Is oatmeal safe for guinea pigs?

Yup! It's just a grain -oats and that grain can be found in many piggie pellets. I used to give my piggies a handful of uncooked oats every few weeks as a treat. (Other than vegetables & thier pellets, any other people's food needs to be given in moderation). read more

Yup! It's just a grain -oats and that grain can be found in many piggie pellets. I used to give my piggies a handful of uncooked oats every few weeks as a treat. read more

This means that they can eat a little dry oatmeal, but don’t feed them too much as it contains too much acidic content and phosphorus for them to handle. Too much oatmeal may give them stomach problems. For more foods that guinea pigs can and can’t eat, check out our guinea pig food list. read more

Best Answer: Some good treats to offer your guinea pig are (not necessarily high in vitamin C): Coarse cut oatmeal (from health food store), bananas, apples (no seeds because they contain arsenic), carrots (with or without tops), papaya, mango, kiwi fruit, pineapple, and 1/2 an orange with most of the pulp scooped out (appetizing way of offering oranges to guinea pigs). read more