What do you feed your piggies daily?

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squeaksandcarrots

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I was just curious to see what everyone else feeds their piggies :)
I currently feed mine green leaf lettuce, carrot bits, a cucumber slice, and Penny gets a slice of pepper (Cocoa hates peppers!)
 
Mine mostly get some bell pepper, cucumber, lettuce, spring greens, coriander daily. Rotate in other veg such as green beans, celery, bean sprouts, other herbs, kale, spinach, watercress, rocket etc. They only get carrot once or twice a month due to the high sugar content and hardly ever get fruit.
 
Mine get a mix, but it does vary depending on what is in season.
Our staples are; lettuce, peppers, cucumber, fennel, celery (stalks, leaves only as an occasional treat) coriander, and green beans.
Treats and seasonal additions include; blueberries (Eddi made me write that first), strawberry tops, brussel sprouts, kohl rabi, sweetcorn outers and silks, brocolli, kiwi fruit peels, carrot, beetroot, apple peelings, parsley, and basil.
 
Celery, cucumber, coriander, lettuce, green beans every day. Then spring greens maybe 3ce a week. A bit of carrot occasionally, when I remember - around once every month/6 weeks. I rarely give them fruit - blueberries or a little apple every couple of months. I haven’t given them spinach or kale in a long time now.
 
We feed ours this roughly

Morning:
Cucumber -1.5 cm x 2cm chunks (twice)
Celery - 1 stick between 3 chopped up small
1/6th of Red/Green/Yellow Bell Pepper (de-seeded)

Evening:
Cucumber 1.5 cm x 2cm chunks (twice)
Two Little Gem Lettuce leaves or 10 sprigs Coriander. Twice a week we will swap in cabbage or parsley

We also add in to the above diet carrot, sweet potato, celery leaves and a few other things occasionally

But by no means am I any expert on food here, some folks on the forum are really clued up... so pick up advise where you can.
 
@sport_billy why are celery leaves not meant to be fed regularly? Not that I do - once every week/2weeks. But I always look out for leafy celery 🤷🏾‍♀️
 
My two love celery leaf, it’s one of their favourites. Bill is more adventurous than Ted. Neither like peppers though in any colour at all or coriander and tomatoes. We live in a soft water area so don’t worry too much about calcium. They have a small bit of the following twice a day depending what we have in the fridge/allotment/greenhouse/foraged = green beans + leaves, dark cabbage leaves, mini/corns + leaves, lettuce, cucumber, carrot + leaves, apple + branch with leaves, pear + leaves and branch, blueberries, beetroot, parnsnip, kale, sprouts, parsley, rosemary, fennel, dandelion and grass.
 
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