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Herbs Can Pigs eat Mint?

spritrain180

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To widen my Pigs's ( yes, i just got another pig today for Henry!!) diet, i bought some basil,parsley and cilantro plants.
We found a choclate mint plant that smelled really nice so we got it too, is it safe for piggs to eat?
 

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They can have Mint I do believe, but what do you mean by "Chocolate Mint" ?
 

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They can have Mint I do believe, but what do you mean by "Chocolate Mint" ?
It's what the plant it called.It smells like chocolate mint icecream
 

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It's what the plant it called.It smells like chocolate mint icecream

I dunno then..... I don't think I would give them anything besides plain old Mint. You never know what they could have added in to make it smell the way it does.

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I dunno then..... I don't think I would give them anything besides plain old Mint. You never know what they could have added in to make it smell the way it does.

;)
True, but this is a plant we're growing, not store bought packaged, but i'll google it to see..
 

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I found this:
Chocolate mint (Mentha piperita cv.) is a cultivar (cultivated variation) of peppermint. It doesn't actually taste like chocolate but tastes similar to an after-dinner chocolate mint. (Peppermint itself is a hybrid mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint.)

Use of peppermint in its original hybrid may have been taking place as long as 10,000 years ago.

As a form of peppermint, Chocolate Mint shares beneficial qualities including possible radiation protective capabilities for cancer patients undergoing treatment, pain reduction for sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), memory improvement, etc

since it's hybrid is it a no-no?
 

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Chocolate mint plants are lovely! I don't know how "safe" they are, but we used to give a few leafs every once in awhile to our old guinea pig (who lived to the ripe old age of 7), and she enjoyed it! Well, it took a few tries to get her to eat it, but after that she got excited about it.

Worse comes to worse, if your piggies don't like it, it makes a wonderfully refreshing tea!
 

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since it's hybrid is it a no-no?
All "hybrid" means is that it's a cross between two other distinct species/varieties, nothing inherently wrong with that.
 

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Alright thanks, i'll give each of my lovelys a leaf and see if they like it
 
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