How much fresh produce do your pigs get daily?

[pigsforlife]

I am interested to know how much your guinea pigs get in regards to fresh produce.

My 4 sows get:
- A heaped plateful (or one of those old, tall lunch boxes filled to the top) twice a day
- Their daily foods include:
- Cos Lettuce (romaine lettuce)
- Green and Yellow capsicum (bell peppers)
- Corriander (cilantro)
- Wheat Grass
- Baby Carrots + leaves
- Corn Husks
- The foods they get frequently:
- Parsley
- Red Capsicum (bell peppers)
- Celery Leaves (they wont eat the actual celery, just the leaves)
- Foods they get occasionally:
- Basil
- Thyme
- Apple

[Jenni_Feathers]

For my 2 boars:
They each get a cereal bowl filled with

Daily:
Romaine Lettuce
Endive
Green Bellpepers
Carrot

Every other day (not all on the same day each on a dif day)
Tomato
Parsley
Cucumber

Once or twice a week:
Grapes
Apple

[Pandora4co]

My two Boys get

Daily -
Romain
Endive
Cilantro
1 baby Carrot each
1Cherry Tomato each
GreenPepper
Yellowpepper
Parsley**
Peas**

Frequently
Beans
BokChoy
Dandlion
Cucumber
Red Pepper
Celery

Occasionally
Asparagus
Artichoke
Brocoli
Apple
Orange
Strawberry

I've only had my boys for about 3 months and they will eat about anything! Except Zuchini or Squash - they will not touch it!

** I know too that the peas and parsley aren't really supposed to be given everyday, but parsley is Patches favoriate and snappeas are Piglets favorite. So I will give each a small bit (one sprig of parsley and about 1/2 a peapod) before each feeding. I give them more of it every couple days.

OH - I just noticed the question really was how MUCH they get - I serve them on a dinner size paper plate and it is usually covered and mounded up... they get this amount twice a day. Usually they will graze at the plate for about an hour.

[envisionary333]

My 11 piggies get two huge platefuls of food every day, stacked about 2"-3" high! They go through it all in about 10 minutes, it's rather amazing. Just about every day they get these items split amongst them:

At least three types of lettuce (green leaf, red leaf, romaine, endive, escarole, etc.)
A big pile of cilantro
10-11 cherry tomatoes
5-10 slices of zucchini
1-2 bell peppers (green, yellow, orange, and occasionally red)
1 large carrot

They get a wide variety of other stuff mixed in depending on what I have, including parsley, cucumber, celery, apples, grapes, oranges, strawberries, etc.

[aqh88]

To list everything my pigs get in a month would take all night, I like variety, but 3 will eat about 1 1/2lbs of grass, fresh forages, and vegetables per day. That's around the amount that fits in 1 plastic grocery bag because that's how I weighed it out. Threw it all in a bag and set it on the scale everyday for a week to get an average of how much they were eating without having to add every single item seperately.

[i-love-nev]

My pigs get about 3 cups daily (each) so that would be about 21 cups a week = 84 cups a wheek!

[pigsforlife]

BokChoy

How could I forget Bok Choy? Bok Choy would have to be one of the girls favourite vegetables although they do not get it daily.

Thanks for all of your replies guys. It is interesting (for me anyway) to compare diets between other piggy owners.

[i-love-nev]

like aqh88 it would take forever to list every veggies my pigs eat! He he

[JarBax]

Have you seen this thread? (I'm not about to type all that out again), but gives you an idea of what others feed! I've actually cut down on the amounts as my girls weren't eating quite as much hay as they should - something to be aware of.

[ctinaw]

I have 2 pigs.

Their 2 favorites - they get these everyday:

Green lettuce of some sort and a big handful of either parsley or cilantro. They seem to prefer parsley though. 2 petite baby carrots (they are actually smaller than baby carrots hehe).

Then an assortment of the following - whatever happens to be in my fridge:
A couple green beans
Zucchini
Cucumber
baby tomatoes
bell peppers - whichever color I have on hand

Once a week or so I give them each an orange slice. They LOVE that. They both turn their nose up at apples.

I've offered aspargus but they weren't goin for that at all.

I admit I only feed mine veggies once a day on weekdays, but they get a morning snack on weekends as well.

[ctinaw]

Ooo bok choy - I hadn't thought of giving that actually. It gives me an excuse to buy some - i love that stuff.

[YANGLiCiOUS]

My 4 girls would get quite big bowls of stuffs.
And it depends on what I've as well.