Mint

[AutumnThePig]

Hi guys. I read somewhere on this forum (I can't find the post anymore), that it's safe to give mint to piggies occasionally. My piggie doesn't like a lot of the colored veggies, so I decided to buy mint to see if she likes it. Do I give her just the leaves or can I give her the leaves and stem? Also, exactly how often can piggies eat mint?

 

[artcasper]

I have given mine Mint .. I give them the whole leaf and the stalk.. not sure how often but it will be in the food guide somewhere..

 

[DMS260820]

I tried mine on mint and they have a nibble then run away.

 

[artcasper]

I tried mine on mint and they have a nibble then run away.

It is quite a strong smell

 

[furpiggy]

I give my guinea's mint. I give the whole stem / leaves. At first willow has a nibble and then he goes back to it and eats it once he gets use to the smell

 

[AutumnThePig]

Thank you everyone

 

[AutumnThePig]

The whole cup of vegetables is gone, but the mint leaves are left behind! Not a fan, I suppose.

 

[Tewdric]

Only my boar Brunel (now sadly rip) ever enjoyed eating mint. Stalks, leaves the lot - one whiff of it being picked from the herb bead and heading over towards him in the run/hutch and he'd be pacing around waiting for you; he loved it!

Both Wenlock and Lilith his wife-pigs would occasionally have a nibble at a leaf or two when they saw him being fed a sprig of two, but they didn't really like it. It was a case of jealousy from the attention he was getting.

 

[Lorcan]

Comet and Blitzen always got the stalks and the leaves. Blitzen hoovered up the whole lot from the start, Comet refused to touch it, then started eating either the stalks and then the leaves later on, or the other way around...I don't remember which. Both ended up preferring the stalks, though - the leaves would always be left until later.

 

[AutumnThePig]

Comet and Blitzen always got the stalks and the leaves. Blitzen hoovered up the whole lot from the start, Comet refused to touch it, then started eating either the stalks and then the leaves later on, or the other way around...I don't remember which. Both ended up preferring the stalks, though - the leaves would always be left until later.

I love the reindeer names!

 

[RosemaryM]

My 2 piggies LOVE freshly picked mint from the garden - stems and leaves. They get a very small amount every day, only couple of stems each.

 

[Betsy]

First of all my lot treated mint like it was poison but now they love it.

 

[rhymer]

My piggies Fred and George both adored mint, so I grew mint plants in the garden just for them.xx

 

[AutumnThePig]

First of all my lot treated mint like it was poison but now they love it.

Mine ate a bit of a leaf but other than that, barely touched it. Maybe I should keep being persistent?

 

[Betsy]

Mine got the taste for mint over the winter as I bought some forage with dried mint in it.