Disappointing root vegetables

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Theo would like to post a letter of complaint about his piggy slaves misleading him over vegetables. Tonight he was munching his red pepper slices when suddenly he realised there was grated beetroot underneath and he'd actually eaten some of it thinking it was still peppers! And this isn't the first time he's been fooled by root veg masquerading as something nice, last week when he got his dinner he thought the white chunks would be apples because that's what he'd had for lunch and he'd eaten 3 of them before he realised they were actually yucky turnip. He ate them anyway but while giving his piggy slaves a look of utter contempt. Bad piggy slaves trying to trick innocent piggies into eating unpalatable seasonal root vegetables!
 
Mine adore raw beetroot. They say can Theo send some their way? But not the turnip. Definitely not the turnip.
 
Bill and Ted love the peelings of home grown Parsnip! Some of which we grow are a little ugly, I think this one looks like a little tart! Took a photo of it the other day, it made me laugh x

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Skinny little Puggle loves root veg and we'd like to bulk her up a bit before winter so I keep adding a bit of sweet potato and turnip to the piggy dinners. Tonight was the first try with beetroot because my mum bought a bag of that bistro salad and she hates beetroot so she picked it all out and sent it round for the piggies! Puggle loves beetroot, Clover ate it because its made of food, Theo looked outraged but ate some anyway, Piggle tipped the dish over, and Jezebel ran away and hid from it :)
 
My two won’t eat my beetroot! But go mad for Bistro Salad beetroot. When Ted could not eat after a poor dental (cut his incisors too short) it was one of the few things he would actually eat - hand fed mind!
 
Not tried mine on beetroot (cos beetroot is EVIL!:yikes:) and not tried turnips either. Mine also love peelings of Parsnips @Bill & Ted but won't touch the ends :hmm:. Megs fave veg of all time is aubergine! She gobbles that up quickly before anybody else can take it off her! She even runs away with her little square.
 
I might start buying the bistro salad just for the piggies, breakfast on cage clean out days is usually a huge pile of burgess excel hay with a bag of salad leaves tipped on top served on the floor of the playpen :)
 
Betsy said:
Not tried mine on beetroot (cos beetroot is EVIL!:yikes:) and not tried turnips either. Mine also love peelings of Parsnips @Bill & Ted but won't touch the ends :hmm:. Megs fave veg of all time is aubergine! She gobbles that up quickly before anybody else can take it off her! She even runs away with her little square.
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I also believe beetroot is evil which is why we've never tried it with the piggies before, but if Puggle can eat lots of it and not get bloated or get her food stolen by the other piggies I am going to make it a regular thing! Not tried parsnips with them, or aubergine... but I will do now! I'm looking for new food ideas as they all used to eat heaps of coriander and parsley but this is what triggers Puggle's bloat (we've tried her with little bits of both since she recovered from her scary acute bloat episode and both times she's had tummy ache and I've had to give her Zantac and metacam and massage her tummy). She's fine with broccolli and spinach and watercress just not herbs...
 
Mine love beetroot and I often get the bistro salad for them, they Gobble it up straight away before anything else. I read somewhere (think it was guinea Lynx) that beetroot is good for their bladder :tu:
 
I'll try mine on the Bistro salad then next time I'm in Asda or Sainsburys.

I used to like beetroot until my friend took beetroot and cream cheese sarnies in for lunch at school and the beetroot had made the bread go all pink and soggy:vom::vom: and she would sit there quite happily chomping on this 'orrible pink soggy sarnie. Put me off beetroot for life! Never touched the stuff since.
 
I read that beetroot makes their pee pink so I feel quite smug that I coincidentally put lilac vetfleece and pink fleece hidey tubes in their cage today, not the pale grey selection!
 
Beetroot and cream cheese sandwiches sound yuk! My OH has a real aversion to beetroot after a classmate was sick at school on a white tablecloth after eating beetroot🤢

Must try and grow aubergine next year and try them on that
 
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