Oxbow Essentials
Adult Guinea Pig Food
Support your pet’s healthy, active lifestyle with Oxbow Essentials Adult Guinea Pig food. This premium daily diet utilizes purposeful, top-tier ingredients tailored specifically to support mature herbivores. By starting with a high-fiber Western Timothy hay baseline for pristine digestion, Oxbow adds prebiotics and vital stabilized Vitamin C to encourage complete, whole-body health with 100% of their daily recommended vitamins and minerals.
⚡ Ideal For: Adult Guinea Pigs over six months of age.
Product Features & Performance
• Oxbow EVERYBite Uniform Pellets: Every single serving delivers 100% complete, uniform nutrition. This completely eliminates unhealthy selective eating habits often caused by muesli and foraging mixes, ensuring no sorting or wasted nutrients.
• #1 Ingredient Timothy Hay: Crafted with premium high-fiber Timothy grass meal as the primary ingredient, intentionally selected to support robust gastrointestinal motility and natural digestive function.
• Essential Stabilized Vitamin C: Fortified with high-potency L-Ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate to safely secure your guinea pig's absolute daily requirement of stabilized Vitamin C, supporting vital systemic functions.
• True Clean Label Purity: Formulated under the direct guidance of top veterinarians and exotic animal nutritionists. Contains absolutely zero artificial colors, flavors, or synthetic preservatives just genuine, purposeful ingredients.
The Clean Ingredient Deck
Timothy Grass Meal, Soybean Hulls, Soybean Meal, Cane Molasses, Wheat Middlings, Sodium Bentonite, Soybean Oil, Salt, Lignin Sulfonate, L-Ascorbyl-2-Monophosphate (Vitamin C), Monocalcium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Yeast Culture, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Zinc Proteinate, Niacin, Copper Sulfate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Manganous Oxide, Riboflavin Supplement, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Magnesium Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Vitamin A Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Proteinate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium Iodate.
Guaranteed Analysis
Feeding Protocols
• Serving Requirements: Feed 1/8 cup of pellets daily to mature guinea pigs over six months of age. Always serve alongside an unrestricted supply of fresh grass hay (such as Oxbow's Western Timothy, Orchard, Oat, or Botanical varieties) to provide critical additional fiber lines.
*Dietary Note: This product is not intended for growing, active, pregnant, or nursing guinea pigs. Transition to Oxbow Essentials Young Guinea Pig Food during those life stages.
🔄 4-Week Diet Transition Plan
Week 1: Mix 3 parts current food with 1 part Essentials.
Week 2: Mix 2 parts current food with 2 parts Essentials.
Week 3: Mix 1 part current food with 3 parts Essentials.
Week 4: Feed Essentials Adult Guinea Pig food exclusively.
Feeding Note: Listed quantities serve as foundational guidelines. If your companion is tracking under or over target weight profiles, consult your exotics veterinarian to design custom portion allocations.