Can Guinea Pigs Eat Gooseberries?

[BonBon2010]

My two year old plants have produced a handful of little red gooseberries, but not really enough to do anything with.

 

[sport_billy]

Gooseberries are on the safe food list http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/...veg-and-fruit-list-with-vitamin-c-grading.42/ as with all fruit though only a little and not often

Gooseberries I thought are green though, are you sure they are gooseberries? If in doubt don't feed.

 

[rosie and bramble]

I'm wondering the same as sport_billy! are they goodberries as they are normally green, never come across them in a different colour

 

[Flutterby]

Gooseberries come in both green and red, depending on what colour fruit baring tree you have bought. Young red fruit gooseberries start out green too and then turn red. I have one of each

 

[Tim]

We have recently made a few bottles (gallons!) of wine from gooseberries, held a few back for the piggies. They just turned their noses up at them and demanded strawberries instead! Fussy so and so's, but you gotta love them! Little George was like a vampire afterwards

 

[sport_billy]

Never knew that, thanks @Flutterby

@Tim Have you tried the wine yet?

 

[Flutterby]

No problem. My piggies aren't too fussed over gooseberries too. They can be quite bitter at times

 

[Tim]

@sport_billy Still bubbling away mate. I can't bottle it just yet, or else..... KABOOOM! (and lots of spillage )

 

[Katherine]

I used to give the odd gooseberry to some of my previous piggies, and they enjoyed them. More than we did, I think. We planted two very heavy cropping bushes in a mega flush of enthusiasm for growing just about everything, and then discovered that we didn't actually like gooseberries very much. We ended up getting 40 - 50 lbs off those two bushes ("Invicta" for anyone who's interested - resistant to mildew, too!) Maybe I should have taken a leaf out of @Tim 's book, and made wine out of them!

 

[Hermes]

Gooseberries come in both green and red, depending on what colour fruit baring tree you have bought. Young red fruit gooseberries start out green too and then turn red. I have one of each

This. Also, the red gooseberries are somewhat sweeter and can be palatable enough to eat unprocessed. Gooseberry fool is good!

 

[Flutterby]

I love red gooseberries raw!