# Herbs
Author: Grodan

What herbs do you give your mice?

The Mouse Club in Poland has a herbshop as a sponsor... When I was in Poland summer 07 I got some herbs from them. My mice liked the herbs and it smelled very good in the cages, but I don´t know what it was. Labels were in Polish...

## Comment 1
Author: Yosha

Mine get dried parsly and plantain regularly. I bought this at a fair (it was meant for guinea pigs). I also give them fresh parsley, chives, and basil. I don't remember if they ate sage and thyme, I only tried this once. Everything only in very small amounts because I don't know if it can upset their tummies. Sometimes they get special hay, which contains echinacea.

It is a pity you don't know which herbs you got from Poland. Do you remember the colour and did it contain flowers?

## Comment 2
Author: Pehpsii

Dried parsly, dried nettles and basil, chives, thyme and oregano (fresh). If they seem sniffly they get mynthe

## Comment 3
Author: Grodan

#1 I hope Floo (Dynamimaus) could come online and tell us about the Herbs.

It didn´t contain flowers. Color brownish, grey, green, beige, hay-kind-of-color ![Skrattande](../tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif)

## Comment 4
Author: Vattnadal

But dried flowers probably loose their colour, some of it at least.

## Comment 5
Author: lothus1

I found a couple of websites with many different herbs, but what can I give my precious little mice? I hope someone can answer.

[http://www.gogrow.co.uk/products/kitchen-herb-seed-collection.php?gclid=CKKQ9\_OTmZICFQGm1AodzRyVXg](http://www.gogrow.co.uk/products/kitchen-herb-seed-collection.php?gclid=CKKQ9_OTmZICFQGm1AodzRyVXg)

[http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/Herb/--1603------------------------.html](http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/Herb/--1603------------------------.html)

Here´s a site where you can learn how to preserve your herbs:

[http://gardening.about.com/od/vegetablepatch/a/DryingHerbs.htm](http://gardening.about.com/od/vegetablepatch/a/DryingHerbs.htm)