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| What is the staple food you feed your degu? |
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11% |
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| Guinea Pig Pellets |
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33% |
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| Guinea Pig Mix (such as Gerty Guinea Pig) |
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11% |
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| Pre-made degu food (such as vitakraft) |
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44% |
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amethystbelle
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: What do you feed? |
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As the title asks what do you feed your degu? If it is more than one of the options or something else entirely then please stipulate what other foods you feed as their main staple diet...
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amethystbelle
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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I feed a mixture of guinea pig pellets and guinea pig mix, normally 50/50. I also occasionally give them a little pre-made degu mix but only as a treat 
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Aspets
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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I didnt really know what to vote.
I did give mine 70% g/pig with 30% chin pellets until i saw your post
saying chin pellets werent that good for them.
But i cant find any g/pig pellets that are small enough for them
Mine sometimes get the pre packed degu food as well but they do waste
a lot of that.
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amethystbelle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately there isn't a more than one voting option so i had to base it on what people feed as the majority 
Chin pellets aren't all that bad its just a lot of them contain high levels of mollasses which aren't all that good for degus. Pets at home pellets are mollasses free and i have given them to my boys in the past for a change. The Burgess Super guinea excel pellets are suitable for degus (used to say so on the packaging but not sure if it still does now) and they go down well here
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Kandy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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I feed my degus 50/50 guinea pig and chin pellets. The chin food I feed is Mazuri and mollasses isn't a main ingredient but cane mollasses is 8th on the list of ingredients. I've never checked the mollasses thread but I'm going to do that now, thanks for the heads up . My degus *always* dig through their new food and eat the chin food first. Their Gpig pellets are Oxbow.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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I feed my boys a 50/50 mix of Oxbow Chinchilla Deluxe and Oxbow Cavy Cuisine. |
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amethystbelle
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: |
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It is interesting to see what foods are available worldwide for degus, i'm currently compiling a list broken down into key countries that i hope to have up in the next few weeks of degu safe foods available worldwide
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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I feed JR degu food, available Here but I mix it with the Burgess Guinea Pig Pellets to try and ensure they get a properly balanced diet, as they are a bit fussy with the JR food. They prefer the 'Special' the slightly more expensive one.
I read the packet of Gerty Guinea the other day and the list of ingredients definitely included 'sugars' so I decided to steer clear of it. |
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amethystbelle
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Hanlou wrote: |
I feed JR degu food, available Here but I mix it with the Burgess Guinea Pig Pellets to try and ensure they get a properly balanced diet, as they are a bit fussy with the JR food. They prefer the 'Special' the slightly more expensive one.
I read the packet of Gerty Guinea the other day and the list of ingredients definitely included 'sugars' so I decided to steer clear of it. |
Sugar really? I have a bag in front of me (i use it as part of a mix) and i can't seen anything remotely sugary related in it or any added sugar  I will however keep my eye out as manufacturers often chance foods without it being mentioned so i always tend to check the ingredients before restocking foods it comes natural now i even do it with my own food 
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:26 am Post subject: |
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I'm looking to aquire my first pair of Degus soon. We have guinea pigs, and try to keep them on oxbow cavy cuisine. Is that a good for the Degus as well? |
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amethystbelle
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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I'm in the process as the moment of putting together a list of degu safe foods around the world. I've just checked my list and Oxbow Cavy cuisine looks like its not suitable as it contains Cane mollasses which aren't good for degus so its best not to use this food for degus
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Currently mine are on a mix of pets at home guinea pig nuggets and museli which is fine as my pigs are on the museli anyway. My chins are on the pets at home pellets so would this be ok to give to the degu's ever now and then for a change? |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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I would check the muesi as i used to buy it occasionally but the last time i went to get a bag i checked the ingredients and they had changed them to include sugar so it might be worth while checking to see. They can also have the P@H chinchilla pellets too as unlike most of the other chin pellets they don't contain mollasses or sugar so are degu safe mine all get them for a change from the supa guinea excel
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Mine are fed on supa guinea excel (would say its the main staple of their diet) and Gerty Guinea Pig with lots of hay |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Mine are fed on JR Farms Special ready made Degu food, my babies love it. If, and I say if, there is ever any left over the next morning, it's only the grass/hay kind of stuff in it, all the rest is completely gone. |
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