Open Grazed Method:

Advantages:
- No need to look for grass or green stock for cavies.
- Cavies develop fast as there is always adequate amount of grass available to maintain their high metabolic rate.
- Wider genetic variations as each male has space to mate without the threat of the dominant one.
- Has a therapeutic effect by seeing them on your lawn grazing.
- Less screeching, once there is grass and pellets you will rarely hear them screech.
- They grow bigger. They get the exercise as they traverse between shed and lawn.
- Requires no attention.
- Low mortality rate caused by starvation.
Disadvantages:
- Exposure to predators such as dogs and cats. Dogs prey on the adults and cats prey on the offspring.
- They grazes the lawn to earth. They pull even the root of the grass out of the soil leaving it exposed to erosion.
- During wet weather they carries a pungent smell that will only go away once the area is exposed to a few hours of sun.
- If the lawn is grazed to the finish they will follow the green grass which will lead them beyond the lawn if there is no borders to stop them.
- They drink water slower leaving the water container high risk for mosquito breeding. Unless a bottle can be implemented.
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