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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: patmci on March 02, 2011, 02:22:02 pm

Title: Pigs and cheese
Post by: patmci on March 02, 2011, 02:22:02 pm

Hi Guys,
            Just wondering if it is ok to give pigs gone off cheese.

Regards Patrick

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: supplies for smallholders on March 02, 2011, 02:42:03 pm

Hi,

Straight from a dairy should be OK - but from your fridge or kitchen it is illegal....

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: little blue on March 02, 2011, 08:39:18 pm

SfS has it in a nutshell!
just wanted to say .... I wouldnt recommend feeding your livestock anything that you wouldnt eat yourself - how do you know its not going to make them ill?

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: supplies for smallholders on March 03, 2011, 10:44:52 am

Hi Little Blue,

Not coming to your place for dinner then.....

A nice appetiser of Sow and Weaner nuts, maincourse of hey, Desert of rolled barley.....

 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: OhLaLa on March 03, 2011, 10:50:50 am

Quote from: supplies for smallholders on March 03, 2011, 10:44:52 am

Hi Little Blue,

Not coming to your place for dinner then.....

A nice appetiser of Sow and Weaner nuts, maincourse of hey, Desert of rolled barley.....

 ;D ;D ;D

 :D :D

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: Blonde on March 03, 2011, 02:31:55 pm

 Although pigs are fed whey from the dairy,  How do you know they dont feed them cheese that has failed.  I guess they might like it....never really given my girls anything else but grain.   

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: Hilarysmum on March 03, 2011, 02:36:48 pm

Mine eat mildly mouldy cheddar and other hard cheeses, I worry about soft cheese because of the illness which name I forget but begins with L.

Help someone ....

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: princesspiggy on March 03, 2011, 02:46:36 pm

listeria.
aborginies eat mouldy eggs dont they? that doesnt kill them. 

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: Blonde on March 03, 2011, 02:49:57 pm

People eat blue vein cheeses and that does not make them sick either.  Peole also eat fungus and that is generally not a problem unles you eat a poisonous one.  Pigs sniff out truffles and they're a fungus...and i guess they have eaten them from time to time, but I think they probably have a muzzle on them to stop them from being consumed

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: little blue on March 03, 2011, 10:20:19 pm

SfS, lots of nutrition in sow rolls!
today, I have been mostly eating.....   ;)   ::D

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: shetlandpaul on March 04, 2011, 08:55:56 am

think whats in a wild pigs diet. a bit of old cheese won't hurt them. however its not allowed by eu rules so don't bother.

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: ambriel on March 04, 2011, 06:17:30 pm

I suppose the perceived problem is if the cheese, whilst in the fridge, has come into contact with meat.

Of course, if everyone was following good practise they'll be storing their uncooked meats beneath their cooked meats, and cheese separate to both...

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: shetlandpaul on March 04, 2011, 08:09:28 pm

what about tb if its french it may not be heat treated. who know never a problem in our house cheese hardly gets through the door before its gone.

Title: Re: Pigs and cheese
Post by: Hilarysmum on March 05, 2011, 03:15:28 pm

Listeria thanks.  Couldnt remember name.