How small do you cut your veggies?

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Carrots, greens, etc, what size pieces to you serve? I have on hand an extra metal pellet server, I was thinking of serving their veggies in that but I would have to cut the carrots into 1 inch pieces.
 
I don't really cut them up, for leafy greens I feed whole leaves, carrots I'll chuck in whole or snapped in two so they can have half each (I've also been known, when preparing food for myself, to peel carrots directly into the cage :x), peppers I just break the bottom off (and split it in two again, the top half I give to my rats), things like broccoli and cauliflower I'll just snap off a couple of small 'trees' or I'll cut the stem/leaves off for them. Everything just gets thrown in the cage for them to forage for. I put their pellets in a 6 inch, shallow, ceramic dish but I know if I put veggies in a dish they'd just drag them out anyway. :)
 
Same here. It seems a bit pointless chopping it up when they're perfectly capable of taking bites out of big pieces. It's probably more fun for them too and certainly more natural. But then again, I don't think you're going to have a piggy mutiny on your hands if you do chop up their veggies :-)
 
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Ours are fussy little boys and don't really like their veg unless it's cut up fairly small. It's almost as if they get a bit overwhelmed with it! We normally cut cucumber in slices and then in half, and the same with carrots (unless they are small). We also cut green beans up into pieces. With things like kale or romaine lettuce we will usually do leaves but sort of tear them slightly.
 
My boys seems to prefer large bits of veggies, especially carrots. I do break some up as I like to scatter them around their cages so they have to work for them :)
 
Depends what time of day it is here, in a morning i will chuck a whole carrot in or snap in into 3 for them if they are all waiting, same goes for leaves i give them one each. In the evening they get a bowl of veggies which i chop up, they all sit around it eating which is cute. I just rough chop stuff up no particular size :)
 
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