As all Guinea-Pig Slaves know, these little furries are very particular when it comes to their food.
Yes, they need their Vitamin C
Yes they have things they cannot eat
Yes they have things that they shouldn't eat alot of.
Mine use this information to be very judgey about what I give them. And sometimes I buy parsley from Supermarket S that they hoover up. But buy it from Supermarket M , they turn their noses up.
So.....are we sitting comfortably. We'll begin.
We have GP1, smooth boar 3.6yo
GP3, Rex boar 10 months
We did have GP2 (brother of the smooth ) Abby type (now RIP)
GP2 loved watermelon,grapes,strawberries,sweetcorn (especially with the leaves) beetroot,sprouts, leaves from the willow tree. He also had terrible gas 
vom , and if he had a day eating grass he had to have hay and pellets for supper , no veg .
GP1 loves grass, dandelions but not clover. Leaves from the pear tree.Parsley, he'd sell his mother for parsley. Carrots but only the ones with leaves, normal ones get left, leaf ones get devoured.
Watermelon, sweetcorn, spinach/rocket/watercress salad
Red /yellow/orange pepper but not green (so much that his pee went peach )
Banana
GP3 loves grass, yellow pepper, brocilli, dandelions, green beans,rocket, celery leaves but not the stalks.
Apple
GP1 has a liking for Cornetto cones
The aren't allowed coriander , it makes them narky.
They don't like mint, basil,
So, add to the list, the more the merrier (and I know there are pigs with eccentric tastes out there)
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Time for a Guinea-Pig Food Thread. We have lots of new piggies joining the Super Furry Animal Team
70isaLimitNotaTarget · 25/04/2014 10:49
Okay - you asked for it
Smoothpig and Scruffy like celery (preferably with leaves), kale, spinach, lettuce, apple, cucumber, parsley, basil, lavender (if their run has been placed too close to the borders) and broccoli. They both love grass, dandelions and clover.
Smooth also likes all colours of pepper, tomatoes and carrots (if he must) and grapes.
Scruffy only eats green veg so will eat green pepper, green grapes and carrot leaves.
They both think strawberries and melon are foreign muck and won't touch them.
They can eat huge quantities of hay - it's the only non-green thing Scruffy eats.
We have 2 x 1 yr old girls. The love dandelions (to the extend that they will fight over them and try to pull a particularly big pile into their tunnel away from the other one 
), cabbage, cauliflower leaves, broccoli stalks, carrot and a small amount of apple. They also love those plantain type plants, which luckily grow all over my lawn.
They really don't like any form of peppers, or pears.
hay-it's the only non-green thing Scruffy eats
welllll, it used to be grass , and grass is............green
My remaining GP (her cagemate died last week 
) loves pak bloody choi!
We've always got some hanging around in the fridge as DD makes a lot of forrin food 
Parsnips are OK then? I've steered clear so far as I think of them as being in the same vein as spuds - looks like the girls are in for a surprise later then .
Is butternut squash OK too?
Parsnips are definitely ok, according to the list of foods given by the rescue when we adopted our girls.
Ok as in safe, anyway. According to the dietcoke pigs it is not ok as far as acceptable foods go
Root veg is quite high in natural sugar but it's safe to give in small amounts.
Ours will get parsnip and turnip on a Sunday but GP1 and GP3 aren't bothered.
There were lots of posts about pumpkin one Hallowe'en, all the SFA GPs were given pumpkin, varying degrees of success.
I give one fruit portion a day, but our little GP2 used to grab a strawerry or a cube of watermelon and run off like a little dog with a bone.
GP1 ran off with red pepper
(I'm sure with potatoes it's the green in the skin that's the trouble. They don't recommend any part of potato, and it's mostly starch so no nutrients for them )
Hi, all, I am a newish owner of 2 little boars - they must be about 4 months old now, from a rescue, one smooth haired, one rexish.
They are still rather shy and skitterish, but are getting bigger (OMG, the rex one just grows by the minute!).
They like:
Dandelion leaves - not the flowers
Parsley - seems to be crack cocaine to them
Coriander they can take or leave, not that keen
Carrot
Cucumber
Cherry tomatoes
Curly kale
Grass
I recently tried a bit of banana and they did not touch it 
.
I've not really given them other fruit yet - maybe I should?
They don't really seem to eat any hay - I am rather taken aback and worried about that. 'Tis proper expensive Timothy hay an'all… 
They are both pooping and weeing in a most satisfactory manner the dirty beggars and are gaining weight, so do I need to worry? I've even tried a different 'brand' of hay - no joy.
Lovely thread btw
On the downside, DS2(10) seems to be allergic to them - came out in wheals and got wheeze after handling them yesterday . They are indoor piggies, but we may need to rethink that.
Pacific my little (not so little ) boar is a Rex and he's 2lb 13oz now (GP1 the older smooth is 7oz lighter)
My DD has a reaction to the Rex, if she holds him near her neck/face she comes out in red blotches, no breathing problems though.
No trouble with GP1 fur or when we had GP2 (Abby)
Rex fur is coarse (we keep finding hay seeds hidden in Dill's coat), but I've read a few articles where owners have reported allergies to Rex. (Blinky namby pamby fancy breeds, )
You could put the hay in a rack or a toilet roll tube to gauge how much they eat? Maybe do that with the naice hay and get some standard hay for bedding (I buy The Range or Jolleys depending on where I am. Jolleys is lovely, like tobacco almost, heady and honeyed smell )
I have two girls, Dora and Diego (my DS wanted a boy and a girl so poor Diego has taken on the boy role as I allowed him two, and only two hence both are girls ). They are about 2 1/2. My girls get Kale as a staple daily food but they love watercress, cucumber, celery, green beans, dandelion leaves, tomato etc.
They were inside for winter and have recently gone outside again so have gone on a kale strike but they are getting plenty of grass.
@ LadyDiego - lovely!
I shall procure cheap'n'nasty supermarket hay next time I'm out shopping.
70, I've tried hay in a corner, hay in a rack, hay in old loo roll (they like nibbling the card board), hay upstairs, hay downstairs, hay hand-fed (they looked at me like this ).
The DSs cut grass for them and then leave all the scissors we own random lying about the lawn. Yes, we are piggie slaves
Ours seem to inhale hay. I put loads in for bedding, loosely packed but so it comes about halfway up the 'bedroom' so they can snuggle in, and the next morning there's a thin layer left.
They also adore grass - there's no point putting veg out for them when they are in their run as it goes totally ignored.
Found some lovely big dandelion leaves for them today. They each approached gingerly, snaffled one and ran off to separate corners of the run to scoff in peace .
They like apples and carrots too - those and cabbage provide their staple diet.
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Hi all!
My tribe of girls were partial to disguising themselves as spinach in the veg garden and scoffing the lot....also loved lurking in the lemon balm, smelling divine when finally rounded up....
Peppers, they loved, banana skins (!), tomatoes and whole meal bread in the winter when supplies of grass and dandelions run short.
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