Guinea Pig Food Problem

[zQ]

Hey guys..

I face a problem of guinea pig food being infested with worms/weevils and other insects in its package.. I buy the grain mixture kind..

Is there any way i can prevent this problem coz those creatures are icky to handle..

I've searched the forum for posts during the last 300 days using "worm" and "weevil" but couldn't find anything relevant..

Can somebody help me out here?

Thanks in advance!

[peewee]

What do you mean 'grain mixture' kind? The type with diff seeds? Its not advisable to feed these to gps as the hulls could choke them. the pellet kinds are better. anw, i do feed the 'grain mixture' kind to my hamsters and i encountered the weevils before. what i usually do is to sieve the whole packet through a colander to remove the dust and wadeva insects inside...

[piggywiggymel]

Hmm..never encountered such a thing. I used to feed my pigs with VitaKraft's guinea pig mix, but found no weevils or worms inside. It's honestly inadvisable to feed the food to your piggies, for who knows how contaminated the food is already? Your piggies might get sick and a vet's bill is gonna come up to more than the cost of a packet of food; and what if your guinea pig doesn't survive the ordeal? Peewee is right, pellets are generally better and healthier. Try Oxbow's Cavy Cuisine or Cavy Performance, depending on the age of your piggies. For more info, go to
cyberpiggies.cjb.net.

[zQ]

yup that's the kind i'm referring to.. i tot more variety then healthier.. thanks for the advices peewee and piggywiggymel!

[Joyce]

I use mixes too. But I mix it in small volumes together with the oxbow pellets. Anyway guinea pig mixes shouldn't contain seeds. I'm using Prestige Premium Cavia Nature, and other than some hay bits, pellets, flattened peas and corn, it's mostly those biscuit kind of food.

I also think that it's good to give them a little variety, but since your packet of food is already infested with weevils, yeah, dump it.