Can guinea-pigs eat banana?

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Can guinea-pigs eat bananas? If yes, how often can they have it?
 
Yep. They seem to love it :) I usually give my girls a slice or two every so often.

Don't feed every day though as there's lots of sugar in bananas ;)
 
All of mine like banana both fruit and skin but I think its a fruit not to be given too often. I'm not sure but I think it may 'bung' them up a bit if fed too much
 
Just read this so thought I would give them some as have never done before and Gertie heard me chopping and came shooting across the room from under the coffee table to see what I had given them and the look of disappointment on her face was priceless. Neither her or Johnny have touched it. Oh well.
 
:)) Pippa and Willow love it but Pixel wasn't sure either. Once she tried it she gobbled it up like the other two though ;)
 
My pigs never touch it! But in my prehaps over cautions oppinion I wouldnt feed anymore than an inch every two weeks at the most, maybe even once a month.
 
Mine don't like it :( Which is a shame because I like them so could give them a bit of mine. Tried it with all of them except Henry and none of them eat it.
 
Mine were terrified of it when I put some in and wouldn't relax until I took it back out. I felt like I was torturing them because I left it for an hour, poor pigs :))
 
My old pigs hated it, so I've never tried with my new ones. :)
 
My two babies arent fussed with banana, but we havent had them long so in about a month or so i will try it again :)
 
Dindy loves a bit of banana. We give her about an inch long piece with the skin on every other week or so.
 
I think i will try that....maybe they will like it more with the skin on :)
 
Mine tried it but then spat it out! Fussy little things!
They can have the skin though so if they like it then i wouldn't gove them much! Maybe once a week and only a little bit.
 
It is a good source of potassium, Dr Who was right, so it's useful to a piggie who has been weeing a lot or has soft poos and has therefore been getting rid of salts. I just give a little bit as needed then, not regularly I must admit.
 
Mine love it and will eat the skin first when they get it (once or twice a week). Don't give them the skin unless you buy organic bananas, though... Bananas are one of the fruits that are smothered in pesticides, but because we remove the peel before eating non-organic bananas are almost as safe as organic (not for those who work the banana plantations, though...)
 
I give them the skin (1/2 each) and they seem to love it. They are less keen on the actual banana so I eat that - seems like a good sharing exercise.
 
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