Veggies?

[Keira]

I’ve done a lot of research about my boys I still don’t know what is the proper vegetable-fruit diet is. They both have plenty of hay and pellets as well but I just want a second opinion.

 

[Siikibam]

Pellets should be restricted to one tablespoon a day, per piggie. Veggies should be 1 cup per piggie per day. Fruit and carrots should be given as a treat once in a while. Carrots and fruits are high in sugar, and some are acidic and can cause mouth sores. They can't produce vitamin C, so pepper is a good veg to serve them daily. Here is a link for info on veg portions etc.

 

[Piggies&buns]

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Hay needs to be fed in unlimited quantities and needs to make up over 80% of their diet.
One tablespoon of pellets per pig per day. I give my boys their pellets in the evening and after an hour or so I remove their pellet bowls and they don’t get the bowls back until the following evening with their pellet ration.
One cup of veg per pig per day.
My two get some slices of bell pepper, a small amount of lettuce, a small amount of spring greens, some cucumber and some coriander daily. I then rotate in a small amount of other veggies every week or so such as other herbs, bean sprouts, kale, spinach, watercress, rocket (kale spinach and rocket are high calcium so should be fed sparingly and not every day), a small amount of tomato, celery. They get a small piece of carrot perhaps once a month and hardly ever get any fruit.

 

[VickiA]

Great advice above.
Hay, hay and more hay is the key to a healthy piggy (about 80% of the diet). Then about 10-20% pellets and veg.
Here is our guide to a balanced diet. Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets

Mine get their veg split into 2 small portions each day.