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Claire5012

Claire5012

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I've had my 2 boys for a year and a half and just under a year. When I purchase hay for them I always select the greenest of bags that i can find. Several months ago i selected a bag of alfalfa king hay that was a little courser than usual (sorry boys) it was not much appreciated although they did manage to get through the bag eventually. Recently I bought a bag of burgess dandelion and marigold (they always have a variety of 3 different hays each day). When I opened it, I realised that it was a lot courser than I had 1st thought. I thought here we go, another bag of hay they're not going to go mad on. They love it! Also the little darlings have always loved their spring greens. Now all of a sudden neither 1 will touch them. Good timing Frodo and Dexter! I've got a fridge full of them :mal:
 
Claire5012 said:
I've had my 2 boys for a year and a half and just under a year. When I purchase hay for them I always select the greenest of bags that i can find. Several months ago i selected a bag of alfalfa king hay that was a little courser than usual (sorry boys) it was not much appreciated although they did manage to get through the bag eventually. Recently I bought a bag of burgess dandelion and marigold (they always have a variety of 3 different hays each day). When I opened it, I realised that it was a lot courser than I had 1st thought. I thought here we go, another bag of hay they're not going to go mad on. They love it! Also the little darlings have always loved their spring greens. Now all of a sudden neither 1 will touch them. Good timing Frodo and Dexter! I've got a fridge full of them :mal:
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Mine have been off spring greens for ages but have just decided today that they are acceptable again!
 
Ugh... I hope that doesn't happen in this household. I love pretty much all veggies but I'm afraid the kale would be destined for the bin :no:
 
Theo has a funny narrow pointy nose and he's recently decided that wider lettuce leaves are too much trouble as he has to hold then down with his paws. So he's just thrown all the leaves wider than his nose on the floor and decided to eat only the red chard and narrowest pepper slices then wheek for for food... or maybe he's just wheeking for cutlery to chop it up with?
 
PigglePuggle said:
Theo has a funny narrow pointy nose and he's recently decided that wider lettuce leaves are too much trouble as he has to hold then down with his paws. So he's just thrown all the leaves wider than his nose on the floor and decided to eat only the red chard and narrowest pepper slices then wheek for for food... or maybe he's just wheeking for cutlery to chop it up with?
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Fussy Theo! Mine just chomp everything that gets chucked in their general direction!
 
Comet went on and off food like we get colds. He went through a phase at one point of loving spinach leaves, but ONLY if the stalk was facing him. He wouldn't eat it from the leaf first. There'd be a leaf lying in front of him and he wouldn't touch it, so I'd turn it around, and BOOM, it was no longer poisonous! Thank goodness Blitzen ate 95% of what you put in front of them...

As for hay, I was lucky. I only ever gave them two types of hay and they adored them both. Comet might go off pretty much anything else, but god help anyone who got between him and his hay :))

And as for the gay, he never went off that. They both loved Queen. And classical music! But, mostly Queen.
 
Mine are being little terrors at the mo. All the things they usually eat (except peppers and little gem lettuce) are no longer acceptable and will not be tolerated even tho they’ve eaten them all for the last 4 months 🤦🏼‍♀️ Going mad trying to find them veggies to eat
 
Theo just threw all the flowery ends of the expensive babystem broccolli on the floor. Just wants the stems. No broccolli looking bits at all. Then he collapsed the castle house ramp leaving Jezzy floof stranded on the ramparts where she couldnt get to the broccolli he didnt want...
 
Oh poor Jezzy floof hope she managed to get to the brocolli bits in the end. If nopig wants them tell Theo to throw all the nice flowery brocolli this way my lot will eat it.:)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Theo just threw all the flowery ends of the expensive babystem broccolli on the floor. Just wants the stems. No broccolli looking bits at all. Then he collapsed the castle house ramp leaving Jezzy floof stranded on the ramparts where she couldnt get to the broccolli he didnt want...
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Men, eh?
 
A 7 inch drop onto padded fleece didnt stop a hungry floof for long, she hurled herself off the castle house roof into the discarded broccoli :) then I went to take the food bowls out and add some hay and I thought Jezzy was in the hay cube, until her cheeky floof face popped out somewhere else- it was Blod in the haycube! Blodwen is big enough now that she looks like Jezzy from behind if she's "squished" into a rabbit size haycube :)
A couple of months ago I remember Blod squeezing in the haycube and a fleecy tunnel next to Jezzy, no chance of that now!
 
It’s always fun reading about everyone’s piggies’ quirks.
They are such characters.
Jemimah suddenly discovered that she does like green pepper now even though it was rejected for years.
It’s only because Priscilla and Phoebe tucked into the green pepper I gave them , it being the only pepper left.
 
Merab's Slave said:
It’s always fun reading about everyone’s piggies’ quirks.
They are such characters.
Jemimah suddenly discovered that she does like green pepper now even though it was rejected for years.
It’s only because Priscilla and Phoebe tucked into the green pepper I gave them , it being the only pepper left.
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I remember C & B refusing to eat spring greens til I ate them instead. We couldn't have me eating their precious dinner, right?
 
Mine, until the spring greens recently, had never gone off anything previously enjoyed. Last night, however, Frodo and Dexter informed me that they didn't want the yellow pepper anymore and only want the green. What's going on boys? :hmm: I'm sure they're doing it on purpose. I've got 4 peppers in the fridge just for them and now only 1 of them is acceptable :lol:
 
On a local trip to Waitrose and M&S food, one spotted discounts on the fresh fruit a veg... one purchased purple sprouting broccoli, various fresh herbs, asparagus, Swiss chard, umpteen peculiar looking other vegetables and salad items that looked really wonderful (purple carrots? Knotty cucumber?) Even a veg that looked like Savoy cabbage leaves but had a poncy name I couldn't pronounce....
Well I took this stash home and was very excited that all this yummy treasure was destined for the piggies as treats....
On the way, one had to stop by Lidl.
I like a particular brand of Chutney they do... so upon picking up said Chutney, one perused the veg aisle (as one finds ones self drawn like a magnet) and picked up the humble orange bag of carrots... mainly cos my son seems to live on carrot. (I think he is a rabbit in a former life)
I again take this stash of food home and immediately with mucho enthusiasm chop, dice, cube and weigh out the new veggies ready and deposit thus forthwith into bowls in their hutches. This glorious cacophony of posh grub, colourful in its splendour gazed at longingly by myself at how marvellous I had been was henceforth ignored. By not one but ALL 10 piggies! ... in favour of what may you ask?.
One chuffing orange carrot.
 
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