What Unusual Food Does Your Guinea Pig Like To Eat?

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Nothing too unusual, mine actually tend to be kind of picky. Hadley LOOOOOVES banana, though. They make her go crazy. She will climb vertically up your shirt to try to take your banana! But honestly, mine have been more determined to eat non-food items than food. In her day Linney made a concerted effort to eat plastic bags within her reach, even if she had to climb a stair to get them. Both Frenzy and Hadley loved to eat drywall and baseboards, I have to stop Hadley from eating the walls all the time, and all my baseboards still have Frenzy teethmarks in them.
 
One of my piggies is a cherry lover! I was about to give them their night time cucumber but was eating cherries and after a quick search to make sure it was safe, removed the pit and offered half a cherry to each piggy. My brown aby adored it and was climbing up his cage begging for more! My white one didn't seem interested which was a relief because I was worried he'd get cherry stains all over his white face!
 
update, kankon is big hit! and no adverse effects that i can see
 
Any info as to were to look as to what a good feed is for Guinea pigs and also to know what fruits and veggies they can have?
 
Thelove4piggies said:
Any info as to were to look as to what a good feed is for Guinea pigs and also to know what fruits and veggies they can have?
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Under the food section of the forum is a very detailed veggie guide of what is safe and how often/how much certain veg can be given as well as some important warnings. For example tomatoes are piggie friendly but the green tops are poisonous
 
NOT banana peel! Oh my. On the back of this thread I just gave the gruesome twosome a bit since I have just had my nightly banana. Well. Timmy just gave me the stink eye. Jenny, well Jenny did this weird thing where I thought she might really like it and it was excitement. She looked like she was doing really fast popcorns on the spot. And then she turned her back on it and stalked away and glared at me from her hay tray.

So that was a fail.

Weirdest thing here? Shower curtain. They love that if they can get under the pen fleece.
 
Crumbs from the floor. One of the may joys of having free range piggies. I don't know how Kasper hasn't been ill yet to be honest.
 
Mine tried blueberries, they weren't overly fond and kinda nibbled on half and left it for the human to clear up XD

I'm not sure if it's classed as unusual but my girls adore chard, to the point that I'm growing them some now. They're not overly keep on fruit (how do they not like strawberries?) they'll only eat watermelon and rind, mango in moderation and certain types of pear but they love various herbs (the variety of mint I have didn't go town that well though, it's quite coarse)!

It's hard to vary their diet sometimes so a thread like this is handy!
 
Sorry if this isn't the right spot for this- wondering about pellets- what does every one feed and what would be a good one to have them on?
 
In the US the top brands I hear about are kms hayloft and oxbow. I use oxbow with my girls as kms had expensive shipping as I need to buy in bulk
 
Ok. Thank you. Oxbow is a brand of food right? Sorry- I'm new- just so I know what I'm looking for when I get food for them.
 
Ok. We'll have to see what's cheaper. I know pets art here is much more higher on prices then anywhere ( here at least) but will check it out. Thank you again
 
Anorher question- might not b the place but don't know how to creat a new post-

Can piggies have other hays other then Timothy? I have grass hay for my bunnies- no sprays or anything on it that I feed rather then Timothy.
 
From what I understand grass hays are good, stay away from legume hays such as alfalfa hay. Meadow hay, Timothy hat and other grass blends are good, I think Timothy should be a staple thougj
 
Staple? Not sure what that means. Anyways I get this hay in bales from a friend that feeds it to his horses. I go threw it pretty good before giving it- just wanted to make sure it was ok for piggies before giving it to them.
 
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