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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Eastling on July 14, 2011, 02:23:42 pm

Title: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Eastling on July 14, 2011, 02:23:42 pm
Do I need to cook beetroot and the leaves before feeding?
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Berkshire Boy on July 14, 2011, 02:27:11 pm
No. Give it to them straight out of the ground mine love it. They do look like vampires after eating it though :D
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: nelson on July 14, 2011, 06:13:37 pm
Would love a picture of that Berkshire Boy  :) :) :D
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Sylvia on July 14, 2011, 08:09:23 pm
Mine prefer theirs cooked.
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Eastling on July 15, 2011, 09:16:54 am
Thanks will try raw and try for a pic of a piggy vampire! ;)
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Tiva Diva on July 15, 2011, 09:59:30 am
Their poo and urine will be coloured too!
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Fowgill Farm on July 15, 2011, 10:04:15 am
Knock it back before sending to abbattoir too or meat inspector will have a fit when they inspect carcasses!!! Pink insides!!
Mandy  :pig:
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Eastling on July 15, 2011, 01:39:20 pm
They enjoyed the beetroot and now sleeping with red mouths and snouts  :D

Fowgill Farm they are not going anywhere  :D
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Beewyched on July 15, 2011, 10:04:29 pm
Quote from: Sylvia on July 14, 2011, 08:09:23 pm
Mine prefer theirs cooked.

On a gas-ring in your feed room, remember ;)
Title: Re: Feeding beetroot
Post by: Sylvia on July 16, 2011, 11:19:38 am
Quote from: Beewyched  ;Dlink=topic=16758.msg160088#msg160088 date=1310763869
Quote from: Sylvia on July 14, 2011, 08:09:23 pm
Mine prefer theirs cooked.

On a gas-ring in your feed room, remember ;

Where else ;D