Is it just me?

[CanadianCavy]

It's posted everywhere about the importance of a rotating diet.
I find it very hard to not just feed the same meal plan everyday. Specially with only two pigs, the produce will go bad if it's not something I would eat as well.
Realistically the amounts pigs eat is so small it's hard.
I feel as if I have a good list of foods.
Romaine and green leaf lettuce
Cucumber
Celery
Peppers
Fennel
Sometimes Corn husk and green bean

But I just love knowing that that is what I need to buy every Sunday and I can prep their dishes every evening for the following days feedings.

How important is rotation, really?

 

[Siikibam]

I don’t rotate if I’m honest. They’ll get a standard meal every day - green bean, one lettuce leaf, celery, cucumber, pepper, and a sprig of coriander. I’ll occasionally give them a slice of carrot, or tomato, or parsley if I buy some. And I may swap the lettuce out for a salad mix. Or if I buy kale I give them a little bit. Or a small piece of cabbage (from my garden ). But as said those other things aren’t given very often. They seem ok though

 

[Betsy]

Mine just have what I have in the fridge for us. I don't tend to buy much especially for the piggies.

 

[Swissgreys]

I don't change things up much either.
The piggies get what we eat, and I don't vary it becasue Lucy tends to get IC flares if I change anything.
They still wheek pretty loudly for their veg every morning though so I don't think they mind

 

[Guineapigfeet]

Mine get a fairly standard selection each day (peppers, celery, cucumber, lettuce) and they’ll get an extra bit or two each day depending on what we happen to have in the fridge - broccoli, carrot, melon, beetroot, sweet potato, cabbage, coriander, tomato (though Rey doesn’t like them) etc. They seem happy enough!

 

[Lady Kelly]

My rotation is based on when I go shopping. I am trying to combat food and plastic waste here as well as feed the pigs so I will do my shopping and they get fed based on what we have in. Next time I go I will buy something different for them and they will have that until it's gone too

 

[Fantasimo]

Mine get what we have with a few ‘specials’ just for them (parsley, spring greens, kale). Mine go off things after about two weeks of having them, so I then switch things up for them until they get bored again, then go back and rotate, but it’s not by choice on my part! For example, peppers are a no at the moment for reasons only the boys could tell you

 

[VickiA]

Mine get what we have with a few ‘specials’ just for them (parsley, spring greens, kale). Mine go off things after about two weeks of having them, so I then switch things up for them until they get bored again, then go back and rotate, but it’s not by choice on my part! For example, peppers are a no at the moment for reasons only the boys could tell you

They are a bit like toddlers, aren’t they? Love it for a day or 2 then turn their noses up. One summer mine rejected all cucumber for a month. I can only assume it tasted “different” but I’ve no idea why or how.

 

[VickiA]

Since having a piggy with a urethral stone and one with IC I follow the diet here Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets
We give pretty much the same veggies every day, but the piggies eat it all and holler twice a day for it so it must be good. I just divide it up into 2 servings and the rotation is for example whether they get celery or green bean for breakfast instead of at teatime. And we’ve got the IC under control and no stones for 20 months.

 

[Fantasimo]

They are a bit like toddlers, aren’t they? Love it for a day or 2 then turn their noses up. One summer mine rejected all cucumber for a month. I can only assume it tasted “different” but I’ve no idea why or how.

It just happens so fast and en masse too! They would suddenly rather starve than eat a bell pepper/cucumber.

 

[David Piggie Lover]

My girls have phases where one fav food be gone 1st then few weeks l8tr it's left in the dish not loved. I do change there food and way I cut present it also.
Heidi loves and eats anything red 1st. lol

 

[Bill & Ted]

I tend to buy veggies that we will eat as at the end of the week when the boys turn their noses up, we end up eating it! We also tend to give them herbs/weeds from the garden and they go out on the grass weather permitting