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Feeding your Guinea Pig
Every day, I feed my guinea pig fresh vegetables and occasionally a little fruit. Fresh foods play an important role in your guinea pigs diet, along with unlimited quality hay, pellets and water. Fresh foods also help to make your guinea pigs diet tasty and interesting. They also contain a natural source of vitamins that your guinea pig needs, especially the all important vitamin c.
My guinea pig has a good variety of fresh foods, usually around 4 types of fresh food daily. I usually give 2 types of vegetable in the morning and 2 in the evening, so she has something tasty to look forward to twice daily. She also occasionally gets the odd treat in the middle of the day, like a piece of apple or grapes.
All vegetable and fruit portions listed are for one guinea pig. - Never feed all of these in one week.
Broccoli: Half a floret, including the stalk, twice weekly..
Carrot: One baby carrot or a small slice of a large carrot, every other day.
Romaine Lettuce: One large leaf, twice weekly. Never give guinea pigs iceberg lettuce, its not nutritious and it can give them upset an tummmy and diarrhoea. To be on the safe side, I give my piggy Romaine lettuce and none of the other varieties.
Celery: One 1/4 of a stick, weekly. Very stringy so needs to be chopped up into small pieces to avoid piggys choking.
Dandelion Leaves: Two or three, average size, twice weekly, seasonal food during spring and summer.
Fresh Grass: Small handful, three times weekly, Or piggies go outside to eat fresh grass for themselves on warm sunny days. When spring has arrived and your grass has started to grow, just give your piggies a small amount of grass to begin with so their tummies adjust.
Baby Tomato's: One baby tomato or small plum tomato, every other day. Remember to remove the poisonous tomato top ( green part ). If using a slice from a larger tomato, remove seeds.
Cucumber: Very little nutritional value, but has high water content and is loved by most guinea pigs. One slice, include the outer layer which is their favourite part. Given every other day. Cucumber is really appreciated by guinea pigs in hot weather, it acts as a liquid and is nice and cool. A little like us enjoying an ice lolly.
Parsley: Quarter of a handful, twice weekly.
Apple: One small slice, include peel, twice weekly, remove core and pips. Many fruits are full of natural sugar and have fruit acid. To avoid your guinea pig getting a sore mouth, cut all fruit into small pieces and just give as an occasional treat because of the high sugar content.
Pear: One small slice, include peel, twice weekly, remove core and pips.
Seedless Grapes: One or two, must be seedless, three times weekly.
Satsumer Pieces: One or two segments, remove rind and pips, give weekly. You can give a a little of any orange citrus fruit.
Corn on the Cob: Roughly a dozen tiny segments, twice weekly.
Green Beans: Two or three green beans, twice weekly.
Remember, Don't over feed your piggy!
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Feeding Your Guinea Pig.
