What Can Guinea Pigs Eat? Part 4 – Poisonous for Guinea Pigs!

WARNING – Everything mentioned on this section can be poisonous for your Guinea Pigs and should avoid them at all costs.

Who’s ready for the final part of ‘What can Guinea Pigs eat?’

This series has been really fun and educational to do on my behalf. I have enjoyed every moment of it and I hope you all have too.

So What Is Poisonous For Our Guinea Pigs??

Daisies and Buttercups

Daisies and buttercups are poisonous to guinea pigs and so is a yellow flower, similar to the buttercup, called the celandine. Buttercups and daisies can be found in gene grass during the spring and summer. This means you need to be careful when picking grass so you don’t pick the flowers, leaves or stems.

Grass Clippings

Guinea Pigs can not eat grass clippings. This can be down to chemicals from the lawnmower being passed onto the clippings and you can also pick up toxic plants whilst mowing.

Dock Leaves

Guinea Pigs can eat young dock leaves, but aren’t safe to eat when they are seeding or after seeding. The leaves appear first and are high in oxalis acid, so shouldn’t be fed in large quantities.

Rhubarb Leaves and Stalks

Potato’s and Potato Leaves

Potatoes and potato leaves are poisonous to your Guinea Pigs. Green potatoes are especially dangerous as they are high in solanine, which is a glycoalkaloid poison.

Meat

Guinea pigs shouldn’t eat meat or consume any other animal products like milk, cheese, yoghurt, ice cream, eggs, honey, ham, bacon, chicken, fish or anything that comes from an animal. Guinea pigs are herbivores, which means they eat plant based foods so they’re vegan.

Rabbit Food

Guinea pig and Rabbit food are two completely different things even though they look identical, they have different ingredients. The main difference is that vitamin C is added to Guineas Pigs food as they can produce it themselves, whereas rabbits can.

Human Food

Guinea pigs shouldn’t eat food that is made for humans. No we don’t mean fruit or veg, we mean processed food, like bread, chocolate, crisps, biscuits, popcorn, toast, chips, weetabix, cereal, Doritos, pizza, frozen veg or frozen fruit.

Seeds and Nuts

Guinea pigs shouldn’t eat seeds or nuts as they are a chocking hazard for one and they can digest them properly. Nuts are also high in fat.

Dried Fruit

Dried fruit shouldn’t be fed to your guinea pigs. They aren’t toxic, but has concentrated sugar.

When buying treats and food mixes, make sure you look at the ingredients. A lot of them are known for having seeds, yoghurt milk and sugar in them, which isn’t good for our little furries. Some food mixes may also contain unsuitable ingredients. Just because they say are they suitable for guinea pigs, doesn’t always mean they are.