So we recently found that it's okay to feed romaine lettuce to guinea pigs, so we started feeding that. Our two male guinea pigs ate it - and they eat it fast. We give them quite a lot, and they don't seem to stop eating. However, we're having to refill our hay rack less and less often and the water bottle is pretty much full every day, so I'm dumping out a whole bottle of water every day to refill it. This is probably because of the water content in the lettuce, but I just want to make sure. Also, they're no longer eating baby carrots like they used to - they just poke it around rather than gobble it up, and carrot leaves get trampled around. Should I cut back on the lettuce? Should the diet be more hay or more fresh vegetables? Not sure how much we give them every day, but between the two it's about half a bunch of lettuce per day, which is approximately 100-150g. We like to feed them whenever they come up to the side of the cage and ask for it.
The pigs are about 6 months old, about 18oz in weight each.
On both weekends, we set them out on the lawn in the playpen so they can eat the grass (no pesticides or nasty chemicals), is that good? Or should we leave out alternative food choices for them?
Overall, should we find more veggies to put in the cage or is romaine lettuce a good staple?
The pigs are about 6 months old, about 18oz in weight each.
On both weekends, we set them out on the lawn in the playpen so they can eat the grass (no pesticides or nasty chemicals), is that good? Or should we leave out alternative food choices for them?
Overall, should we find more veggies to put in the cage or is romaine lettuce a good staple?