Pure Timothy Pellets

If you guys remember, we mentioned before about Princess Club Corp. selling pure timothy pellets. We had no idea what the ingredients were until we asked, and they replied to us that it's pure timothy in pellet form. So we looked it up to see if there are any information about feeding us pure grass pellets, even if it's originally meant for horses and boom! We stumbled upon this brand with the exact same information about the pure timothy pellets. What we found was this.

It all sounds nice, but one thing that makes us wonder; is it okay for us to consume it for the rest of our life? We piggies need more than just hay. Vitamin C wouldn't be a problem if we get it from our veggies everyday, syringe feeding us ascorbic acid be great too (just take it slow when starting). But what about our other vitamins? We have no idea what's really essential for us, so we compare analysis' from Hagen, Standlee, and the famous Oxbow, and KMS:

Standlee Timothy Pellets

Protein - Not Less Than 8%
Crude Fiber - Not More Than 35%Moisture - Not More Than 12% 

Crude Fat - Not Less Than 1.8% 

KMS Timothy Pellets

Crude Protein - (min)   14.00 %    
Crude Fat - (min)   2.5 %    
Crude Fiber - (min)   20.00 %    
Crude Fiber - (max)   25.00 %    
Vitamin A - (IU/KG)   30,000    
Vitamin D-3 - (ICU/KG)   1,000    
Vitamin C - (mg/kg)   1,000    
Calcium - (min)   0.7    
Phosphorus - (min)   0.4

Oxbow Cavy Cuisine

Crude Protein - min 14.00% 

Crude Fat - min 1.50% 
Crude Fiber - min 25.00% 
Crude Fiber - max 28.00% 
Calcium - min 0.35% 
Calcium - max 0.85% 
Phosphorus - min 0.25% 
Salt - min 0.50% 
Salt - max 1.00% 
Vitamin A, IU/lb min 13,000 
Vitamin C, mg/lb min 200

Hagen Guinea Pig Pellets

Protein - 18%

Oils and Fats - 2.5%

Fibre - 13%

Moisture - 12%

and so on..

So what does this tell us? We don't know, but we're sure that we need lots of fiber. Vitamins are also important stuff. We've noticed that out of the four pellets, the horse pellets have more fiber and less fats. Seems legit.

The timothy pellets sounds like they're worth a try! The only reasons why it's not recommended to feed piggies food meant for other animals is because of the nutritional needs. Sometimes feeds have toxic medicines in them, like some rabbit pellets, those could contain antibiotics which could be toxic to us. Pellets aren't even that important, it should be treated more of like a supplement while everything else needed is balanced out with veggies, or even better, fresh grass.

Unless we're completely convinced, why not? It's pure grass hay. All we have to do is balance all the vitamins we usually get in pellets with veggies. Plus the sun, we piggies need our vitamin D! So there, if only we're really convinced, we shall soon have these babies in our little piggy paws... I mean mouth.

Vitakraft Meadow Hay Review!

We didn't expect to get two new piggy products on the same day; we knew about the Carefresh, but the hay caught us by surprise. Feels just like Christmas... So we got this hay from Princess Club Corp., same people who sold us long stalked timothy hay. We received a text message about PCC having meadow/natural hay from Belgium, at first we thought it was the Versele-Laga type, turns out we have Vitakraft.

Knowing Vitakraft's product line filled with not so good guinea food and treats, we had low expectations when we saw the brand name "Vitakraft" on our bag of hay. Vitakraft sells a lot of hay varieties, the one we have is meadow hay, we have a feeling that it's hay possibly from the meadows. In the packaging it says that Vitakraft hay is taken from the Alpine mountains, sounds delicious. 

  

Surprisingly, it's not that bad compared to all the other hays we've had, this is by far the best. It's very stringy, soft, and more green compared to natural hay, which was getting dustier, more yellow, and became harder every time we purchased a new pack. Our PCC timothy hay smelled the strongest, it was really hard and stalky, and talk about dusty. We're not sure if dusty is the right word, but the leaves were falling off, crumbling, and it eventually turned into powder. Vitakraft hay smells like rasins, and it's really not that strong or dusty like, we had to bury our face in it to figure out what to compare the smell with. If we can recall, Natural Hay smelled musky, and our PCC hay didn't smell bad but it was just really strong, like dried strawberries right in your face.

It's also cheap, P250 per pack, each pack weighs 1kg. It's very light (if you're human), but we feel like our hay is going to last us for... a month. Two months since we bought two. No, we have a feeling it's going to last us probably more than that. We're too lazy to compute on what's more economical to buy. We're guessing that if you want more hay for less, go with Versele-Laga, but if you want a tiny bit more quality, go with Vitakraft. Versele-Laga isn't really low quality hay, we remember loving that stuff! The ones we've previously bought must be an old stock that's been sitting in the pet store for months, or even years. It all depends... Personally, we like buying or trying out different brands as long as they're piggy safe, it makes life fun.

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Timothy pellets!

We keep getting text messages from PCC about their new items for sale. Not that we're complaining. PCC's selling timothy pellets for P150 per 500 grams. Minimum order is five packs, but if you're interested in buying less than that, you could go buy it at their place, where? We don't know. Go ask. They're in Facebook and Sulit.

The pellets are from USA, the brand is called ASI Pellet, Ripon USA. We looked it up and we can't find enough information about it. All we know is that it's marketed for horses. Unless we know about the ingredients, we're staying skeptical. We know that it doesn't have vitamin C, but that could easily be supplemented by Lemon Cee, fresh grass, and veggies. We're just worried about the added vitamins and probably anti-biotics or whatevers mixed in it. Anyone willing to try it out, please do share info about it! Wheek.