hello Kate,
do you feed the leaves to your pigs ? as I said before I read that the leaves weren't good for them . I looked after pigs on a farm years ago ,but only fed them pig nuts , as that was what the farmer used. It would be handy to know how well your pigs do on them, as I want to grow as much of my own feed for my pigs (when I get them) as possible. I will have plenty of comfrey (Hopefully about 500 plants or so) along with small amounts of grain ie wheat, barley, oats and rye .I can grow more or less as many mangels as I need really ,1-100 tons if need be . It is just very hard to work out exactly what amounts I will need , as all the books just say feed X amount of pig feed per lb of pig and so on . I will only be getting 2 weaners at first , to get the hang of things , and will feed them what they were getting where they were born ,till I can ease them onto the food I can grow them . My main aim is free meat from free food off my land , well more or less anyway. The pigs will be in big paddocks by the way, so grass will be available too. The theory sounds ok to me ::)D but am I being way to ambitious ? Growing the feed isn't a problem , I don't mind the work .....I would be interested as to what your thoughts would be .
Cheers
Russ