Oxbow Essentials Cavy Performance Young Guinea Pig Food
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Feed your young Guinea Pig a diet that provides the essential fiber and nutrients needed to grow strong and healthy with Oxbow Essentials Cavy Performance Young Guinea Pig Food. Growing Guinea Pigs require more protein, calcium and energy than adults. And like adult Guinea Pigs, they need Vitamin C from their diet to stay healthy. Oxbow Essentials Cavy Performance Young Guinea Pig Food is specially designed to provide the high fiber, protein, calcium and energy required for young Guineas under six months to thrive. It is made with succulent alfalfa hay and a stabilized form of Vitamin C. Feed an unlimited supply of pellets daily with an unlimited supply of grass hay.
Key Benefits- Specially formulated to mirror a young Guinea Pig's natural diet. This will ensure that your pet lives a healthy lifestyle. Not recommended feed for adult Guinea Pigs
- Fortified with stabilized Vitamin C, help ensure that your pet's immunity system is in tip-top shape.
- Contains alfalfa to meet energy needs of young, pregnant, and nursing guinea pigs
- 75% of your guinea pig’s diet should be grass hay
- Made of high-quality, all natural hay
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Item Number95998
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Food FormPellets
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Small Pet TypeGuinea Pig
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Special DietHigh Fiber, High-Protein
Alfalfa Meal, Soybean Hulls, Wheat Middlings, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Salt, Lignin Sulfonate, Cane Molasses, L-Ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate (Vitamin C), Limestone, Yeast Culture (Dehydrated), Vitamin E Supplement, Choline Chloride, Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin, Copper Sulfate, Selenium Yeast, Vitamin A Supplement, Folic Acid, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Proteinate, Riboflavin Supplement, Manganese Proteinate, Biotin, Manganous Oxide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Magnesium Sulfate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Cobalt Carbonate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Calcium Iodate.
| Guaranteed Analysis | |
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| Crude Protein | 18.0% min |
| Crude Fat | 2.5% min |
| Crude Fiber | 18.0% min |
| Crude Fiber | 23.0% max |
| Moisture | 10.0% max |
| Calcium | 0.6% min |
| Calcium | 1.1% max |
| Phosphorus | 0.25% min |
| Vitamin A | 10,000 IU/kg min |
| Vitamin D | 900 IU/kg min |
| Vitamin E | 190 IU/kg min |
| Ascorbic Acid | 400 mg/kg min |
Growing (Under 6 Months): Unlimited pellets daily in addition to unlimited grass hay.
Pregnant/Nursing: Unlimited pellets daily in addition to unlimited grass hay. Alfalfa hay may be given in small quantities.
Please note that these are guidelines. For Adult guinea pig feeding guidelines or if your guinea pig is overweight or underweight, please contact your veterinarian or Oxbow for more specific feeding information.
Seventy - 5 percent of your guinea pig's diet should be grass hay. Oxbow offers a variety of hand - selected, high - fiber hays to enrich the life and health of your pet.
Transitioning to a New Food: Week 1, mix 3 parts current food with 1 part new food. Week 2, mix 2 parts current food with 2 parts new food. Week 3, mix 1 part current food with 3 parts new food. Week four, feed Essentials - Young Guinea Pig Food exclusively.
Oxbow's Flagship Line
Oxbow's Essentials line is the diet that set the bar for today's small pet nutrition. There's a unique food for a variety of small animals—chinchillas, guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, rats, hamsters and gerbils. These uniform pellets provide the right nutrients for each species with no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors.
Treats for Enrichment
In addition to their foods, Oxbow's healthy treats are rewarding for small animals and their owners. Simple Rewards are made with wholesome, natural ingredients like freeze-dried fruits and veggies, Timothy hay, and aromatic herbs. They're great for training, bonding or simply adding a little variety.
The Gold Standard of Small Pet Nutrition
An ideal small animal diet includes 20% fortified foods for herbivores and 75% for omnivores for essential vitamins and micronutrients. Oxbow's three fortified food lines are recommended by veterinarians worldwide because they're specially formulated to meet the unique needs of small animals—a true gold standard of nutrition.
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NATURAL SCIENCE: INDIVIDUALIZED NUTRITION
Adult guinea pigs and rabbits can benefit from individualized maintenance diets with novel ingredients for variety and long-strand fiber from three grass hays.
BENE TERRA: AWARD-WINNING ORGANIC FOOD
Gives rabbits and guinea pigs the nutrients they would find in their natural environment with ingredients that come from certified organic farmers.
About Oxbow
Family-owned and operated, Oxbow is passionately committed to helping small animals lead longer, healthier lives. Grown by experts on Oxbow's family of farms, their formulas and life-staged diets have defined the way small animals are fed today. From plant to pet, Oxbow products meet the highest standards time and time again.
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great product
By bk24 on Mar 5, 2021
we have been using this for our five piggies and they absolutely love it. Great food, I would really recommend it to people with young guinea piggies under 6 months old.
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Guinea Pig Food. Great for babies
By Hayy on Feb 1, 2021
Please use this brand if you are starting out with younglings. Even your local vet would want you to start on this. Even tho it is slightly expensive, your pigs will have such great health with this brand of pellets that it provides
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Piggy yumminess
By tdugans on Dec 29, 2020
My 2 young piggy boys loves this food. I like the small pellets and green color. Piggies go crazy for this food.
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Great product
By Gracie on Nov 7, 2020
I have 2-11 week old piggies. They have to have baby piggie food and this is perfect. The pieces are small enough for them to pick up and eat. I highly recommend.
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Great For Growth + Health
By Beachn on Aug 1, 2020
i bought this Oxbow after researching every Food my New Cavy which would be best = proven + highly rated + vet recommended...My cavy has eaten this YGP Oxbow Food since July 10th 2019 - Today August 2020 = my Cavy Is Healthy + Coat is Beautiful + Knight's Energy is real good definitely recommend. next ill go with Adult Oxbow thru Knight's Life. anyway, Great Buy, regards
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The piggies love it!
By DRJsPiggies on Aug 13, 2020
We get the 25lb bag. The guinea pigs love it. We haven’t had any issues with any of the bags we’ve gotten. It’s always fresh and keeps well in the resealable bag.
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My piggies loved these!
By Kelsey on Aug 10, 2020
My pigs devoured these pellets when they were young. Quality nutrition for growing piggies and a good price for the value
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Best pellet brand
By chihuahua1 on Jul 9, 2020
My boys love oxbow. Plain and simple diet the boys need, no other stuff like nuts, seeds, pretty pellets etc... Fresh bag at a wonderful price.
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Great product
By Wolfie on Jul 24, 2020
Great product I have young guinea pigs and was happy to find that they had a young food and my guinea pigs just love it
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Perfect for young piggies
By Macie on Jun 30, 2020
I have fed this to all of my young guinea pigs until they reached 1 year old then transitioned to the adult diet. They love it and are all healthy!
