Show me a picture of how you prepare your veggies please

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Could you guys please show me some pictures of how much veg you feed your guinea pigs and tell me how many times you feed them a day? I am worried I am giving mine too much fresh food. I'm also interested to see how everyone else prepares their food (i.e how they cut it up and stuff)
 
Don't have a photo at the moment. I work on the basis that each piggy needs a good teacupful of veggies per day, and I divide this into two servings. Breakfast and Tea. At each serving there will be 3 or 4 different veggies eg. Breakfast: Mixed lettuce leaves, carrots, cucumber. Tea: Savoy cabbage, Apple, Green Beans, celery. (This is today's menu) Cabbage is roughly chopped, Apple, cucumber, celery, carrots into chunks. Green beans into thirds. x
 
I don't usually cut veggies up. If there is only 1 carrot and 2 piggies then I'll cut it in two to stop squabbling (although they both try to go for the same piecemallethead). It's very funny watching them try to take a whole carrot through a doorway that's narrower than the carrot!
They get whole cabbage leaves too.
 
ChrisU said:
I don't usually cut veggies up. If there is only 1 carrot and 2 piggies then I'll cut it in two to stop squabbling (although they both try to go for the same piecemallethead). It's very funny watching them try to take a whole carrot through a doorway that's narrower than the carrot!
They get whole cabbage leaves too.
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Isn't cabbage bad for them? I thought it gave them gas.
 
Hi,
I don't have any pics I'm afraid but I usually feed my 2 boys approx 2 cupfuls (I heap their veggie bowl) in the morning - they share the bowl. Then they often get a little extra food during floor time in the evening, just some extra leaves or favourites like cherry tomatoes! I find that this is enough for them - they will sometimes leave some of their veggies for lunchtime rather than eating it all in one go. I cut the veg into smallish chunks as I think this encourages them to eat a greater variety of the different veg in their bowl, rather than eating only one larger piece of one veg.
They always get spring greens, plus any from the following: peppers, apple, carrot, broccoli, cucumber, cherry tomatoes (cut in half, otherwise they just chase them around!), celery cut small, mixed lettuce leaves, baby corn or corn on the cob...
I hope that helps
Catherine x
 
My 2 girlies have a bowlful like this twice a day. One for breakfast and one for tea. I chop the veg up in to chunks. The bowl can have anything in it from mixed salad leaves, tomato, pepper, cucumber, melon, celery, parsley, coriander, carrot, cabbage etc etc

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Once on a visit to my parents house, we forgot to take their veg bowl so they had a tupperware box instead

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I will take a pic later for you. My bf already thinks I am a nutbar, taking pics of fake pig teddies pretending to eat etc so I am sure he won't think anything of me taking a picture of their evening meal! :{:(|)
 
Claire W said:
My 2 girlies have a bowlful like this twice a day. One for breakfast and one for tea. I chop the veg up in to chunks. The bowl can have anything in it from mixed salad leaves, tomato, pepper, cucumber, melon, celery, parsley, coriander, carrot, cabbage etc etc

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Once on a visit to my parents house, we forgot to take their veg bowl so they had a tupperware box instead

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I'm sure they didn't mind :)! Is your parents house far? How are they with travelling?! ?/
 
Mine get this per pair twice a day

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My Single boys get this

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and my trio has this

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they usually get a lunchtime snack too which would for example consist of 2 small cubes of cucumber per pig and maybe a mint leave each xx
 
I'm glad this thread has been made as i was going to ask the same question as lately Mac and Rascal have been saying i dont give them enough food!mine get fed twice a day a bowl of dry food and a bowl similar size to hels/nutmegs bowl (Mac and Rascal looked at the photo and said thats what they should be getting just for themselves!:)) )
the veg goes very fast and the dried food bowl only has a bit left when its the next feeding time.with them eating so much i was beginning to think i wasnt giving them enough but now i know they have plenty and are just greedy boys :)
 
Wow thats a lot of food in that photo! If I had to prepare all that I don't think I'd ever get to work, you must have it down to an art!
Yes I agree that one of those bowls would be about what I'd give my two boys. They usually greet it very enthusiastically :))
 
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