Posted in: Ratewatchers  No Comments

Do I need to weigh food everyday?

After the initial weighing to familiarise yourself with the amount (ie so that you know what 10g of Dill looks like and 10g of carrot) it becomes second nature to ‘measure’ out food. This can only be likened to doing a health check. You wouldn’t dismiss that as being ‘too much like hard work’ because [...]

January 2, 2009   Posted in: Ratewatchers  No Comments