Considering New Diet
We would love to be able to grow Hay and Wheat grass on our deck but we know there are rats and raccoons that come around at night so wouldn't feel comfortable giving anything grow outside to them knowing that both species can carry nasty diseases (I once had to go on antibiotics myself after contracting Leptospirosis from rats after falling in a canal, long story ;))
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My Lacey is a bit of a chub as well. One of the ways I get her moving is a wiffle ball with diced peppers and carrots inside. The Dollar Tree has packs of 2 baseball-size plastic balls with holes in them. I drop the veggies in the holes and Lacey rolls the ball around to get the veggies to fall out. She’s not much of a chewer so she’s not chewing the plastic. Also, cardboard paper towel tubes cut about 5” long with a couple of holes in each side. I put 1 tablespoon of pellets inside and fold the ends in. She likes to roll that around.
Our new pig will eat a n y t h i n g, which is great! She LOVES cherry tomatoes... :)
Philly on the other hand....ate red peppers once out of the like five times I've given them to her. Still workin on it, but she is a bit of a picky piggy. Might try like....shaving them really fine and hiding them in her lettuce. Already tried cutting them up SUPER small, but she has evaded them adeptly!
Maybe she'll try some green or yellow instead...only time will tell!!!
Philly on the other hand....ate red peppers once out of the like five times I've given them to her. Still workin on it, but she is a bit of a picky piggy. Might try like....shaving them really fine and hiding them in her lettuce. Already tried cutting them up SUPER small, but she has evaded them adeptly!
Maybe she'll try some green or yellow instead...only time will tell!!!
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Here's a post I wrote for another forum on how to teach pigs to eat vegetables: https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/th ... vegetables
When you dice them, make them TINY, like a pencil eraser in 12-15 pieces, and put them on the pellets. Do one veggie for several days, and then offer a larger piece. If they eat it, continue with the larger pieces and start dicing another veggie. If they don't, keep dicing the same one for another several days.
When you dice them, make them TINY, like a pencil eraser in 12-15 pieces, and put them on the pellets. Do one veggie for several days, and then offer a larger piece. If they eat it, continue with the larger pieces and start dicing another veggie. If they don't, keep dicing the same one for another several days.