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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: harry on October 02, 2011, 07:42:00 pm

Title: saving fruit
Post by: harry on October 02, 2011, 07:42:00 pm: hi....got access to a load of pears, and apples..enough for 6-8 weeks feed...anyone now how to store the pears for a few weeks in bulk, (ime not wrapping each one in paper).
Title: Re: saving fruit
Post by: Eve on October 02, 2011, 08:00:45 pm: Just put them in single layers in crates, temperature's going to come down on Tuesday anyway so they should keep for a while.
Title: Re: saving fruit
Post by: ambriel on October 02, 2011, 10:42:14 pm: I think it's important to keep them out of the sunlight, too. Maybe that's just apples though?
Title: Re: saving fruit
Post by: pikilily on October 03, 2011, 08:16:46 am: If they are for feeding to piggies - why not shove them through a chopper processor and bag the mush and freeze it! then it will keep for months rather than weeks!

If its for humans then same principle but peeled and cored.

Emma T
Title: Re: saving fruit
Post by: pikilily on October 03, 2011, 08:18:36 am: also...what about burying them in a bit hole/pit....would that not have been one way the prehistorics would have done this
ET x
Title: Re: saving fruit
Post by: Fowgill Farm on October 03, 2011, 09:24:36 am: Don't store apples & pears in same crates, pears generally go off quicker than apples so i would use up the pears first, as soon as you spot an fruit starting to spoil take it out as it will spread to other fruit. Generally find that paler coloured apples store less well than bright green (granny smith type).
HTH
Mandy :pig:
Title: Re: saving fruit
Post by: Blonde on October 10, 2011, 02:14:54 am: Quote from: harry on October 02, 2011, 07:42:00 pm
hi....got access to a load of pears, and apples..enough for 6-8 weeks feed...anyone now how to store the pears for a few weeks in bulk, (ime not wrapping each one in paper).
As with the apples, I would let them ferment and feed the fermented fruit to the pigs......let the squeal for more each day....but dont just give them this give them their ordinary feed as well......YUMMO!!! :farmer: