SUITABLE FRUIT & VEGETABLES FOR GUINEA PIGS

SUITABLE FRUIT & VEGETABLES FOR GUINEA PIGS
CULTIVATED:
Apple – in moderation
Banana – including skin
Beetroot (raw) - quartered
Broccoli - leaves and stems
Cabbage - all kinds, dark green
leaves preferred
Cauliflower - leaves and stems
Carrot
Celeriac
Celery
Chicory
Corn on the cob – silk, leaves, corn
and all.
Cucumber
Dill
Fennel
Kale
Lettuce - a little occasionally only -
contains Laudanum
Mangold
Melon rind
Parsley
Parsnips - will eat a little
Pea pods
Pear – though not popular
Runner beans – and leaves
Spinach - a little only - very high in
Oxalic acid
Spring greens
Strawberry leaves
Swedes
Tomatoes – some guinea pigs will
eat these
WILD:
Bramble - young leaves only,
remove thorns
Chickweed - has white flowers –
don’t confuse it with Scarlet
Pimpernel which is poisonous
Cleavers - Goosegrass
Clover
Coltsfoot
Dandelion
Dock - young leaves only, not after
it goes to seed
Grass – all time favourite!
Ground Elder - as for Dock, young
leaves in Spring only
Groundsel - if rust and fungus free
Mallow
Plantain
Shepherd's purse
Sow thistle or Milk thistle
Vetch
Watercress - a little only – be
aware of liver flukes if picked
from streams
Yarrow
SAFE GARDEN FLOWERS:
Asters
Cornflowers
Golden rod
Marigolds - calendula
Nasturtiums
Phlox
Sunflowers
Sweet peas
Wallflowers
POISONOUS PLANTS:
Bracken
Bryony
Bulbs - any plant growing from a
bulb – Daffodils, Crocus etc.
Buttercup
Clematis
Convolvulus - any of the
bindweeds
Dock when seeding
Elder
Foxglove
Iris/Flag
Laburnum
Lily of the valley
Lupins
Mares tails
Poppies
Potato leaves
Privet
Ragwort
Rhododendron
Rhubarb leaves
Scarlet pimpernel
Speedwell
Spurge