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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: RonMinch on September 14, 2011, 10:48:33 am

Title: Potatoes
Post by: RonMinch on September 14, 2011, 10:48:33 am

Hi, Can green potatoes be used, prepared in some way to supplement weaners diet or should they be thrown? Thanks

Title: Re: Potatoes
Post by: violet on September 14, 2011, 10:52:43 am

No. Sorry to be short, but once green potatoes are poisonous. I keep mine for seed the following year, if there's been no scab or disease problems.
Hope that is of some help

Title: Re: Potatoes
Post by: Fowgill Farm on September 14, 2011, 11:10:46 am

DO NOT FEED GREEN POTATOES THEY ARE POISONOUS AND MAKE YOUR PIGS VERY ILL.
Mandy  :pig:

Title: Re: Potatoes
Post by: RonMinch on September 14, 2011, 12:15:41 pm

Thanks for the comments, I thought not, that will teach me to put then away in the dark.

Title: Re: Potatoes
Post by: robert waddell on September 14, 2011, 02:50:15 pm

potatoes that are exposed to daylight turn green potatoes that are stored in the dark should be well just potatoes :farmer: