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ambriel

  • Joined Jan 2011
  • Kinlochbervie, NW Sutherland, Scotland
  • Mad, bad, and dangerous to know!
    • Harbour Cottage
Pigs and Bracken - How Dangerous?
« on: September 20, 2011, 11:24:11 am »

I'm been approached with a proposition which would see me putting half a dozen or more Tamworths onto several acres of rough grazing which has quite a lot of bracken on it. They'd probably be there from the end of January until late summer, and then going off to market or the abattoir.

I understand bracken is poisonous to many animals, pigs notwithstanding, but just how much of a problem for them is it?

Googling on the subject reveals conflicting answers: Mature bracken interferes with the pig's ability to take up vitamin B but suggests that young bracken is fine.

Can anyone give me some first hand advice please?

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

 

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