Seeds from peppers

[Onihrapiggy]

My piggies love red peppers, but I am always so careful to pick out all of the little white seeds because I wasn't sure if they would harm them or not. Are the seeds safe for them??

[EllieMom]

I think, in general, seeds are something you should avoid. I think it depends on the size and chewability, somewhat, too. I do remove all the seeds from peppers, watermelon, and papaya. But I'm less vigilant about tomatoes and cucumbers because the seeds in those seem less seedy (if that makes sense).

[Bethie]

I think we've had this discussion somewhere else. I especially feed pepper seeds to my boys. Toby loves them with a capital 'L!' He always scarfs the seeds first. I avoid all other seeds, though; and they don't like tomatoes.

[Onihrapiggy]

Oh most likely there has been a previous discussion on this...so many threads now, very hard to nail down specific issues.

[Bethie]

Since most threads end up talking about food, that's not hard to believe. I remember some people said they wash the peppers and give them to the piggies whole.

[Mum]

I sometimes take the mini peppers, wash them, and toss them in whole. Sometimes I squish them apart first.

With larger peppers I do take out most of the seeds, but I don't think it's necessary.

[Lynx]

I always used to take the pepper seeds out. No idea if my pigs would have liked them or not. The did love tomatoes.

[vanillapooh1979]

Mine eat the seeds that do stay on the pepper. But I try to cut out the seed cluster.

[starfishsaving]

I have found that just running the pepper under water and rubbing the little seed core thingy with my fingers very quickly removes all the seeds, without cutting. I do this just to be safe but I cut up the white core for them.