Horse wood pellets for giunea pig bedding?

[Undecided]

Rio is on Blue Ribbon wood pellets which absolutely love, have been looking to change the pigs bedding from shaving as he kicks them all over my bedroom and was wondering if the wood pellets are safe for him regarding smell/chemicals?

 

[jrp204]

Don't see why not, we use them for the ferrets and chicks, obviously not in the same pen!! Or it would be ferrets and very briefly chicks.

 

[Paint Me Proud]

Don't see why not, we use them for the ferrets and chicks, obviously not in the same pen!! Or it would be ferrets and very briefly chicks.

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I use them for the bottom of my parrot cage, they are made from same thing as shavings, wood, so dont see why they cant be used in any situation you may use shavings.

 

[Highlands]

Use it for hamsters!

 

[threeponies]

I use them for our guinea pigs, occasionally I mix a few handfuls of shavings through to make it look fluffy but that's for me, not them

 

[Toffee44]

I have used them on guineas

 

[Undecided]

So they're not harmful? Thanks guys, I like shavings but he kicks up such a fuss and he pees in the same corner as where his bottle is so that bit is soaked as soon as I put the cage back after cleaning! Love the smell ofy wood pellets!

 

[Toffee44]

I found it helped keep nails short to.

 

[DreamingIsBelieving]

What wood is it made out of? Pine can be poisonous to guinea pigs due to the fumes it releases. Kiln-dried pine is okay though.

 

[Undecided]

Not sure of the top of my head, will check.

 

[Alaadin]

If it's pine then no. But otherwise as long as they're not sharp or rough then yes. I use a layer of easibed as the first layer of my guinea pigs bedding, which is wood pellets