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Can guinea pigs eat herbs?
Mine adore parsley, but I wanted to know about mint, rosemary, thyme, basil, etc...

Some places say no, others yes. I have even read that you should never give parsley to a pregnant guinea pig as it has abortive properties...but mine ate/eats huge amounts of it daily. So I thought I would ask the experts... ;)
 
Of all the herbs they can have, my lot love parsley, corriander and dill and are developing a fondness for basil too. They tried a few chives last night and they got a mixed reaction - Pixel spat them out! :))
 
Little Piggles said:
Of all the herbs they can have, my lot love parsley, corriander and dill and are developing a fondness for basil too. They tried a few chives last night and they got a mixed reaction - Pixel spat them out! :))
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Parsley is the favourite for my two boys as well. CheesyPuff pratically eats my hand off to get it - you wouldn't know he was capable of moving so fast. They weren't too impressed with chives either lol.
 
parsley goes down well with my girls but coriander disappears immediately with Peter :)) keep meaning to nip down the garden and try then on sage, rosemary and fennel. Oh and they all eat the mint as well
 
cilantro is surpringsly a favorite of my pigs (surprisning in my opinion, because i think it tastes like soap! OH will argue with me till the day he dies that it doesnt tho!) rolleyes
 
Yeah, I've never even attempted to give them chives as even the taste is quite onion-like. It didn't seem right to give them something that tasted like onion...
 
ive never given my pigs anything from the onion family, but ive often thought it's a rather shame that they cant have it. my family never has a shortage of onions, we put it in everything...same goes for garlic! :))
 
Ok when I said mine didn't like chives either I think I actually meant something else. I think I was thinking of dill.:red This is why I don't have dinner parties.
 
Mine love their herbs, with basil being the favourite at the moment.....but they also like mint, parsley, dill, tarragon. They're not over keen on rosemary and sage, and they completely ignore coriander.

We bought a 'celery leaf' herb plant the other day (I'd never heard of it before) and they love that, we pick a couple of stems for them once or twice a week! It actually does smell and taste like the leaves from a celery bunch (which is my piggies' favourite part of the celery).

I always thought that chives, being part of the onion family, were a 'no no' for guinea pigs?

Tracey
 
Vida said:
Thanks! Hadn't thought about lavender. Any kind?
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I'm not sre about french lavender (the one with longer tufts out the top of the mauve part) but normal lavender leaves and the head is fine:))

Ihave just planted some fresh herbs in a pot for cookng and the piggies treats.
 
Please do not feed your piggies chives, garlic, onions, leeks, spring onions wild ramsons or anything from the bulb family. They contain potentially fatal toxic chemicals that have been shown to destroy red blood cells in a number of animals and a week or so later your piggie could become very ill indeed.
 
My piggies love Parsley, Coriander, and Basil. They have a lil nibble at Lemon Grass adore fennel! Stalk and all
 
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