Mixed Salad Leaves

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Does anyone buy bags of mixed salad leaves for their piggies from tesco or sainsbury's and such like. Just wondering what people buy if they do - I have seen some bags of mixed salad leaves but they include beetroot leaves which I have heard piggies shouldn't have. Also some of the bag dont say exactly what leaves are in them.
It would be so much easier if I could just buy a bag or mixed salad but not sure which is the best to buy.
 
i would have thought this was a more expensive way to buy greens? they should nt have iceberg lettuce, but can have romaine, there might be a lot you cant give in the prepacked salad bags .
 
Mine love it. I buy bayleaf salad from Tesco and the larger salad bags from an Italian company. It is nice as they get a variety.
 
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MIne sometimes have the mixed salad with herbs, which they go mad for! But they only get it if the bags are reduced otherwise its just not a very economical way of feeding them
 
I sometimes buy them for ease and variety. Never the ones with iceberg. They love the one with beetroot in, but I'm not sure about the leaves. xx
 
Mine love them the most, i buy the ones from the co-op as they list the leaves, they like the ones with spiniach, coriander, pea shoots etc, they would demolish the lot if i let them so i just buy them occaisonally.
 
I feed mine bags of salad all the time.

I feel a bit of an idiot but what else is there to feed them? I only have 3 so buying a whole lettuce......wouldn't that be too much? And they get variety with the bags...:red

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sophieandhoney said:
I feed mine bags of salad all the time.

I feel a bit of an idiot but what else is there to feed them? I only have 3 so buying a whole lettuce......wouldn't that be too much? And they get variety with the bags...:red

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little gem lettuces are only small, i think these are ok to give too, there are lots of different things to feed them, if you eat broccoli then there is the stalk, cauliflour leaves off of your cauliflour, i grow parsly in a pot on the windowsill, bags of greens are reasonably priced too, i think you are right in saying there is variety in the salad bags, but we have five! that would work out a lot of money for me to feed them all on.
 
sophieandhoney said:
I feed mine bags of salad all the time.

I feel a bit of an idiot but what else is there to feed them? I only have 3 so buying a whole lettuce......wouldn't that be too much? And they get variety with the bags...:red

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I was wondering this too as I only have 3 :)

I am always chucking out stuff, I don't like to overfeed them green stuff, & have never feed them Romaine lettuce until reading this forum :) I think they can eat rocket & radicchio but i am a bit scared I get a bag & it has something in they shouldn't have & if it touched the stuff they can eat in the bag would one not contaminate the other?
 
asda

i cant rember the names but i did check at the time it was safe-asda was doing a live lettuce-in soil 3 diffrent types in one pot was only £1 my gals loved it, just had to water it an it lasdted over a week drool
 
Thanks everyone.
I only have two pigs and I buy them spinich and curly kale, amoung other things, but it comes in such big bags and goes off before they eat it all. I like to give them variety so I think that buying bags of mixed leaves would actually be more cost effective for me. Also I can eat it in my tortillas too.
 
The Live lettuce that Dot an Milly mentions is great, keeps fresh for ages as it's still in it's soil.

I regularly buy the mixed bags of lettuce for my piggies and myself. I've got 3 pigs and enjoy a bit of lettuce myself. Just check the back of the bags to see what leaves are in it; if in doubt check it out online. :)
 
Misty loves the salad bags, I get her ones from lots of different supermarkets and the living salads are great too. As Splat n Dexter said, check the back to see if they are ok. I avoid the iceberg ones but the ones she likes are the mixed leaves and spinach (although not spinach too often). Misty loves them. I got into buying salad bags as Storm (RIP) was fussy and this was one of the few things she loved.
 
I buy a romaine lettuce and it lasts my two five days, I just keep chopping it up. They do have those bags, but I thought they shouldn't have spinach?
 
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I buy a romaine lettuce and it lasts my two five days, I just keep chopping it up. They do have those bags, but I thought they shouldn't have spinach?
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They can eat spinach but only a small amount, once or twice a weeks at the most as it is high in oxalates I think, or calcium, can't remember which lol rolleyes

Can they eat rocket? I like the baby leaf salad & it always has rocket in it. I'm also worried about Spring greens now, as I read they shouldn't have them too much, again once or twice a week, & that you should give them extra water if you give it? At this rate they will be eating romaine & peppers only :(
 
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