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This is what I usually feed my Mika in the way of veggies
Kale, Cut up cantalope, apple, green pepper, and tomatoe. Once a week a small piece of orange.
For treats I have several kinds (one of 2-3 kinds a day, mixing up which she gets what days)
Vitakraft Lofty's, vitakraft orange yogurt drops, vitakraft wild berry yogurt drops, vitakraft raviolos, sun seed animal lovens apple strudels, Kaytee bannana flavored yogurt dipped treats

All with her pellets and her Alfalfa.
 
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Hello :) Just a suggestion but I think you should remove the yoghurt drops from the diet as dairy products are not good for piggies. A good selection of fresh vegetables daily is much better. For a treat i.e. once or twice a week, you could give your guinea pig a couple of slices of fresh banana or grapes xx
 
Okay Ill see what I can do about the yogurt drops i have a good deal of them but my gerbils would probably go nuts over them! Are my veggies ok? I used to give the yogies to my guinea pigs when I had one ages ago, but, I have forgotten somethings, and some things have changed :)
 
Hi! Welcome to the forum!

Your diet is very sweet; it could lead to diabetes and cataracts long term.
Fruits have their place in a piggy diet, but not as the mainstay.

By far the biggest part should be hay - plenty of it and always as much as they can eat, in order to keep the guts going and the teeth nicely ground down. Followed by a mixed diet of veg (and a BIT of fruit now and then); ideally you want to give about 50g/one cup per piggy per day either once or divided into two meals. If your guinea pigs are less than a year old, you can give them unlimited access to pellets, later on you want to limit that to one handful per piggy per day. Please choose pellets over muesli, especially one that contains seed.

Please, do your piggies a BIG favour and stop your treats! Vitakraft yoghurt drops are about the worst thing you can give them: they contain dairy, sugar and fat - all the most unhealthy foods you could give them! If you want treats, go for a sprinkling of dried herbs (not too much, because they contain a lot of calcium) and dried herbage.

Here is a link to a healthy and balanced diet that contains all the necessary vitamins and has enough change to keep the guinea pigs happy and interested. http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37030

When you switch, do it slowly and never introduce more than one new food at any time, so you don't upset their guts. If they don't like it straight away, try again and again later - a bit like with getting children to eat green things!
 
Thanks everyone!

I am printing out both lists of foods and going to make a shopping list with my mom and get prices so I can get the money from my BF (shes our baby).

She gets as much alfalfa and timothy hay as she wants as well as pellets.
 
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