Fresh Grass and Lawn Time Spring Alert - Please Read

[Wiebke]

The coming warmer days mean that grass is growing again. Please be aware that any indoors piggies are like tender plants: the gut microbiome needs time to grow the specialist digestive bacteria and the lawn still needs to be warm and dry to your own bare feet after 5 minutes. Always provide shelter from sudden temperature drops when clouds move in and from cool breezes.

Diarrhea or bloat from too much fresh grass kill piggies every Spring, and so do repiratory and urinary tract infections for unprepared piggies.

Please be aware that the first outdoors trips and season can be very frightening and that any runs are predator safe against foxes, rats, cats and dogs (whose pee is poisonous to piggies).

Please do not plant foxgloves anywhere near the lawn and ideally have them in a different part at all or don' have them at all. Even a small bit of leaf or any part of the plant is highly poisonous and can be sadly all too often fatal.

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Here are the practical how to details to keep your piggies safe while you get them used to the outdoors: Feeding Grass And Preparing Your Piggies For Lawn Time

 

[Betsy]

I've started to give my trio grass already. The grass is growing on the lawn but the ground is too wet to mow it yet. I go outside every day with scissors and get a few handfuls to give Misty, Bramble and Saxon at breakfast time along with their breakfast pellets. They all love fresh grass and snaffle it up as quickly as possible. I can't put them outside because we have foxes in the garden during the day as well as at night (the foxes live on the Heath & houses away). Part of my garden is wild and I let the grass grow out of control in the Summer so that there is always a healthy supply to give the piggies.

 

[Roselina]

I bought a grass tray from one of the online hay companies and I cut a small handful for them most days - they love it
I have a gravel garden so no grass here
I’m wary of cutting it from the verge