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Normally I give my girls their veggies once daily in the AM. Would it be better to split it and give it twice (AM and PM)? Maybe give them something to look forward to? Does it matter?
 
I give mine theirs once daily PM but this is mainly for convenience as I don't have much time in the mornings. I don't think it really matters but it might be better to split them for their tummies or as you say to give them something to look forward to. Not sure though. Hope this helps! xx
 
I'm an early riser, so I give mine their grass/veggies and a handful of nuggets in the morning. I just keep some nuggets back for the evening, so that I can give them some at floor time. I don't think it really matters, so long as they have plenty of hay they won't starve (although you wouldn't know it from the racket they make lol)
 
I give mine breakfast of pellets and dinner of veg. And hay, hay, more hay and yet more hay in between as well as grass if the weather is nice and they can go out on the lawn. I agree with @Reenie - you think they were half starved, especially Meg, who has the loudest of wheaks and you can hear her above the other 4!
 
Mine get their veggies in the morning. They get pellets in the evening. This has worked well since I got them a few months ago.
 
I split veg and pellets into two, morning and evening, with unlimited hay. Whenever they get very insistant on veg in between times (every time we open fridge) they get a fresh handful of hay.
 
I do veggies am and if you want I give mine a baby carrot each at night and believe me if I forget the carrot at night I hear about it...and then pellets and hay the rest of the day mine don't seem like huge hay eaters they love the pellets though...
 
Little and often is the best way to give veg!

Mine have a small slice of red pepper or carrot ect first thing in the morning, then every 3 to 4 hours, this reduces the risk of tummy problems, and gives them somthing to look forward to, a boredom breaker if you like
 
My lot get their veggies at night, although my mum often gives them a treat at some point in the day too. Usually grass or dandelions, sometimes a bit of veg. I also scatter feed for enrichment and to make sure everyone has the chance to get the food they want!

I'd like to add that @Jecf I wouldn't recommend giving piggies a carrot every day as it's high in sugar and could result in obesity or diabetes. Carrots are twice a week at most in my house :)
 
Cavy Kung-Fu said:
My lot get their veggies at night, although my mum often gives them a treat at some point in the day too. Usually grass or dandelions, sometimes a bit of veg. I also scatter feed for enrichment and to make sure everyone has the chance to get the food they want!

I'd like to add that @Jecf I wouldn't recommend giving piggies a carrot every day as it's high in sugar and could result in obesity or diabetes. Carrots are twice a week at most in my house :)
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Not a full carrot a baby carrot
And I'm going by what a,women on YouTube does and she has done the same routine with hers for7 years with no problems...
 
Noted you have your opinion and I have mine ...
Btw a baby carrot has 0.5 g of sugar less than a bell pepper which most give on a daily bases...
 
Jecf said:
Noted you have your opinion and I have mine ...
Btw a baby carrot has 0.5 g of sugar less than a bell pepper which most give on a daily bases...
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Perhaps a whole bell pepper, but not many pigs have a whole one of those a day. People feed them as they're good to for piggies because they are high in vitamin C which carrots aren't unfortunately. Although piggies adore carrots (like I do chocolate!) it's not as nutritionally beneficial as other fruit and veg.

Obviously you can feed what ever you choose, I just like help with recommended foods and frequency when it comes up! There are some great threads on here regarding foods and frequency that are great to have a browse of :)
 
Hence why it's a treat but saying it's high in sugar when evidently it isn't and saying stay away from it is not your decision to make for others and half a bell pepper which I give to two of my boars has more sugar than a baby carrot it's like cucumber has no benifit either but can be given daily if you want...but you are the expert so guess I shut up now.
 
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Your reply is rude for no reason. Can you not discuss this as an adult without resorting to that tone? By all means put your point across but maybe drop the attitude.

I give mine 1/8th (aprox) of a pepper a day (each). They hardly ever get carrot as I have read it isn't good for them to have often.
 
Carrots are better than fruits and I use baby carrots meaning tiny little carrots not the big ones,you see bugs bunny eating..and I hardly give fruits unless you count tomato which I give them a small grape,tomato a day and yes,I know,it can cause,mouth sores,but a small grape,one is,usually safe and haven't seen any sores yet I've even gone down to one small one,divide between 2 boars so they get like,half a grape,tomato each and they get green leaf lettuce and half a bell pepper or,a,1/4 each a day ..and at night one baby carrot each...i also give a few piece of cilantro...and been doing this for almost 3,mo and they gain maybe a ounce a week one is 1 pound 7 ounce and id say he is about 5 mo old the other about the same he is 1 pound 6 ounces..
 
Whilst you can make your own decisions as to what you feed your piggies, this thread was asking for advice, and you gave nutritional advice which is contrary to what would be recommended by experts. More experienced or expert members have a duty to correct this and ensure that the member who requested advice in the first place receives the correct information based on current nutritional expertise.
 
Evidently they need to do research as well as saying something is high in sugar when it isn't..but whatever everyone needs to be right even if wrong
 
And I guess we need to stop feeding bell pepper as it's high in sugar as well ...yiu ever see a day Vegetarian...
 
Please refrain from bad language, this is a family friendly forum. If you choose to feed carrots every day that's your prerogative, I just needed to inform others that it's not recommended and why, based on current research rather than someone from a YouTube video.

This forum is about information and helping one another, so that's what I was trying to do. However we have completely hijacked the poor original posters thread so I suggest we call it a day.
 
Jecf said:
Hence why it's a treat but saying it's high in sugar when evidently it isn't and saying stay away from it is not your decision to make for others and half a bell pepper which I give to two of my boars has more sugar than a baby carrot it's like cucumber has no benifit either but can be given daily if you want...but you are the expert so guess I shut up now.
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I've toned your reply down. Please think of our junior members. ;)
 
Jecf said:
Hence why it's a treat but saying it's high in sugar when evidently it isn't and saying stay away from it is not your decision to make for others and half a bell pepper which I give to two of my boars has more sugar than a baby carrot it's like cucumber has no benifit either but can be given daily if you want...but you are the expert so guess I shut up now.
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you are not wrong...;) the glycemic index of bell peppers and (row!) carrots is just the same. They are both made of 80-90%water (bell peppers have 92% water, more than carrots) and have about 4-5% of sugars. Carrots have a higher level of carbs but that is due for a higher level of fibres which do not affect glycemia. Of course it depends on the weight of the carrot and the pepper we give them and the carrots have another problem for piggies. Piggies, differently to us, absorb ALL the vit A contained in food (we absorb only a little amount) and for this reason their liver can be damaged with the excess of such vit A. My former piggie who also used to eat only carrots and pellets had huge inner damages during the years. Now, you can say that other piggies eat a lot of carrots and have a great and long life and I can say that my stubborn Grandmother lived 98 years eating only cheese, butter and some pasta. Anyway also my grandmother developed serious damages. Another example: a lot of people burn their skin under the sun and never develop melanoma... but this is not the right rule to be followed, though.
Carrots are extremely rich of vit A and sugars.
Actually piggies should not even be fed with vegs... as they are NOT vegetarians but herbivores... a totally different story! herbivores are able to use the fibres of the grass, something we cannot do. Grass is rich of vit C (and also D... and our indoor piggies might have a benefit by this). The worry of the deficiency of vit C can make damages, too, not because the vit C is dangerous (the excess goes out with urine) but because an excess of vegs (which have also a different ph compared with grass and hay) may have too many sugars and may be not natural for them. Personally I prefer giving them a little supplement, only because the grass now available is not the good wild one, but the one from seeds, grown in few days with water in private garden... I cannot be sure of its nutritional value (and I am not even sure of the value of bell peppers stored into the fridge; vit C decreases very fast into the fridge and after the harvest). You all also use the supplement... the one you find into pellets (I use only very few pieces of pellet as a treat).
All these things I have written come from serious and valued sources, although the talk about vit A is more complex...
(and after this talk I am going and eat a big piece of chocolate!:woot: bye!:drool:)
 
@Rochester Piggy The link says just the same, but there are a lot of studies about the importance of hay and grass. Fresh grass is rich of minerals and vitamins and guts of herbivores work better with grass/hay than with (too many) vegs. I follow Guinea Lynx rules and other researches I have read: illimited hay and grass, max 10g pellets (few pieces) and not more than 80-100g vegs. But fresh grass can substitute a veg and it is even better. Unfortunately people consider the grass as a poor food, go to the market to buy a salad and does not drive to a good lawn to cut the grass, but this is a mistake. Search online the charts of nutritional values of different grasses and you will realise that no veg has similar properties, of course for those guts able to digest fibres...
My piggies have grown eating fresh grass (plus some little piece of vegs and NO pellets) and have developed a very strong gut and a good health: perfect poo, perfect teeth (vegs don't erode teeth as the grass does), perfect wee and perfect weight... Of course they don't have the eternal life but I go on like this and I go on reading and following only the latest researches published on vet journals (and even the ones about human diabetes/ovarian cysts conducted on guinea pigs in labs).
 
I feed my piggies twice a day but I guess it depends on what is convenient for the piggie owner and their schedule. Your schedule becomes their schedule and i doubt the piggies are really upset if they are only being fed their veg once a day if its all they know.
 
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