Anyone else have a problem with Pets at Home hay?

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My last few bags of hay bought from PAH have been so dusty and damp - anyone else had this problem?

I've got an albino guinea pig who kept getting eye trouble - loads of trips to the vet - anti-biotics for a possible cold, eye drops for possible eye infection...sneezing etc etc....then I thought I'd buy some lovely fresh meadow hay (more expensive) and he's fine! The PAH hay is so dusty that the vet now thinks its too dusty for him and his eyes and although fine with my other pigs he has to stay on meadow hay now. Also I keep getting bags of hay that are damp inside. I've got two bags to take back - so annoying.

I have pets at home hay and it's awful!
I have three piggies and one of them got some of the hay stuck in her eye. It caused her eye to go all cloudy and blue, me and my mum thought that she was going blind or somthing so we decided that we had to take her to the vet. I thought that it couldn't be a cataract as it had just suddenly gone blue, and a cataract can take months even years to form.

I've had two trips to the vets so far and have another apointment on friday! We got eye drops from the vet and their fab, (her eyes almost all clear now, and you can't tell which is the infected eye.)

Has anyone noticed that on the back of the pets at home hay bag it says it's dust extracted... well what a load of rubbish, it's full of dust!

Although that my other two guinea pigs have had no problems, i'm not prepared to take the risk of another £40.00 vet bill, and switching to another brand of hay!

Just took Roxy to the vets and we don't need to go again now thank god! When we found out about the problem with her eye at first she had to go in another cage with no hay or woodshavings so no dust would get in her eye, in order for it to heal. But now she's back with Bubbles and Poppy in her hutch!

Im just wondering does anyone have any experience with joining another female guinea pig in with two adults, as Poppy is new and we've sectioned off a bit of the hutch for Poppy to live in at the moment so that Bubbles and Roxy get used to her, but I don't want them to end up fighting and hurt eachother or worse end up killing Poppy. I don't have any experience in this because i've never done this before.

PS: They're fine on the bed or out on the floor with eachother it's just inside a cage or hutch

Kait x

Oh! and does anyone know a farmer that supplies hay as, i'm not going to get it from Pets at Home anymore, (it's too dusty and bitty)

Kait...if you look at my profile there is a thread I'm on to do with guineas...its a current thread and there's loads of MNrs who post on there with loads of experience with guineas...if you post on there I'm sure someone would be able to help you with your latest post on this thread.

hey... i read a veterinary article recently that was written by a small furry expert and it said that you can feed rabbits haylage. But i am trying to find out whether you can feed guinea pigs it??
esp with the hay, even from bales, i have had a few mite infestations. Where as haylage i wouldnt get this.

has anyone actually tried to feed haylage to their pigs??