[Gpdd] Care: Food question answered

[Candace Long]

I posted a few days ago and received personally the following information.  Just thought it would be
good for everyone to know.  Thanks Dawnda for the great information.
 
Nasturtium would be a no no for guinea pigs.

Watercress is another name for them and they take vitamin C out of the body. Since we are always
giving guinea pigs more vitamin C, we certainly don't want to give them something that would take it
out.




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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:04:26 -0800

From: "Candace Long" <happyclong at cox.net>

Subject: [Gpdd] Care: Food question

To: "GPDD" <gpdd at gpdd.org>

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I had a question posed to me by someone that I am mentoring and I don't know the answer to it. If

anyone has any info, it would be appreciated (in the interim I will tell her not to feed it to her

babies). She wants to know if she can feed "nasturtium" to her piggies. Her mom has some in her

garden (she is from Australia) and she says they are edible for humans, but doesn't know if it ok

for our little ones.

Candace (slave to) Spirit, Dizzy, Patches, Furby, Snowball, Poppie, Gizmo, Rosebud and Wooley