What Your Guinea Pigs Should Be Eating
Daily Feeding
1.Water - unlimited supply of clean water, topped up and refilled daily.
2.Hay - unlimited supply of fresh, clean hay and replaced once soiled. Hay should be thin, grassy stalks, NOT brittle or large stalked yellow straw.
3.Dry food mix - with added vitamin C. Guinea pigs should be given around 10mg of vitamin C per day (Double the quantity for pregnant sows) through their dry and fresh food intake. Safe Vegetables
Gerty Guinea Pig is a dry food mix fortified with vitamin C. To ensure all the vitamin benefits all of the contents of the mixture need to be eaten.
For choosey cavies a pellet mix like Supa Guinea Excel is the better option because each pellet has equal quantities of the required vitamins.
4.Vegetables and fruit - A good, daily handful of fresh vegetables and fruit per cavy. Remember to choose vegetables rich in vitamin C as this is the most important contributer to their necessary vitamin intake.
Food Table Safe Fruit Dangers Tomato Apple Docks Cucumber Pear Daisy Sweetcorn Grapes Buttercup Carrots Oranges Privet Celery Melon Plants Grown from Bulbs Lettuce, Romaine only Apple Belladonna (deadly nightshade) Cabbage Banana Foxglove Pepper, Bell Peach Crocus Peas Apricot Poppy Spring greens Mango Bryony Mustard greens Elder Kale Oak Spinach Hyacinth Runner Beans Beech Broccoli Lily of the valley Cauliflower leaves Lobelia Swede Delphinium Turnip Rabbit/Hamster Food
(they are unsuitable and toxic)Parsnip Nuts Pumpkin Milk Products Asparagus Ivy and its berries Brussel Sprouts Peppers (HOT) Cantaloupe Tomato Leaves Parsley Mushrooms Dandelion Leaves Lettuce, Iceberg Beet Greens Raw Potato Onion Garlic Celery Leaves Rhubarb Avocado > Apples, for cavies prone to scabbing