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