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Author Topic: can pigs safely eat beets?  (Read 3540 times)

yankieGirl

  • Joined Jan 2011
  • Pennsylvania, USA
can pigs safely eat beets?
« on: November 25, 2011, 11:41:58 am »
my dad pulled 3 large garbage bags full of beets.  They planted them with the intent to can but never got to them.  Now they are huge.

Any reason I can't feed them at will to my 2 pigs?

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: can pigs safely eat beets?
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2011, 12:06:28 pm »
dont let them get to much at one time :farmer:

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: can pigs safely eat beets?
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2011, 01:45:28 pm »
My pigs will eat them if they're hard up for grub but the sheep love them.

yankieGirl

  • Joined Jan 2011
  • Pennsylvania, USA
Re: can pigs safely eat beets?
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2011, 03:12:03 pm »
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dont let them get to much at one time

Why?

robert waddell

  • Guest
Re: can pigs safely eat beets?
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2011, 03:31:00 pm »
it will go through them ;D :farmer:

Blonde

  • Joined Mar 2011
Re: can pigs safely eat beets?
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2011, 09:36:00 am »
too late I gave them a tractor bucket full out of the garden......spares after bottling :wave:

 

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