Can Guinea Pigs have Zucchini?

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Hello! Yesterday our neighbor with a garden gave us some vegtables from her garden. One of the things she gave us was Zucchini, I was wondering if piggies could eat Zucchini.
 
They might not like it, my piggies turned their spoilt little noses up at it because they expected it to be cucumber!
 
Isabella_Loves_Guineas said:
Hello! Yesterday our neighbor with a garden gave us some vegtables from her garden. One of the things she gave us was Zucchini, I was wondering if piggies could eat Zucchini.
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Yes, guinea pigs can eat zucchini/courgette. But most don't seem to like it.
 
Suprisingly they loved it 😯. But i am introducing them to it slowly since it is a new vegtable too them.
Wiebke said:
Yes, guinea pigs can eat zucchini/courgette. But most don't seem to like it.
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Especially Archie because he has never had veggies before. And Alfie is very picky 😅
 
Isabella_Loves_Guineas said:
Suprisingly they loved it 😯. But i am introducing them to it slowly since it is a new vegtable too them.
Especially Archie because he has never had veggies before. And Alfie is very picky 😅
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There is no accounting for taste... Guinea pigs are such individualists!

Courgette (UK)/zucchini (US) is related to the cucumber.
 
Isabella_Loves_Guineas said:
Just a quick question, do any of you know how often zuchini can be fed?
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Google says it can be fed a few times a week...because most guinea pigs we know won't touch it this is actually a relatively rare question lol. Blitzen, who would eat pretty much everything else, gave it a nibble and then gave me that look he'd perfected like "you're having a laugh, where's the real stuff".
 
Mine ate it once, and then never again. But I’d say a slice every couple of days should be fine.
 
Isabella_Loves_Guineas said:
Haha, I guess mine are strange piggies! I'm surprised people
are saying most piggies hate zuchini/courgette because Alfie and Archie took to it as soon as i gave them each slices 😅
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It's honestly one of only two things Blitzen ever refused to eat. Usually he'd eat something and six months later Comet would decide he'd eat it too, because he was losing a good chunk of his dinner over it. But courgette...nope. I even tried them with baby courgette instead to see if that would help (it's how they got started on cucumber anyway). I wonder if piggies have a thing about textures of the food they're eating as much as we do, and courgette's kinda soft and squishy.
 
Yea, it could be textures too. And I love how you have reindeer piggy names
Lorcan said:
It's honestly one of only two things Blitzen ever refused to eat. Usually he'd eat something and six months later Comet would decide he'd eat it too, because he was losing a good chunk of his dinner over it. But courgette...nope. I even tried them with baby courgette instead to see if that would help (it's how they got started on cucumber anyway). I wonder if piggies have a thing about textures of the food they're eating as much as we do, and courgette's kinda soft and squishy.
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Mine would only ever touch the round ones, which I had to order online, especially for them XD then I figured id just do what I do with most food and just feed it until they realise its food! Now it's pretty much a favourite with all 11, I give it to them a couple of times a week.
 
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