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[Amberjem]

Saw those episodes.... and the one with the iguana.... LOL. I am a fan of both Zimmern and Bourdain... Guinea pigs are interesting critters and I used to raise them.... not by choice but at one point i had more than sixty.... You think Chicken math is a hoot.... Guinea pig math is exponential... before you figure out how to sex em....

deb

I got one ginuea pig .....and suddenly there were a million

 

[Amberjem]

Have never had the inclination to eat guinea pigs or squirrels but, I would imagine it would take few to feed a family for dinner.

bout five or six for a three family meal...unless your real hungery peeps lol and heyyyyya diva

 

[ronott1]

Don't consume rabbit, either. Just the way I roll, I guess.

Did you see the -- uh-oh, was it Andrew Zimmer or Anthony Bourdain -- where they ate guinea pig? Tasty little suckers, apparently. I think it was Bizarre Foods.

The worst episode I ever saw was Anthony Bourdain and the from-scratch iguana tacos. (I happened to have a pet iguana at the time and was basically incapacitated with the flu and couldn't move off the sofa). From dispatching the poor lizard on.... At least there was some vindication when Anthony proclaimed 'This is the vilest thing I have EVER eaten." If I hadn't have been so empty I would've thrown up.

Guinea pig is a rodent too.

It likely tastes a lot like squirrel. We may all be eating stuff like that one day. It is a very easy to raise food source for much of the World.

I think I will stick with chickens.

 

[Peep_Show]

I think I will stick with chickens.

X2 to the nth squared!

 

[perchie.girl]

I love it when they're born and just off running.... all bulky head and pencil body until they fill out a bit. Yeah, my rodent of choice...But NOT for eating.

I also loved how momma would have only two spigots and five babies to nurse... they would litterally stand in line.... I kept them like a herd of sheep. they cant jump out of an enclosure thats a foot tall. So I lined my chainlink yard with chicken wire split down the middle. they only eat grasses so I would watch my shrubs with tall grass sticking up out of them. I could tell a piggie was in there because the grass would wiggle wiigggle then shrink in height at a rapid rate.

I would scatter about four inch diameter of PVC chunks about four feet long.... if they got spooked they would pile in.... youd see a guinea pig butt coming from one end and a butt from the other end.... and you couldnt pick it up because it would be fulll of guinea pigs.

They are considered herd animals because of the amount of toes they have and their being born with their eyes open and capable to run with momma within a few hours. That and they can eat solid food right away. I fed mine Piggie pellets with vitamine C as well as a flake of leafy Alfalfa.

I had the males and females separated into paddocks.... at the time I had about ten of each. One morning I was in a hurry to go to work. So I threw a flake in each pen... When I came back that night I counted noses and one of the boys was missin.... I found him sprawled out on his side smoking the proverbial cigarette... in the female pen. Fortunately only about half were receptive.... Thats how my herd got to be sixty... I was overwhelmed.

I found a fellow who had married a woman from Peru... and gave them all to him.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

heard the lil piggys are plumper then squirrel.. I dunno ..never had em.............I wouldnt say no to trying it though

 

[perchie.girl]

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They are distant to regular rodents.... on thier own tree branch. Along with the largest in the world Capyberra. Cavvy=guinea pig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caviidae

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

If I've had one as a pet I'm less inclined to eat it.

However, a flock (as in meat birds) are rather impersonal.

Capyberras are cute! The Godzilla of the guinea pig world.

 

[ronott1]

They are distant to regular rodents.... on thier own tree branch. Along with the largest in the world Capyberra. Cavvy=guinea pig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caviidae

deb

The guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also called the cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia. Despite their common name, these animals are not in the pig family, nor are they from Guinea. They originated in the Andes, and earlier studies based on biochemistry and hybridization suggested they are domesticated descendants of a closely related species of cavy such as Cavia aperea, C. fulgida, or C. tschudii and, therefore, do not exist naturally in the wild.[1][2] Recent studies applying molecular markers,[3][4] in addition to studying the skull and skeletal morphology of current and mummified animals,[5] revealed that the ancestor is most likely Cavia tschudii.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Kewel.... The reason they are Called Guinea Pigs is through the Dutch traders. they were so cute the brought them home and sold them as pets for a Guinea... and they do have a grunting squeek... like a pig.

But they do have different properties from other rodents. They cannot manufacture vitimine C in their digestive system... Just like US. they have to eat C in their veggies in order to get the right amount. Probably their similarities to our physiology is why they were used for experiments on drugs.

deb