Can GPs have watercress or rocket?

[PacificDogwood]

I have an almost full bag of slightly limp but perfectly edible 'watercress, spinach and rocket' salad leaves I've had some for lunch that I don't think anybody else will want: can I give it to my boys?

Spinach I know is fine (they do rather like it), but the watercress and rocket are a bit spicy, aren't they?

Anybody know?

TIA

my guinea pig eats rocket, not her favourite though!

It's fine for them but depends on their palate ;-). Mine get loose stools with lots of green but this is unusual I think?

Oh thank you

Mine love spinach and kale and spring greens, will eat carrots if there's nothing else on offer (but they judge me) and love cucumber and tomato.

I have never seen a green stool but I thought they eat them again to then produce nice non-offensive poo-pellets? Disgusting creatures

Mine used to eat this all the time, they loved it :)

Oh yes the poo eating is their only downside. : )
Beetroot makes red poo!! Rather alarming.

They eat beetroot? The vegetable the devil himself invented??

They are weirder than I thought.

YY to the rocket/spinach/watercress salad, but only a bit (dark green veg can be high in calcium and something I can't spell like oxilates which can predispose to kidney / bladder stones)

Mine love it, not as keen on rocket alone.

Beetroot -yes. I used to give it to my little Abby boar to put weight on him for winter. And yes, it gives lovely maroon turds . He would get loose poohs with too much grass but he did the Fererro Rocher sized droppings once a week or so (normal ones in between) so I didn't trust his innards.

GP3 and the sows are getting nice and porky , can't give my Himalayan beetroot until Hallowe'en Mwah ha ha

Mmmm, beetroot ;-)

mine love the stuff.

Do you give them beetroot raw or cooked?

Whilst on the subject of food - what about pumpkin and butternut squash? I presume sweet potato is a no-no?

Beetroot raw (only the purple bit not leaves).
Some eat it, GP2 munched a slice or two, GP1 only ate it in a beetroot salad.
My present clan , I don't know, I'm not relishing getting beetroot juice off GP5 (Himmy)

I wouldn't give sweet potato personally, very starchy , but they are safe in small amounts.

A couple of years back there was a thread at Hallowe'en about giving pumpkin to piggies.......it was tried but most of them didn't appreciate it.
Maybe the Lantern Pumpkins weren't to their (very fussy) tastes. Culinary Pumpkins might be better?

I give mine banana in skin. They eat the skin and leave the fruit, fermenting, soft, gooey. For me to find.
Thanks Pigs

It's potato that unsafe, sweet potato is ok but limited

I give mine bananas with skin occasionally - fortunately one seems to like the skin and the other one prefers the flesh so I don't tend to get leftovers.

The thing I've found that they really dislike is courgettes. I thought they love them but have tried a few times now and they have a tentative nibble then spend the rest of the night using them as missiles judging by the mess hutch in the morning.

Will probably steer clear of sweet pots but might try them with a slice of butternut squash. We have a pumpkin so huge they could live in it, never mind eat it!

Had Luna on my lap being hand fed sliced grapes today - spoilt rotten but she does appreciate it, unlike Bella who is still a bitey little bugger

I had my 3 lined up being hand fed bite sized pieces of banana, yesterday. Millie thought it more appealing that way, banana is not her favourite. After eating more banana than I had intended it was supposed to be my banana Naughty dropped hers on the sawdust. She looked at it and ran off in disgust. I wiped the wood off and put it back on the hay. Coco thought waste not, want not and polished it off

WyrdByrd you're a bigger slave than I . I burst grapes so the little darlings don't get juice squirted in their eye

At least neither of us have got to stage of peeling grapes for them yet !

I had to give "cutted up grapes" and strawberries otherwise our little boar would run away with a whole one and refuse to share

"One strawberry" they'd huff .
"Yes, one large strawberry is ample between the two of you otherwise you'll get too much sugar"

They were

Can they eat most fruit and vegetable skins?