What Veggies Should I Ve Feeding?

[PlausiblePiggie]

Hi, i am a new guinea pig owner and have had my 3 guinea pigs for about 2 weeks now (they are around 7 months old). Of course i have done lots of research beforehand about vegetables to give guinea pigs but i had not found how much and how often i should feed each type of veg and thought a guinea pig forum would be a good place to turn to.

I am currently giving the guinea pigs...
2 leafs of round lettuce (one if really big), 2 leafs of Little Gem Lettuce (one if really big) every other day (eg round lettuce monday, little gem tuesday, round lettuce again on wednesday, etc). These are the only types of lettuce i have been able to find.
As well as lettuce i feed bell peppers (roughly 6 chunks per pig) every day. Things i will feed a lot less of is 1 or 2 sprigs of Coriander each, slice of carrot each, half a cherry tomato each, piece of apple each and a slice of cucumber each (the pigs have only had some of these once or twice because i have only had them for a short period of time). I would also like to start feeding celery but am unsure how often i should feed it.

I would be extremely grateful if someone could tell me if i am feeding too little each day and what veg is okay to feed daily because most of the things i feed i only feed once or twice a week.
Thank you very much and sorry for the long post and possible spelling mistakes .

 

[Teddybear22]

Hi, to the forum!

In my opinion (and I'm not an expert at all, so wait to see what others say about it) you're giving them too much lettuce. I would give it to them maybe twice a week (eg, on monday and on thursday or friday).

As the list of veggies you can give them is quite extensive, I'll link to you two of the forum guides that are really complete and made by people who is very knowledgeable, so you can trust them with your eyes closed!:

Recommendations For A Balanced General Guinea Pig Diet
Edible And Forbidden Veg And Fruit List With Vitamin C Grading

 

[PlausiblePiggie]

Hi, to the forum!

In my opinion (and I'm not an expert at all, so wait to see what others say about it) you're giving them too much lettuce. I would give it to them maybe twice a week (eg, on monday and on thursday or friday).

As the list of veggies you can give them is quite extensive, I'll link to you two of the forum guides that are really complete and made by people who is very knowledgeable, so you can trust them with your eyes closed!:

Recommendations For A Balanced General Guinea Pig Diet
Edible And Forbidden Veg And Fruit List With Vitamin C Grading

Thank you very much for your help, I will be sure to give them less lettuce and follow the guides from the information you linked