Veg And White Spots On Fleece

[Laura mason]

I'm noticing white spots on the fleece. It's not gritty but there sometimes can be quite a bit. For veg they usually get between 9 pigs:-
2 bell peppers
1 carrot cut into 9 pieces
A chunk of cucumber cut into 9 pieces
2-3 leaves of round lettuce each
3 leaves of Spring green between 9
A couple of sprigs of coriander

The bell pepper, carrot, cucumber, and lettuce I feed daily. Coriander most days. Spring greens are alternated so sometimes celery, sometimes baby corn etc. I would do Spring greens quite a bit as they really love them.

I didn't think anything here was overly high in calcium? I was feeding romaine lettuce but stopped that a while ago as thought that may be contributing. The spots were less frequent after this but I've started noticing then again?

Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? x

 

[Deleted member 114675]

if the white spots look chalky - this is perfectly normal . I wouldn't get concerned unless you seen anything that looks gritty.

Personally, I think spring green is a great veg to give ( in small quantities ) . I don't know how big your leaves are - I would aim to give a 1" strip per pig.

 

[Laura mason]

The leaves would be roughly 30cm long and 15cm wide. Is 3 leaves for 9 pigs ok? That's great, thank you. I thought seeing white was bad and a sign that you should be reducing your calcium but like I said I didn't think they had an overly high calcium diet. But if it la normal that's great . Is it normal if it's kind of thickish? Like creamy in consistency? Oh the things we talk about lol x

 

[Deleted member 114675]

Guinea pig wee can look creamy