Camomile tea...?!

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- 01/23/2015 at 5:17 AM
  lucy :)
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  I often spend time just chilling out in my bunny room – I will sit on the floor and read while they run around and play.
  
  Anyway, I was in there the other day with a cup of camomile tea and the buns were very interested in it! They wanted to taste it but it was too hot for them.
  
  I know they can eat camomile so I don’t suppose it would do them any harm (I checked and the ingredients are 100% camomile, no nasties in there) – but I’m surprised at how interested they were to be honest! I think if it had been cool they would have definitely tried it.
  
  Would it be ok to give them a little bit of cooled camomile tea? I want to let them try as many things as possible but I don’t want to give them anything that would be bad for them. Would it be ok for their digestive system to have something like this? I did google but I got a mixed response, so I was wondering if anyone else here had had experience with this?
- 01/23/2015 at 5:22 AM
  Roberta
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  I think it would be fine in small amounts. I was at a friends place recently and her two guinea pigs came out for a visit and were up on the table. I had peppermint tea. Well, it appears GP’s like peppermint. After several attempts one of them got the teabag and it was quite the battle retrieving it. After that I put a little of the cold remaining tea on the table for them and they loved it. It was a warm day and they had plenty of greens and water and even some water melon but the peppermint tea was what they really wanted.
- 01/23/2015 at 5:26 AM
  lucy :)
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  I wonder if they would like peppermint tea too! I do feed them fresh mint leaves sometimes as a treat and they LOVE it.
  
  I’m thinking if they like it it could be a good way to get fluids into them if they are poorly. (Having said that my buns are both great drinkers).
  
  I think I will try them with a little cooled tea in a dish as an experiment. I think it’s nice to share with them (I often take a bowl of veggies in and eat some for myself and feed some to them haha) so I would like to be able to share my tea too!
- 01/23/2015 at 5:26 AM
  lucy :)
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  Double post, sorry!
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