Burgess Excel Guinea Pig Blackcurrant & Oregano Nuggets – 1.5kg

Burgess Excel Guinea Pig Nuggets with Blackcurrant & Oregano – 1.5kg

A single-component nugget rather than a muesli, which is the whole point of it: a guinea pig given a mix will pick out the cereal and leave the fibre behind, and a uniform nugget makes that impossible. Grass meal leads the composition, with dried lucerne, wholegrain wheat and wholegrain maize behind it.

Vitamin C is declared at 1,050mg/kg. Guinea pigs are unusual among small pets in being unable to make their own and will develop scurvy without a dietary source, so that figure is the most important number on the bag. Beneficial fibre sits at 31% and crude protein at 17%.

Performance & Benefits

• Vitamin C declared at 1,050mg/kg, protected within the nugget.
• Beneficial fibre at 31%, with crude fibre at 15%.
• Single nugget format, so selective feeding is not physically possible.
• Grass meal is the first ingredient, ahead of the cereals.
• Short chain fructo-oligosaccharides at 0.25% as a prebiotic.
• Dried blackcurrant at 0.1% and dried oregano at 0.06% for palatability.

Suitable For

• Guinea pigs of all ages — Burgess place no age restriction on it.
• Households moving off a muesli mix that is being picked over.
• Feeding alongside unlimited hay and a daily handful of leafy greens.
• Owners who want the vitamin C level stated as a figure rather than implied.
• Rabbits do not need added vitamin C and belong on Burgess Excel Adult Rabbit Nuggets with Mint; equally, a guinea pig fed rabbit nuggets will be left short of vitamin C.

Feeding

• Feed a small measured portion of nuggets; hay or grass makes up the bulk of the diet and should be available at all times.
• Add a small handful of leafy greens each day.
• Fresh clean water constantly available.
• Change over from a muesli gradually, mixing the new food in across about a week.
• Burgess give their guidance as a five-step feeding plan rather than a grams-per-day table, so no fixed daily weight is quoted here.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: grass meal, wholegrain wheat, dried lucerne, wholegrain maize, soya bean hulls, oatfeed, soya bean meal feed dehulled, dried peas, wheat feed, dried beet pulp, yeast (brewer’s yeast and grains), minerals, soya oil, short chain fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS 0.25%), dried blackcurrant (0.1%), dried oregano (0.06%).
• Analytical constituents: beneficial fibre 31%, crude protein 17%, crude fat 4%, crude fibre 15%, crude ash 7.5%, calcium 0.8%, phosphorus 0.5%.
• Vitamin C 1,050mg/kg.
• Burgess state the soya ingredients are produced from genetically modified soya.
• Earlier copy on this page gave beneficial fibre as 36%. Burgess publish 31% for this recipe; their figure is used above. Sold in 1.5kg and 10kg.