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How much do you spend on piggy veggies?

loves2travel

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How much do all fo you spend on your veggies for the pigs per month? And how many pigs do you have? I just went on to the caviesgalore site and saw people spending like $30 a week on veggies alone for three piggies!!!!! Do they really eat THAT much!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!????!!!!!!
 
Well, we grow our own cucumbers and cilantro. We buy 6 heads of romaine from Sam's Club every 8 days or so for about $3. and baby carrots (for the dog!) for about $3. I'm sure it will go up a bit in the winter, but another thread talks about getting older veggies from the grocery store for nothing. Take a look at that!
 
Denise said:
Well, we grow our own cucumbers and cilantro. We buy 6 heads of romaine from Sam's Club every 8 days or so for about $3. and baby carrots (for the dog!) for about $3. I'm sure it will go up a bit in the winter, but another thread talks about getting older veggies from the grocery store for nothing. Take a look at that!
yeah i saw that, but I've been looking at many of my local grocery stores and all their vegetables are stored in mesh baskets, so when they are watered, the water will seep right through into a drain below. They don't have any stock of old veggies
 
I went to the grocery store yesterday evening to get some veggies. I spent about £4.00 and I bought romaine lettuce, a couple of carrots and ball peppers and parsely.
 
It varies from place to place as well as week to week. This week, my veggies were:

Romaine lettuce $1.18 a head (got 3)
Bell Pepper 50¢ each (got 2)
Jicama $1.08 a lb (just over a pound)
Parsley, Cilantro 35¢ a bunch (1 each)
Italian Parsley 50¢ a bunch
Baby Carrots $1.25 a bag
Cucumber 30¢ each
Apple $1.89 a bag
Banana 48¢ a lb


I vary what they get though and what I listed above would last me the entire week plus for 5 girls. My kids also eat the carrots, bananas and apples ;)
 
for 2 pigs, would this be an ok menu for one day:

2 baby carrots
About 1/4 of a rwed pepper, sliced up
2 stems of broccoli
A few sprigs of parsely
1/4 head of romaine lettuce
1/4 of an apple for each as treat

is this too much, too little? Are they getting enough vit. c? this is in addition to unlimited timmy hay and 1/8 cup of pellets every day for each of them
 
It sounds like a great list. I don't see anything wrong with it.
 
Piglet said:
It sounds like a great list. I don't see anything wrong with it.
really? ok. any other suggestions? input?
 
veggies

loves2travel said:
How much do all fo you spend on your veggies for the pigs per month? And how many pigs do you have? I just went on to the caviesgalore site and saw people spending like $30 a week on veggies alone for three piggies!!!!! Do they really eat THAT much!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!????!!!!!!
I spend about 50.00 a week on veggies for my 2 pigs. They eat like pigs. I make sure they are getting plenty of Vit-C.
 
$50!!!! A WEEK????

that is a lot, cornhill...and you only have two pigs?

do you feed them exclusive veggies, like from an all-organic store or something? and is that the only thing they have? do they eat pellets on top of that?
 
cornhill, doing the math, for just 2 little pigs, you spend 2,600 dollars a year on veggies alone. That cant be right! Were you being sarcastic?
 
i dont spend much money at all on my pigs vegies because i just use what ever my mom stocks our fridge with and pick from my garden.
 
50? Woah, that is a lot of money. I worked it out and I will be spending about £9 at the most a week, which is not bad.
 
Piglet said:
50? Woah, that is a lot of money. I worked it out and I will be spending about £9 at the most a week, which is not bad.
yeah, thats understandable. but 50???? i thought that was a bit much
 
I spend about $5.00 on every two pigs a week (I thought it was $3 a week but I was wrong), so $22 a week for veggies. (I have nine piggies right now, one isn't mine I am baby sitting it while a friend is on vacation)


For two pigs=
1 romaine lettuce head .50 (cents) (each pig gets half in a week)
1 tomatoe .60 per lb (each pig gets one tomatoe a week, I forget how many I get in a lb.)
1 pint of strawberries $2.00 (but I only use half a pint for two piggies)
Parsely (2 @) .89 cents a head (each pig gets one head)
Bellpepper (1 @) $1.20 (two pigs split one)


I also give them bannanas and oranges and other stuff but I don't count those because I buy them for me and just never get around to eating them.I have a prune tree so they get prunes, and a pear tree but I haven't given them pears yet. Oh ya are strawberries ok for them to have??? I just recently started buying them because one of my pigs likes them.


How in the heck do you spend $50 a week on two pigs???!!!!??? Do you offer them a buffet or something!!!!!!!!!
 
cinn&sprinslave said:
I spend about $5.00 on every two pigs a week (I thought it was $3 a week but I was wrong), so $22 a week for veggies. (I have nine piggies right now, one isn't mine I am baby sitting it while a friend is on vacation)


For two pigs=
1 romaine lettuce head .50 (cents) (each pig gets half in a week)
1 tomatoe .60 per lb (each pig gets one tomatoe a week, I forget how many I get in a lb.)
1 pint of strawberries $2.00 (but I only use half a pint for two piggies)
Parsely (2 @) .89 cents a head (each pig gets one head)
Bellpepper (1 @) $1.20 (two pigs split one)


I also give them bannanas and oranges and other stuff but I don't count those because I buy them for me and just never get around to eating them.I have a prune tree so they get prunes, and a pear tree but I haven't given them pears yet. Oh ya are strawberries ok for them to have??? I just recently started buying them because one of my pigs likes them.


How in the heck do you spend $50 a week on two pigs???!!!!??? Do you offer them a buffet or something!!!!!!!!!
$5 sound a more like it. I was getting worried for some time there...
 
loves2travel said:
$5 sound a more like it. I was getting worried for some time there...
Sorry I kept forgeting to add a some stuff to the total, (lol)!!!!!!!
 
cinn&sprinslave said:
Sorry I kept forgeting to add a some stuff to the total, (lol)!!!!!!!
no, no, no - i said i was getting woried for a minute that i might have to spend like 30 dollars a week on veggies and I cant afford that
 
loves2travel said:
no, no, no - i said i was getting woried for a minute that i might have to spend like 30 dollars a week on veggies and I cant afford that

Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (lol) silly me!!!
 
food

cinn&sprinslave said:
I spend about $5.00 on every two pigs a week (I thought it was $3 a week but I was wrong), so $22 a week for veggies. (I have nine piggies right now, one isn't mine I am baby sitting it while a friend is on vacation)


For two pigs=
1 romaine lettuce head .50 (cents) (each pig gets half in a week)
1 tomatoe .60 per lb (each pig gets one tomatoe a week, I forget how many I get in a lb.)
1 pint of strawberries $2.00 (but I only use half a pint for two piggies)
Parsely (2 @) .89 cents a head (each pig gets one head)
Bellpepper (1 @) $1.20 (two pigs split one)


I also give them bannanas and oranges and other stuff but I don't count those because I buy them for me and just never get around to eating them.I have a prune tree so they get prunes, and a pear tree but I haven't given them pears yet. Oh ya are strawberries ok for them to have??? I just recently started buying them because one of my pigs likes them.


How in the heck do you spend $50 a week on two pigs???!!!!??? Do you offer them a buffet or something!!!!!!!!!
Look at my site and my pictures and you will see what they eat at suppertime alone. They also get treats during the day and yes they have their Cavy Cuisene pellets.
 
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