Do you feed your guinea pigs herbs?

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Do you feed your guinea pigs herbs? My piggy’s like dill and dandelion, but not too keen on parsley!

Here’s a a list of safe herbs to feed your guinea pig, along with a well-balanced diet of mostly hay, some pellets and fruits and vegetables.

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Dill
Parsley
Endive
Cilantro
Mint

The favorite part of my sows diet. Besides the carrot tops.
 
We do have our own feeding guides that are well researched and based on years of experience.

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Myguineapiggy said:
Do you feed your guinea pigs herbs? My piggy’s like dill and dandelion, but not too keen on parsley!

Here’s a a list of safe herbs to feed your guinea pig, along with a well-balanced diet of mostly hay, some pellets and fruits and vegetables.

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Hi!

Herbs are on our list of foods that are safe to eat and we recommend to feed a little fresh coriander/cilantro on a daily basis, as it is the least high in calcium.
Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets

Please note that in a mainly hard water country like the UK we do have to be a bit more careful as to which herbs we feed how often in quantity since the majority of them are high in calcium. While a little is fine, a bunch can become problematic in the long term; especially when you feed more than 1 tablespoon of pellets (which are actually even higher in calcium than kale and herbs weight by weight - even the no added calcium ones); but they are an excellent source of minerals and trace elements and are good to feed as the first green to a recovering piggy that has lost their appetite or needed to be kept of fresh food in the wake of a digestive upset (bloat or diarrhea).

Dill is the herb highest in calcium. Mine get a bunch between them during the summer months every now and then - but with my piggy numbers that doesn't up to a huge portion per piggy. They do get coriander regularly all year round and sometimes parsley (when left over from cooking) or home grown basil, mint or marjoram leaves when in season. Dandelion grows in my lawn and is not weeded out so, so the piggies can eat it during the summer. Any that I pull out of the flower borders goes to the piggies.

You can of course grow your own herbs in windowsill boxes if you wish to. That way, you can be sure that no herbicides have been used. :)
 
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