The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Azzdodd on November 10, 2014, 05:01:22 pm
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I'm keen to offer my sows some grazing as such there pens are grazed down to nothing now an I'm keen to get them eating some silage I've tried hay & haylage no interest an ended up going to the sheep? Anyone feed there pigs silage? It will be as part of there usual diet
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I wouldn't bother. Even if they eat it they won't get much in the way of nutrition out of it.
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I agree. Hay and silage are fine for ruminants. Pigs would probably eat it if they were desperate but they never should be.
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The only pigs that will get worthwhile energy from hay/haylage are kune kunes ! And boy do they love it !
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My pigs love to munch on hay :thumbsup: I chuck a wad in every couple of days
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How about feeding roots instead?
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The only pigs that will get worthwhile energy from hay/haylage are kune kunes ! And boy do they love it !
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My Kunes turn their noses up at hay, haylage or silage. They will, though eat their barley straw bedding also fodder beet, apples, carrots, squash as well as sow rolls. Also ( they are definitely not in the food chain) cake, biscuits and all things nice.
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My OSB loves to play with her straw and find any grain hidden away in it.
In the long wet winters, she will eat a little hay - less than a flap of a small bale each day, but she does seem to be grateful for it.
She isn't done finding and eating all the dock roots in her paddock yet ;)
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Also ( they are definitely not in the food chain) cake, biscuits and all things nice.
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Please remember feeding pigs ANYTHING that has been in a kitchen, whether domestic or commercial, is banned. It's how the F&M outbreak of 2001 started, after all ...