What and how much veg your guinea pigs get

[Esirev]

Hi, I`ve had my two guinea pigs for nearly a year now, but I`m beginning to feel that if in any case I am doing something horribly wrong, I should get it fixed now.
I`m interested in seeing pics or examples of what veg and how much you feed your guinea pigs? I`ve searched online a lot (and watched many videos and guinea pig forum guides) but I thought it would be helpful if I see what you feed your guinea pigs in a day? I was thinking of a photo if that wouldn`t be too hard. Thank you for any tips!

 

[David Piggie Lover]

hi and hello.
So many different amounts people give to their piggies.
Guide lines are on home page this forum.
Mine (4) eat what they want and leave rest for me to clean up.
It's important to give Fresh Hay as this is 80% the diet.

 

[Siikibam]

I’ll tell you as I don’t have a photo at the moment! We have four and each pig gets:
1 green bean
Spring of coriander if I have any
Slice of cucumber
Piece of celery
Piece of pepper
One lettuce leaf or a small handful of salad mix
They get that twice, apart from the lettuce which they only get in the morning. If the lettuce leaf is large, I’ll give them half each. I can’t remember which type has the big leaves but I tend to get the sweet gem, which is small.

I’ll occasionally (if I remember) give them carrot peelings/carrot or apple. It’s not often as I tend to forget Sometimes some parsley, if I get some/buy some. That’s normally given as a treat if I hold them.

 

[Swissgreys]

I pretty much follow the guide in the link below.
One of the things i love is that it has photos which really helped me a lot when I first got started.
Like you I find a picture super helpful.

Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets

I do vary things a bit depending on what is in season locally, and it is also a matter of working out what works for your guinea pigs too.

 

[David Piggie Lover]

I pretty much follow the guide in the link below.
One of the things i love is that it has photos which really helped me a lot when I first got started.
Like you I find a picture super helpful.

Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets

I do vary things a bit depending on what is in season locally, and it is also a matter of working out what works for your guinea pigs too.

There's breakfast and dinner for Heidi and Chloe.
Heidi was more intrested in hay from the log and Chloe in me taking picture.
I be very suprised if they eat it all.
I'm off to work and next food be 10 hours.

 

[Esirev]

Thanks so much for your advice! I'll definitely check out that link.

 

[ThePiggieHouse]

https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/attachments/15519454572063193260715046529299-jpg.108261/
I think this is the link to what mine used to have with 10 of them (just for breakfast... tho it's increased slightly with 5 new additions...
They get (the same amount) but different herbs and veg in the evening. Plus the girls get one block (approx a foot long) of hay a day in their sack and the boys get the same, then about a baked bean tin of pellets (per house) sometimes more or less depending on if any has been left over.
Obviously then, in the summer when foraging season starts and the edible flowers blossom there is a half a cup full per Piggie and less "human safe" veggies.
Obviously mine eat loads, but I would say a cup of greens, half cup pellets and as much hay as they can eat x

 

[Siikibam]

The recommended amount of pellets is a tablespoon per piggy

 

[Merab]

I have 3 sows who get a lettuce leaf in the morning - either romaine or red gem.
If I’m around in the middle of the day they get a handful of dill or a chunk of cucumber then in the afternoon I give them a pasta bowl with assorted veggies.
They get roughly a pasta bowl full over the course of the day.
Thanks to forum members they are getting a much wider variety of veggies than they used to.

 

[Kylie80]

In the morning my 2 get cucumber, green or red capsicum, zucchini and a small handful of lettuce mix between the 2 of them and some coriander/cilantro every 3 days. Breakfast pretty much never changes because their night time meal is so varied. At night time they get more cucumber because our climate is so hot, 2 beans each and whatever I have available in the fridge at the time and occasionally some kale or spinach. They get 1/8 of a cup of pellets to share between them in the morning and again at night because they share a pellet bowl, I can't get them to eat pellets out of their own bowl. And of course tons of hay.