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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Baswold on July 13, 2012, 05:28:28 pm

Title: Fodder potatoes
Post by: Baswold on July 13, 2012, 05:28:28 pm

Can you let me know if its ok to feed fodder potatoes uncooked and if so is there a limit to how many
Thanks

Title: Re: Fodder potatoes
Post by: henchard on July 13, 2012, 06:44:54 pm

Try this for info

http://www.britishpigs.org.uk/Newcastle_handbook_of_raw_materials.pdf (http://www.britishpigs.org.uk/Newcastle_handbook_of_raw_materials.pdf)

It's a useful document (pdf) (A Handbook of Raw Materials  and Recommendations for Feeding Practice)

See page 41

Title: Re: Fodder potatoes
Post by: hughesy on July 13, 2012, 09:13:39 pm

Search the forum this has been discussed many times. The concensus is that cooked are better than raw.

Title: Re: Fodder potatoes
Post by: Eve on July 13, 2012, 09:22:04 pm

Hilarysmum mentioned some time ago that a bucket of raw potatoes can kill a pig - it's not likely to happen but it can, can't remember why exactly.
Anybody who knows what happened to HM, btw? She posted so often but we haven't heard from her for a year or two now, hope she didn't have to give up keeping pigs or move from France. Her posts were hilarious, we often asked her to write her memoirs  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Fodder potatoes
Post by: robert waddell on July 13, 2012, 09:51:42 pm

we used to to dump 4 tons of potatoes in the paddocks at the one time never lost a pig       why get potatoes and then spend money cooking them  pointless    also potatoes are good for maintenance diets only not for fatting or grower pigs that need the correct level of protein :farmer:

Title: Re: Fodder potatoes
Post by: SallyintNorth on July 14, 2012, 12:30:54 am

Raw potato interferes with protein absorption.

If you are buying protein - soya, barley, pig nuts - for your pigs, then feeding raw potatoes means you have to feed more of the expensive protein in order to give the pigs the same nutritional input.  Seems a bizarre choice to me.