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Just wondering how often this should be fed?

I've give them a few stalks of it with leafs every day
 
Here's what I feed once a day.

Basil coriander mint.
Romaine and little gem.
Bean sprouts
Cucumber
Mixed peppers.
 
Honestly I'd treat basil like I did with thyme, once or maybe twice a week as a treat.
 
Honestly the only herbs my two would eat were parsley, mint and thyme. Comet wouldn't touch coriander. Mind you he was weird and didn't like carrot silks either lol.
 
I've been giving my girls this selection for about a year now. I make up 4 days of food ahead of time.

But with basil now being not great. And some concern over coriander. Been hearing mint isn't even the best for them.

Just not sure how to work the feeding out now
 
My two eat mint. It is also an ingredient in burgess pellets.
Basil is fine, it’s just better for long term diet to rotate food items
 
Never tried basil, but mine always get coriander about twice a week, and dill or parsley about once a fortnight! The rationale for this herd choice partly being that us hoomans love coriander and buy it routinely, also it is high vit C and low calcium. Parsley is high calcium I believe and as the hoomans dont like it, its an occasional treat. Dill I have no idea about the nutritional content though I dont think its high calcium, but again the hoomans at my house really dont like dill so its something that only turns up in the fridge as a piggy treat!
 
Yea gunna change there foods up. And skip basil for perhaps once a week.
 
BTW what do you feed yours everyday I was thinking peppers and the little gem and romaine
 
Peppers everyday for mine, cucumber too

I feed coriandor daily though.

Parsley and spinach I am scared of, after one of my previous boars got 3 inoperable bladder stones, and died
 
Peppers and lettuce always went down a treat. I usually bought little gem or sweet gem, romaine only jf it was on offer. Then I'd change it up on a daily basis because I only shopped once a week, so sometimes it'd be a bag of salad leaves, sometimes herbs like thyme, sometimes kale or savoy leaves, all on top of the lettuce and peppers.

@SkyPipDotBernie just reminded me about cucumber, but sometimes I'd see if I could find baby cucumbers because they really liked them lol. They also got the occasional melon or apple snack pack between them.
 
Mine get a slice of cucumber and a slice of red pepper each pretty much daily, then we rotate the leaves and herbs throughout the week. On saturdays they usually get beansprouts because the hoomans have stirfry dinner, and about twice a week they get a couple if slices of carrot or babycorn each too.
 
PigglePuggle said:
Mine get a slice of cucumber and a slice of red pepper each pretty much daily, then we rotate the leaves and herbs throughout the week. On saturdays they usually get beansprouts because the hoomans have stirfry dinner, and about twice a week they get a couple if slices of carrot or babycorn each too.
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Have you tries feeding parsnip? Dot would give up bernie for it
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Have you tries feeding parsnip? Dot would give up bernie for it
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Parsnip and turnip are not popular here, the piggies expect white chunks of things to be apple and when they are not there is a general feeling of disappointment (or psychotic piggy rage with evil looks or sulks!)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Parsnip and turnip are not popular here, the piggies expect white chunks of things to be apple and when they are not there is a general feeling of disappointment (or psychotic piggy rage with evil looks or sulks!)
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I get the same feeling from cheese, thinking white chocolate
 
Have you tried them with Spring greens and green beans my lot go mad for them
 
Spring greens are a young cabbage. My two piggies (and my rabbit) enjoy it. They also love green beans.
They have rotation of:
Lettuce (every day); Cucumber (every day), peppers (every day), green beans, baby corn, coriander, basil, mint, dill, celery, tomatoes, spring greens, broccoli. I also feed them spinach, watercress, rocket, kale, carrot tops but I don’t give these things often. My two absolutely refuse to even look at courgettes!
Carrot, apple, blueberries as treats.
 
Easier than trying to explain, these are the ones I buy for the girls
 

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My lot like stringless beans (they are like giant foot long pea pod things) if I occasionally buy some for a stir fry!
 
Do you have to cut them or take the beans out of the pods?
 
You’ve had some good advise here already. Just to give another idea. My piggies have celery, green beans, lettuce/salad mix/lambs lettuce, cucumber and pepper daily. They will occasionally have some kale (rarely), carrot top (carrot if my husband gives them some), and parsley. Today they tried banana and LOVED it! I also occasionally give them a little Apple.
Apart from that it’s same old same old.
 
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