A Quick Question About Cabbage

[Midge&Panda]

As recently posted Midge has been a bit under the weather and is now a bit uncomfortable while peeing. One veg that she positively loves is sweetheart cabbage so she's been having rather a lot to increase her food intake. I can find the calcium levels (guinealynx) for most cabbage but not this type. Does anybody know what the calcium content is and whether it's suitable for 'bladder' piggies. Thanks.

 

[Jerrybelly]

I THINK (though I really can't be certain) that I read somewhere that sweetheart cabbage is slightly lower in calcium than some of the others (particularly kale), but all cabbage is still relatively high in calcium. I don't feed my bladder piggy any cabbage, but I understand your difficulties if you're trying to improve her food intake.

 

[TAN]

Does she like broccoli - this is a good one (I have a kidney stone and sludgey bladder pg - vetcare multimodal food is low in calcium and really helps to stop the squeeking when weeing - syringe feeding extra water or giving extra cucumber will help )

 

[Midge&Panda]

Not as much as cabbage . I went to a different vets to pick up a large pack of cc and brought the multimodal. It makes a lovely place to go toilet on. Strangely the cucumbers not going down as well as normal. Piggies can be soooo annoying at times.

 

[Janey]

celery is low in calcium (I think?) as an alternative to cucumber and has a high water content. I cut mine up into small pieces to avoid problems with the stringy bits!

 

[BossHogg]

Both my rabbits and piggies fight over celery as they all love it.