Thick grass?

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JuliaGuineaPiggy

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Hey! So I pick my piggies grass very often but today I saw grass that was really thick, i don’t really know how to explain it but I was wondering if it’s okay to feed them? I realise the photo just looks like normal grass but it’s a lot thicker than normal grass. I hope someone knows what I mean and can tell me if it’s okay for them or not ! 😂 thank you x
 

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I see what you mean. Looks odd but may be a different type of grass...I’m not sure to be honest.
 
We have that in our garden sometimes and my piggies have ate it no problem... They love it... Wasn't 100% sure on it myself but its mixed in with the thin grass so I thought it was okay...
 
It does look 'different', but I'm not sure if that is just because of the way you have placed it or because it is so close up. It looks a bit like the leaves of spring bulbs, which piggies shouldn't eat. Can you take a picture of it as it is growing?
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
It does look 'different', but I'm not sure if that is just because of the way you have placed it or because it is so close up. It looks a bit like the leaves of spring bulbs, which piggies shouldn't eat. Can you take a picture of it as it is growing?
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Snap! I was thinking along the same lines, though more spring onions.
 
I'd have also said bulb leaves. There are different types of grass but I've never seen 'big' blades as juicy and snap-able as bulb leaves. They might not have eaten it anyway but better safe than sorry.

@teddymouse - do you happen to know whether piggies eat chives?
 
I ask because a few years ago an escapee mowed down the young shoots of a bunch of chives in the garden but ignored the bunch next to it... when I checked the label they were 'garlic chives' which were basically the same plant but a bit garlicky. The fluffy Houdini didn't seem to suffer any ill effects but I don't normally offer chives. I didn't know whether it was a 'didn't eat' or a 'shouldn't eat' situation!

The same culprit (with their easily-led amigo) had also found a 6 foot wigwam of green beans, bit through each stem at the base and with a mighty heave the whole plant was unwound and scoffed - stalk, leaf and baby beans. This was actually how they were spotted - looking out the bathroom window I suddenly saw the whole structure shaking and the stems sluthering down the canes and disappearing! Over the next week there were 2 further escapes until all the beanstalks were gone - after that they stopped trying to get out of the run so presumably everything else was too nasty to make an effort for!
 
Had the same happens with a row of 24 runner bean plants in a raised veg bed,2 climbing piggies that easily cleared 18 fencing, ate them at ground level, then pulled the rest down.

Chives, l wouldn't feed to my lot, but have been known to help them selfs, piggies are rodents, and l have over the years watched them find a plant that l wouldn't feed them and watch them help them selfs to little bits, as they built up immunity to that plant over weeks, 3 plants that were picked off the last couple of years, petunia, lobelia and primroses.
 
So true. And I have a tiny little patch of garden. Over the years we've ended up with plants which are "not too tasty and not too toxic". All the delicious stuff is in taller planters or wall baskets or fenced in - I've had more success fencing in the plants than the pigs! Ivy used to eat violets wherever she found them (it's all very damp and shady here) and I used to panic because they seemed like something to avoid, but when I looked them up (to tell the vet as I rushed her in, obvs) they are apparently completely edible and high in vitamins A and C. Who knew?
 
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