General Piggie lettuce

Artista said:

How old is your pig? Spring mix salads tend to have dandelion leaves and other leaves that are high in calcium, and shouldn't be fed daily to 6 mo and older.

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sdpiggylvr said:

Take a look at the ingredients and compare the lettuces with this chart: https://www.guineapigcages.com/foru...vy-Nutrition-Charts-amp-Poisonous-Plants-List. The chart indicates how often you can feed each type of lettuce. The risk of feeding a mix every day is that if the mix has many of the higher calcium greens like spinach, kale, dandelion, etc. then you run the risk of your pigs developing bladder stones from the excess of calcium in their diet. Calcium is necessary for good health, but the dark leafy greens should be limited to an every other day frequency to avoid an excess.

I would try to move away from the mix if possible. Refer to that chart for the different types of vegetables a guinea pig can eat and how often. I usually try to feed each of my guinea pigs one leaf of lettuce (romaine, red leaf or green leaf -- it's different every day), a 1/8 of a bell pepper (red, yellow or green), and maybe 20 sprigs of cilantro each day. Then I add another type of vegetable I have on hand. Maybe a tomato, a slice of cucumber, a bit of parsley, a baby carrot, a bit of kale, a leaf of escarole or endive, etc. Try to feed a wide variety of vegetables without feeding dark leafy greens too frequently.

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