What have you given your pigs today?

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Today mine had Tesco guinea pig food as usual for breakfast, a rack full of hay, a carrot and a big handful of spinach leaves. My daughter also gave them a grape each as a treat.
 
Spinach, romaine lettuce and dried grass as well as their normal dried food.
 
they had their normal dry food for brekkie

some cherry tomatoes, cucumber, carrots and spinach and lots of hay! O0
 
Spring greens
Green beans - Meg loves these, bonnie's not keen except for the bit meg was eating! ::)
some lettuce (not iceburg)
 
Carrot and spring greens so far (aswell as their dry food and hay of course). That was just a snack whilst I was taking photos ;D
 
Spring Greens make my girls trump a lot...lol So I don't give them anymore. Infact I don't give cabbage at all or Kale it produces the same problems for my pigs. :)

I think I've got very windy piggies! :D
 
Just don't give a lot, I think I was giving too many windy foods. I do give lettuce but only a small amount a day. I got my menus from another forum and I find them really good. Cavy diet really interests me, I feel that providing a proper balanced diet will help in the long run and protect from Bladder Stones.

I noticed with my older boys that there were lots of calcium deposits which is normal but since giving a lot more variety this has stopped. I guess it is a learning curve. :)
 
I shall have to cut down on the spring greens then thanks for letting me know.My girls are a bit fussy so I'm limited as to what I can feed on a daily basis.I know you shouldn't feed iceburg lettuce but is there any other types of lettuce they shouldn't have?I do give them carrot everyday and a bit of cucumber and they love sweetcorn are these OK to feed every day?
 
I give my lot Romaine, Curly and round lettuce I give them one serving of this a day but it is only very small I then give half a cherry tom each, green pepper 1/8 and yellow pepper 1/8 I give a small finger of carrot too I give these daily then the likes of herbs corriander and parsley I give every other day.

Cucumber doesn't do much for them, mine love it but it's full of water. I stopped buying it along with celery. Sweetcorn could be given every other day.

I give melon, cucumber, apple and red pepper as a treat because of the sugar intake in the fruit and cucumber because they love it I decided to make it as a treat for them. :)
 
Mine don't like cherry tomatoes or peppers ::) I don't feed spring greens everyday it's just that a bought a big bag so they had it three days in a row! I'll just have to try them with different things. :)
 
Yeah it's trial and error, my older boys (6 months) will eat anything except courgette. My younger boys (3 and 2 months) turn their noses up at a lot of things, but if they don't eat it they get no other option, they soon learnt that! I'm strict! :D
 
I'll try my two with courgette! I think I know what forum you mean so I'll have a look later just to get some ideas. At least they've tried something different today (green beans)!Thanks for the advice it's very much appreciated O0
 
Hi Louise, could I be really cheeky and ask where you got the menus from...they sound a really good idea ?
sammy xx
 
ooh i'd like to know that too. I've just extended my brood from 2 to 4 and any feeding advice would be fab as it i'll be buying twice the amount now too! ;D
 
I've given mine carrots with the greens left on as its my bunnies first birthday today and I bought them as a present but had loads left over :D
 
todays menu

spring greens
salad mix
sprout
banana
carrot tops
watercress
 
they have just had their supper which included:

carrots
spinach
apple
tomato
celery (plenty of the leaves for meeka)
pepper (red and green)
bananna
red cabbage
cucumber
 
this morning

choy sum and baby tomatoes, bermuda grass and pellets

tonight

brussel sprouts, brocolli and pear with timothy hay and pellets
 
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