Walk with Me Through my Back Yard & See What Edible Weeds I Forage for the Guinea Pigs. FREE FOOD!
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See what grows in my back yard and what is edible for you and your pigs. I love free food! Forages and plants covered in this video are Spurge, Horse Weed, Amaranth, Mint, Kale, Fountain Grass, Crab Grass, Purslane, Tomato, Collard Greens, Radish, New Zealand Spinach, Sorghum, Thistle, Dandelion and Borage.
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I love pulling up grass from the yard for my girls. They think it's a special treat and it was free! Win win situation
mszoomy me too And if you can find the dandelion it’s a win win win
What is, safe for them eat outside besides clovers
@@melodywiercinski3079 watch the video 😂 that’s what it’s about
@@melodywiercinski3079 grass wildflowers all kinds of things just be carefully about pesticides and fertilizerd
I tried mint once. As you said, their nose did not like it at all, but I got one to nibble it and she eats the leaves 😊 I told her she had a lovely breath when I got kisses after 😂
Thanks Saskia for sharing your wealth of knowledge and educating on proper piggy care! I've learned so much from you :) You are a loving soul and I continue to absorb all that you put out there. Thank you!
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I always forget to look outside my door! 😁 thanks for the reminder. My piggies are very happy you reminded me.
Grass is the best free piggie food! It makes all my pigs really happy.
I love that lipstick Saskia, it really suits you.
Thank you Amanda!!! it is a new color I just discovered. (I am such a girl)
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue There's nothing wrong with liking a nice lipstick :D
My poor man's Virginia lawn is my guinea herd garden delight.
I live in VA and am new on learning what I can get from my yard. Do you have any recommendations?
I grow grass in containers on my porch so I'm sure that there not sprayed. I could never take from the yard with the chance they would get sick. I loved your video gave me more ideas to plant . 😉👍
Yay!
Thanks, Saskia for another educational video, it inspired me to go outside in my neighborhood and see what I could find for my piggies to eat. My 4 boys and 3 girls loved what I picked out for them and devoured it!
What did you find?
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue Dandelions, grass and a neighbor of mine saw me picking dandelions we got to talking and she grows cilantro and mint and she was generous enough to give me some for my piggy's.
Oh yay!!! Great job!
I have a garden full of leaves but I dont know if they can have any of it.... aside from the tomato leaves that I now know they cant have..... I also have pepper plants, oregano, parsley, basil and eggplant plants. Yay or nay?
Yes on all - no on the eggplant. Good luck whweeek
I have recently adopted my first guinea pigs since moving to Oregon, & I’m thrilled that the “natural” lot that my house sits on is lush with fresh weed food for the piggies. They holler for it, whenever I go in & out the door! 😊❤️
Just love these videos Saskia. Foraging is definitely one of my favorite activities - there's so much free food out at the moment (still winter here). I put all the hay from the piggies cages on my garden as mulch. I give them oaten hay (and ryegrass) every day and the seeds sprout once they are in the garden and there is some rain. I am now picking big bunches of beautiful, lush oaten grass and the piggies just love it. It's such a joy just listening to them all munch contentedly. Happy times.
Winter here in CA is actually the best time for greens growing as it is so dry here in summer. I guess it is the same for you there? australia?
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue Yes, Australia - South Australia, so very hot, dry summers here :-).
Do you live in an Area that has Council owned gardens? I live in Queensland country town and I know 1 of the gardeners on the council. So I can pick weeds from the park gardens and even the local council office gardens. My friend gives me time to pick the weeds and then the gardening team will dig out any weeds I haven't picked. I also have a couple of friends who own Local businesses and I can go and pick grass and weeds from their gardens and lawn.
My lawn is full of 'piggy set' weeds(thistle, purslane, dandelion), tomato plants and the odd patch of Oats (which my gang go nuts for, when they get a sniff of it). Right now it is Winter here(Australia), so my lawn is looking abit bare.
Hallo Saskia. Ik vind je video's erg leerzaam. Ik heb zelf jarenlang cavia's gehad en vind het geweldige dieren. Je doet supergoed werk. Ik vind het leuk te ontdekken dat je uit Nederland komt🇳🇱
Around here people use a LOT of ornamental sweet potato vine because it grows like mad. The leaves are edible and my wheeker loves it. A popular plant combo or border pairing is the fountain grass in back with the sweet potato vine in front. Easy way to landscape guinea pig food, ha.
I used to take blackberries and their leaves for mine, they didn't like the berries much but they loved the dried leaves, I spent ages taking the small thorns off them.
My goodness you have your hands full ! You are truly one with nature. I admire that Sas.
Cat nip is super prolific! We had one little plant in a corner of our box garden and the next year we found it spread across the yard growing in the grass and clay (we have terrible dirt)!
oooh nice! They love that stuff. Those soft green blades.
After months and months of watching your videos and Scotty’s and a few other Guinea pig owners’ videos, I officially got my first piggie! He’s a rehome situation so we’re taking things slow and getting to know each other. So far so good! He’s never had “wild greens” until yesterday after I got him home and gave him dandelion. I thought he was going to swallow it whole he liked it so much! Ty for showing me the “free wild stuff “ they can eat. My Champ thanks you as well!
Beautiful
I leave a section by our trampoline unmowed for just this purpose. St Augustine, crabgrass, and some other kind I cant remember. Bluegrass, or Ryegrass or something. Its the freshest food they eat. For anyone living in Florida, the pigs really enjoy Dollarweed, and you can eat it too! Tastes like celery.
Dit had ik eerder gezien toch 🤔😉😉😉
Bij mij in de tuin groeit ook lavendel, munt, peterselie dille en een vreemde plant cubaguu (callisia repens) gekocht in een dierenwinkel in Duitsland en gezet in mijn kleine caviamoestuin gras en riet 😍😍😍😍😍gave flog okay zaaiook wat mais of bietjes heerlijk😘😘😘
14:35 she's so sweet she apologies to the plant for picking it 😂😄
I would be careful with the wood sorrel, the "clover" that you took at 14:15. It is high in oxalic acid which can exacerbate stone issues in stone piggies! Giving it as a treat in moderation to non-stone pigs is fine though!
Its grate that you give your gunipigs fresh grass greens and vegys they are so happy ♥️♥️♥️
Please do another like this!!
Dandelion leaves are a favorite for my boys! They didn't get veg before me so they're super picky, mostly willing to eat what we forage 😊
ik ga straks plukken in het park dankjewel lieve saskia💋🌈🎊🎉
Leuk!! Veel plezier.
Thank you for all your 💖 and care for guinea pigs I have two girls lol😇
You are so very welcome!! Wheek
I love foraging i just wish i was more experienced in identifying the various plants we have growing
First! Love your video and what you do for guinea pigs!!!❤️
Daryl and Herschel 😂 Cute!! I used to be obsessed with the Walking Dead
daryl is like, ill be taking that thank you very much. MINE
the guinea pigs we had loved Dandelions and the leaves
My pigs will gobble up the dandelion, grass, mint, and clover I bring for them. Their favs are the clover flowers which look like little white cotton balls.
I was screaming ITS MINT ITS MINT!!!! I had planted mint a couple years ago as a pretty but edible part of a memorial for my grandmother. I DID NOT like it.. however now my piggie will have fresh mint! I'm so happy it worked out.
I have a patch of lawn that is just for my girls. This year a lot of dill came up. Since I don't treat my yard chemically I have a bounty in my backyard. And I have a salad spinner to clean and dry them just for the girls. It is great to show all the nice treats available.
Great I'm gonna go to my community park to check for some free food
Let me know what you find!!!
Be careful collecting in public places, you never know if weed killer, fertilizer, bug spray or any other toxic thing has been sprayed there
mszoomy that’s the main reason I don’t pick up in public places. One never know.
My community park doesn't do anything like that tho. They can't afford to fix or add anything there.
And of course they wouldn't do that cause younger children play on the grass. There are dogs and other animals that like there too.
Thanks Saskia! Love you and all that you do!!!
You are SO so so welcome!! 😍
I so happy to have discover this video. I immediately went outside and looked at my grass, an saw quite a few plants that you shown in your video.So I collected a few, and the guinea pig actually like them, wow all this time I had free food outside my door..Thank you!!!
Yay I am so happy to hear this! ❤
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Ik volg je al maanden en hoor dat je uit nederland komt ,leuk gr van mij
Hoi Ingrid! Ja ik ben een Rotterdamse.
Ik kom uit leiden,ik heb zoveel geleerd van je dank je wel
En geweldig wat je doet voor de cavias
Hello from Slovakia /Europe/. I love all your piggies!!!!
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sweet! I got land in Colorado. I hope to have a little rescue one day....
I love purslane! My pigs do too, but it’s so yummy added with a salad. My girls love dandelions, tomatoes, grasses, and oxalis. They don’t get oxalis often, but they go nuts for it! They also reap the benefits of herb garden cuttings I cannot use fast enough on my own.
Oh for sure. They get it like twice a year. They’re so funny with it though. They only eat the leaves! They’ll pick around the stems and flowers.
My previous guinea pig loved Queen Anne’s lace/wild carrots and would sing as he ate it
I love this video. I have a lot of weeds growing in my own yard, and some of what you showed are the same weeds I see growing. My piggies thank you!
You are very welcome!!
I love ,love your videos. I learned a lot about guinea pigs!
I never knew about Purslane but its everywhere in upland cali my Castiel loves it
You can eat it it too!
Love this. We go out a couple times a week and pick dandelion, grasses, plantain and clovers. We pick enough for a few days and store in the fridge. We also grow some kale, tomatoes, peppers and mint. Love this time of year to go out and get nice fresh nutritious foods. Thanks for sharing! 😍
Great job!!!!!
I live in the Netherlands and really close to a huge park full of weeds, grass and other plants. Saskia, if you were there you would go crazy and be buzy collecting all these plants for days!!
Next week i will be going to the park to collect some stuff for my girls! They are going to love it!💕
I also made a little notebook with safe plants they can eat, so because of this video i can add some more stuff to that notebook❤
I was in NL and went nuts with all the great greens everywhere.
Most parks use pesticides so be careful!
At this park they don't do that!!😙❤
Tip to all piggy owners , get yourself some seed trays , put some compost in about 1 inch , cover in grass seed , sprinkle some compost on top , water , and wait for luscious new grass to grow .
When grass is 2 inch high, present the tray to your piggies, they will love you , when they have finished a tray , put back’ out to grow or in conservatory . Rotate trays (3) and you will have all year fresh grass for your little ones.
Love your back yard and all the forage you’ve got growing there! We don’t have a back yard but we bought a huge planter from Costco put it on my deck and I planted some organic hay seeds from amazon. They just devour the stuff it keeps growing. And will come up every year. One draw back is I’m in Canada north growing season is short. Thank you for your videos always informative❤️
Oh how lovely! Yes oat grass is such a treat for the piggies!
Love your video. Got me to go out and pick different weeds and gave them to my piggies along with carrots.
Yay!!!! There is food everywhere - you just have to look. 😉
Hey Saskia, great video 😊👍
Thank you!
I use to collect fresh grasses and clovers for my piggy and hamsters. I would forage various wild grasses native to my Minnesota area as well as three varieties of clover, red, white and yellow.
Fun huh?!!
Yes very much so!, was a morning ritual I do miss. To hear my piggy wheek with delight at the site and smell of fresh forage as well as the hamsters running out of their hiding holes to get the fresh greens, filled me with joy.
i really loved this. Mine know the sound of grass being pulled from about 30 metres away. Purslane they also call miners greens and is a fave of my piggies. I have a lot of thistle in my garden and have not tried it, I will now. I would not have fed them mallow without your earlier video.
Oh boy they are going to love that Thistle! Easily one our their faves. 🌻
It's a great educational video! It's fun to try different food for yourself too 😁😋
Yes it is!!
Yes, LOVE going out and picking dandelion leaves so. Much. DANDELION!!
I have wild violets and tons of orchard grass growing at my house, my pigs adore it!
Wow I didn’t know this . Thank you .... I enjoyed all your videos.
Thank You
Have you ever given your piggies miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)? It's found all over the west coast as well as being high in vitamin C. People in the gold rush ate it to prevent scurvy!
Wheat grass is great too. I've seen neighborhoods near barns that have wheat grass growing in their lawns.
Yes it is!!
They do love wheatgrass and it grows fast indoors BUT BEWARE. I fed it to my pigs for months and it was not good! I forget exactly what it was but I stopped all of it right away. It could have caused sludge in the urine which leads to bladder stones and that is something to watch for. As pigs get older, they can't handle exotic feedstuff as well as the young can. Strawberry Clover was another very bad one for sludge and stone formation. Learn from my mistakes, it'll save you heartache and money!
Thanks Saskia! Now I know that I can feed the clovers and try the mint that grow near by to my piggies 😁
Yes!!
The 'weed' you called 'Horseweed', is what I call 'Fluffytop'. My gang go CRAZY for it!!!! They love it!!!! I bring that home and my gang start climbing the sides of their pens and they are trying to eat it before I can even get it completely into their pens.
I live in Wisconsin, so all winter long I had to feed my piggies red lettuce from the grocery store...they would go berserk when they heard me come home...LOL. When the weather got nice we put them out in the hay field.. in .a bottomless cage....they loved it. Just make sure no one uses Round Up or anything unnatural. I think this lady knows best, variety is what they need too. You can always go out in the county and pick stuff from the ditch too.
A huge like for this video Saskia ❤ living in rural Cornwall UK I'm blessed to have a veritable larder on my doorstep, it's so interesting to see what grows elsewhere. I have an agreement with my pet free neighbours to pick dandelion and plantain from their lawns, plantain makes a great poltise for humans too. Once chewed apply to insect bites or stings a great natural anti inflammatory. My girls are huge forage fans and wheak whenever anyone comes through the front door in the hopes they have some. Mint however, they are terrified of!
Rural Cornwall, I am jealous!!! Funny about the mint right?
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue I am a lucky lady to call Cornwall home and am known in my village as the lady who picks weeds. A father and daughter walked past me and the little girl asked"daddy, why is that lady picking weeds?" Her father simply shushed her and walked away. I said to a friend that yelling after them "I have guinea pigs" would probably not convince him of my sanity 😂
@@debbiewynne8108 Lol - have had the same experience. I get funny looks when I pounce on a dandelion flower with glee :-).
I love your videos they are soo helpful...... 💜💜💜
Awesome video...we are learning so much
Mint sauce anyone yum you break up the mint add vinegar stir and pour all over your Sunday roast! Great thing to do Saskia ♥
I sometimes apologize to plants too when I have to pick them haha! This is great info& look forward to the summer when I can forage again!
Triskets like "MOM, let me sleep" 😂
I love this video! i have a big yard so im glad to know i can forage some treats for my piggy
I love your voice! Cool video. I’m trying to find one for Minnesota
I grow carrots for our piggies - they seem to really like the green stalks so I over seed container and feed them whilst.thinning out. They seem to like the carrots too :-). I also love it when they eat the raw veggie scraps one would have thrown away before the guineas arrived. Very pleasing. They really don't like mint though - run away from it.
When I had piggies we always used to give them grass in the morning for breakfast they would go crazy for it squeaking so loud it’s unbelievable
I'm so thankful to have found her! New piggy mom here and so much to learn!! It's winter here and wondering if I can feed them the mint I've grown outside? It's dead but I didn't cut it down so not sure if it's still good for them
We place my piggies outside on the grass for one sec and they love it so much
I have mint growing outside too, most of my girls love it ! My boys however, don't like it. And well Ginger is the exception on the girls, she runs away like it's poison lol
When I was a kid, the sound of picking grass was what made my guinea pigs squeak! I notice my piggies quite like the sticky weed.
Really interesting, especially because i've never heard of many of these! Luckily, we can grow different things through spring, summer and autumn. Palm kool is a favourite, a little bitter but tasty with potato. Herbs, lettuce and cauliflower are great too. Herbs and fresh grass we also feed to our rabbit.
Really great video, thanks for sharing 🌻🐹🌾
Oh, as a child we had rabbits. The male(Teapot) LOVED mint, always minty fresh breath, also celery breath was my favourite too
Cool video very informative I learned more things were safe than I realized
Love this video! Super educational! I would love to forage for my bun but I live in the city and it’s just not safe where I live. Maybe down the road when I own my own property I can control how I want the yard to be 😊
Thanks so much so helpful ❤️❤️❤️
Bless you Saskia , I live in Australia
Hi Saskia,🥰 my husband and I just finished watching your video. Thank you so very much, for sharing all you do. We follow your page and watch every video you post. Still we would love to talk to you in person, so many questions... 🤔🤔 it would be a very long post. Our year and a half old Piggy (Earnest T.) was acting out of sorts, we took him to a vet. I just don't feel he knows about Piggy's like you do. He got a clean bill of health, and gave us some antibiotics just in case. I'm unsure about giving it to him. Just so hard to explain in writing. Thank you again for all you do. Tracy and Jeff
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Convinced my neighbor to let a patch of piggy safe weeds grow in his yard bc my yard gets treated. The city gave us a fine apparently they didn't share in my excitement over a patch of weeds lol. Its been all good sense I put deco gravel around it like its a special flower bed
Very interesting and varied, i love your videos and suggestions🥕🥕🥥🥥🍅🍅🍅
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I need an Aussie version of this...
Saskia from Puerto Rico l gives you thanks l have learn a lot from all the videos in iTunes forgive me l don’t know how to write English much God bless you .
it was funny when you put the collerd back in and triscut just went mine! and pulled it away
I'm seriously impressed with how much mint you grow ... I struggle grow even a small plant pot of mint ... what's your secret?
It just grows like weed am not doing anything other than watering. It may be the type of Mint? Sadly I do not know what this one is. I started with a twig from a friend plant.
Mint is a weed, it might just not be doing well in a pot. They do really well in partial shade.
Maybe try another type of mint it should grow easy but do not grown pennyroyal mint as it's toxic
Mint grows so easily. I never thought to offer some... idk but I thought they would hate it. Ill give it a try.
Hi thank you for your videos they have helped me so much,I have one guenea pig my daughter got for Christmas she has angelman syndrome non verbal she loves her piggy she says a couple of words one of them is baby so that's what we named him I was wondering you said mint is ok what about beebalm it's in the mint family we can eat it even the flower just want to make sure plus I would like to add we might get another one because I didn't realize they needed a buddy until I started watching your videos now I feel bad
Yes Tracy that is fine to feed.
Hi Saskia, I absolutely love watching you work with these lil guys:) You are so gifted, in all that you do with them. I believe that you are bringing out their true beauty & personality. & also showing people what they can have with just a little gentle loving kindness.
I must mention, before I go... You probably already know this, but. Feeding rice can become dangerous, when the animal then drinks water. The rice swells & can burst. It's become illegal now in CA. to throw rice at weddings because of this... I feel very awkward mentioning this, as knowledgeable as you are... But I thought, just in case:) Thanx.
I gave mine parsnips once after hearing how good they were, my piggies wouldn't touch it. They are so picky!
Prachtig 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Deep fried dandelion is awesome!
The mint always takes over😅 we have to cut ours back every year
That one plant you picked looked like a corn plant.
I live in west michigan in the city. But my apartments are off the road by a creek. You would think that we live out in the country side with all the dear and small animals around. But we get a ton of wild black raspberries and I just cannot bring myself to eat them. I am afraid bugs/mites may be on them or birds may have pooped on them. The animals eat the ones on the outside but they can't get in where most if them are because of the thorns. So they just bloom and die every year.
By the way your videos are awesome
Thank you!!!
Saskia. Thank you for this. I a.m. enjoying researching everything for my first piggy. You, Scott and skinny pig 1 have really opened my eyes about issues with care, feeding, energy levels, and even the sizes of herds and the c&c layouts. I would like your thoughts on using colloidal silver. I use it on my cat's. Also, I would to make an observation pertaining to your spinach. Very few things do well growing in the acid soil next to a pine tree and yet look sick in normal soil-- my conclusion would be that your spinach plant needs acid soil to grow Just like blueberry bushes. Please let me know if you read this, I have an idea for free helpers/ gardeners you may not have thought to check into.
Oh wow that is very interesting. It would explain why I cannot get the spinach to grow that well! Colloidal Silver - yes I am all for it! Would love to hear your idea.
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue Thank you for getting back with me, I a.m. hoping that this isn't something you have checked.
1) I learned about plants in the Master Gardener program. It is offered thru the county extension service. They beautify street intersections, roads, etc. They have to maintain the certification by working so many VOLUNTEER hours yearly. Because yours is a nonprofit, you might be able to get free landscape or Guinea garden area as well as them maintaining it. They also host plant sales and could possibly have one on your property. You would have more foot traffic and I a.m. sure the write up in paper would bring free publicity. I am sure there are more ideas that you might see that I don't.
2) I know several public/private high schools that require the kids to complete volunteer civic duty to pass to the next year. My daughter spent 1 Saturday per month helping fill boxes to be picked up by needy families. Some kids volunteered at stables, local dog and cat rescues - the purpose is to help the teens to feel as part of the community and learn empathy. I also have seen catholic kids join together as groups to help in community. The leader brings them in and stays with them to keep them on point. I remember a time when my daughter was barely a teen and she joined in to help weatherize homes for senior citizens. I know of atleast 2 large Baptist churches that also help in our community. It absolutely never hurts to ask or send letters of Introduction to ask if they such programs. Check with your city, find out how to be included in free events like earth day celebrations. Our local girl scouts have sign ups, vendors have tables at them. Why couldn't you have a furry friend table to introduce the rescue to people that might not have known otherwise. Tip jars at the events don't hurt, either.
@@LosAngelesGuineaPigRescue my volunteer hours were usually accomplished by driving the visitors at the botanical gardens on a golf cart, some people worked on model trains or lighted Christmas decorations (galaxy of lights). One lady worked with a daycare to decorate pots and grow plants for holiday presents. They approved most everything for MG hours but it really is up to the local county extension service or person running it. Growing up, I always loved participating in the 4H. Does 4H consider showing prize piggies as a contest? My friend in Ohio runs a skunk rescue and they hold skunk fest yearly. Maybe you could hold a piggie pageant? I hope these are fresh ideas to you.
Hi Saskia. I don't know if we have plants of the same names here in Australia. One thing I was wondering, we have alot of Nut Grass in our lawn...is that safe for them to eat? Also dandelions. Any info you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Heather