What type of lettuce is this? Can my pigs eat it?

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hi its not iceberg this is what i feed my piggies they love it :)
 
I give that to mine, hope it's ok. Think is just a bog standard lettuce.
 
It's bog standard lettuce, and mine get it as well from time to time.

Generally, I prefer to feed Cos lettuce to Romaine; they are very similar, but Cos has more nutritious outer leaves and is a lot cheaper!

You can feed any lettuce, even iceberg, in a pinch. But any mainly white lettuces are simply not very nutritious and should not be part of a regular diet for that reason.
 
I feed round lettuce quite often as it's so cheap. It's what we all used to know as lettuce before shops started to stock a variety of others. :)
 
Round lettuce = butterhead/boston/bibb in other countries, it's fine. :)
 
flips said:
I feed round lettuce quite often as it's so cheap. It's what we all used to know as lettuce before shops started to stock a variety of others. :)
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Lol, I was thinking the very same thing. This used to be the one and only kind of lettuce for a long time before that fancy iceberg stuff came along, followed by all those other wild and wonderful varieties. :))

Salad is so much more interesting now than it was back then. drool And all (except iceberg) to the guinea pigs benefit!
 
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Lol, I was thinking the very same thing. This used to be the one and only kind of lettuce for a long time before that fancy iceberg stuff came along, followed by all those other wild and wonderful varieties. :))
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:)) It's so true. When I was young rolleyes iceburg was the posh lettuce you got in prawn cocktails. :))
 
Too much iceberg can apparently cause diarrheoa, but moreso in rabbits than guinea pigs. Though when my rabbit and one guinea pig died, my lone guinea pig was getting too much iceberg (eating the same amount I used to give the three, oops) and that did give her diarrhoea, she was also getting too many other veggies at the time.

I always feed mine round lettuce because it's really cheap and they love it. It's my favourite lettuce too, I find iceberg kinda bland. It's nice on a really hot day to refresh you, but I find it's just too watery. I only buy other ones when they're reduced, no point spending too much money. :)
 
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