Does anyone grow grass in trays for guinea pigs?

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I have a large hutch and run which is very difficult to move so I give the pigs two huge lots of fresh grass daily but my lawn is down to soil.... It is possible to grow grass in large trays so that you can simply take it out and then put another one if while the other recovers?
 
I am currently. My piggies are indoor, however. I bought some cat grass for my cats and piggies to eat
 
Silly question but does this grass grow like a lawn so that can eat it and then I can take it out and let it recover and then put it back in?
 
I think you can buy different sorts of grasses and seeds from Galen's Garden online. Haven't tried it but think they would nibble down to roots very quickly

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rosielx said:
Silly question but does this grass grow like a lawn so that can eat it and then I can take it out and let it recover and then put it back in?
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Only if you are super quick! I haven't yet got round to any planting this year due to too many problems here but hope to soon - before the piggies revolt!

My piggies are indoor piggies and I feel permanently guilty for not being able to offer them a garden so I tend to plant up trays and offer them during their free ranging time and always plan to remove before they decimate them so that, in theory, the grass can recover!

I get my seeds from Pampered Piggies and also throw in some of their wild seeds with the grass too so that they can have a good old forage :)
 
mstori said:
i just look like a mad woman and pick grass when walking the dog as all my grass in the garden has been eaten! lol

I didnt realise you could actually buy it! whats the best?
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Lol I get some strange looks out in the fields/nature reserve with a big handful or more of grass. Dont know why I always feel the need to tell anyone passing 'I'm collecting it for my guinea pig" - dont know what else Id want it for:(|)
 
alisont said:
Lol I get some strange looks out in the fields/nature reserve with a big handful or more of grass. Dont know why I always feel the need to tell anyone passing 'I'm collecting it for my guinea pig" - dont know what else Id want it for:(|)
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i do that too! then they look at me as if "okay..." lmao.. i even asked the bloke cutting the grass next door if i could have some! Cant wait for when they come round with the big grass cutters to do the fields! hehe ^)
 
I have recently cut my back lawn with the mower, earlier in the year it got long so trimmed it with kitchen sissors and fed it to my piggies. never got round to the front before the bad weather started so every night when I get home I stand on my front lawn and first hunt down juicy dandelions and leaves (just 2 leaves and one flower each) then take a bunch of grass (all with kitchen sissors) and walk back in my house :)) I dunno what some of my neighbours think! only 1 of my neighbours know I have piggies and I am at the bottom of a culdesac so there are about 10 houses who can see me :))
 
I have arrangements with the neighbours that I can pull up their grass if they don't cut it :). The only problem is that once Sausage and the new rescue baby that I'm expecting in June arrive I'll need more lawns to pull up mallethead
 
Briony_Y said:
I have recently cut my back lawn with the mower, earlier in the year it got long so trimmed it with kitchen sissors and fed it to my piggies. never got round to the front before the bad weather started so every night when I get home I stand on my front lawn and first hunt down juicy dandelions and leaves (just 2 leaves and one flower each) then take a bunch of grass (all with kitchen sissors) and walk back in my house :)) I dunno what some of my neighbours think! only 1 of my neighbours know I have piggies and I am at the bottom of a culdesac so there are about 10 houses who can see me :))
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Same here - I'm sure my neighbours think I'm insane (especially when I'm out the front picking grass), but never mind! :))
 
pelicano said:
Same here - I'm sure my neighbours think I'm insane (especially when I'm out the front picking grass), but never mind! :))
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I find it quite funny! I am waiting for someone to ask me what I am doing or walk past so I can say sorry about the long lawn but can't mow it as the piggies will sulk :))
 
I grow containers of grass on my windowsill for the pigs, along with lettuce and coriander. i have 2 containers that i pick by hand for them so it doesn't get uprooted and can keep growing, and one tub that they get to mow themselves. I did intend growing flowers this year, but then I got the piglets.:)p
 
I'm growing flat leaf parsley at the moment for the piggies :))
 
my friend gave me grass to grow for pets. its small and just enought for two. i wanst sure what it was going to do after i cut it down but i grew again!

good job too as black fly has attacked the corriander!
 
I grow grass. Grew some last year and it was fine. There was a few gaps where it hadn't grown properly but otherwise it was good and they loved eating it. It has seen better days and I'll probably end up doing another load for them, as the edges look to have died, and the gaps in my "lawn" are getting bigger, with replanting seeds not working
 
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Lol, I've loved reading these posts! I feel sane!

I'm really lucky, I work on a pretty large office estate which has its own gardener. One of my colleagues asked him if he uses any sprays or pesticides etc (he doesnt - he is very "at one with nature") so I can now go and pick some dandelions and grass for the boys twice a week.

What a lovely man!
 
Wow, I must do so me more shopping for the boys. If the weather's fine, I sit with the boys out in front of my house while they have a munch, but last summer, I grew some grass in a tray out on the patio out back. It's paved, so no grass growing, but it's walled, so they can run around more freely.

The tray is looking a bit sad having over grown over winter, so I might get some of those cavy-specific grass seeds and re-do it!

Here's a shot of Gethin and Celyn tucking into it last year.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/castaway_in_wales/2729145610/sizes/l/in/set-72157604488390184/

And here's a video of them "in action." http://www.flickr.com/photos/castaway_in_wales/2822494813/in/set-72157604488390184/
 
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