MILLIONS OF GUINEA PIG EATING PERUVIANS….

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an experiment in raising guinea pigs for food begins in the remote and beautiful mountains of Northern California.  Caressed by the sun, nurtured by the rain and lulled by the gentle song of the turkey, they grow fat and tasty in the………..

I became interested in Guinea Pigs as a possible source of meat a year or two ago. For anyone who doesn’t already know, they are a popular source of meat in parts of South America. My initial impression was that they are much like rabbits, but maybe more able to live on the stream of unused leaves, vegetable peelings and just general vegetable surplus that flows from the garden than rabbits are. Also, unlike rabbits, they aren’t diggers and they don’t climb out of things over a foot high. My breeding pair have so far lived largely in cardboard boxes that they could clearly get out of, but they really don’t even want to. Give them some food and some place to hide and they’re not going anywhere!  I’m totally unclear on the feed to growth ratio of guinea pigs as compared to rabbits, but I’m hopeful, and if most of the food is scraps, it may not matter that much. For these reasons they seem like a fairly ideal small livestock for certain situations, especially urban and suburban environments. They could probably mow the lawn.