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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: otto on August 04, 2012, 04:13:39 pm

Title: Unusual Appetite
Post by: otto on August 04, 2012, 04:13:39 pm
Hi all,
Has anyone exerienced this before? I am on my 4th lot of GOS Weaners, we keep 5 at a time. Good nature and great meat. This most recent batch, who are around 6 weeks from slaughter, are so unbelievably fussy. They will not eat any kitchen scraps or even top notch forage from the veg patch...not even beetroot which previous lots would kill for! All they eat is the pig pellets. Never seen anything like it...I hope this does not have a negative impact on the meat. I always like to believe that they great flavour is, in some part, due to the wonderful a varied veggie diet the boys have had in the past..... ???
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: robert waddell on August 04, 2012, 04:33:40 pm
pigs can be funny if you cut the pellets down they will eat  anything :farmer:
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: Sylvia on August 04, 2012, 05:03:42 pm
Agreed! Give them the waste first then, when eaten, the pellets.
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: otto on August 05, 2012, 07:34:19 am
Will do........ :)
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: little blue on August 05, 2012, 11:10:37 am
Quote from: otto on August 04, 2012, 04:13:39 pm
They will not eat any kitchen scraps

perhaps they are DEFRA Moles?!  ;)
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: princesspiggy on August 05, 2012, 03:13:02 pm
did u buy them in? id guess they havent bin free range and never got the chance to root about and r only used to pellets.
we had the opposite problem of bought in pigs that wudnt eat pellets cos they were only used to tatties and veg etc. took a fair few hungry days before they would eat a normal amount.
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: Berkshire Boy on August 05, 2012, 03:47:14 pm
You shouldn't be giving them kitchen scraps anyway.  :o
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: otto on August 15, 2012, 09:48:16 pm
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You shouldn't be giving them kitchen scraps anyway. 

BB only referring to food prep scraps not cooked food!
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Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: YorkshireLass on August 15, 2012, 09:50:24 pm
Still illegal :p Unless you peel your spuds outside and therefore the peelings never cross the threshold  :innocent:
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: Eve on August 15, 2012, 11:02:06 pm
We've had fussy ones, they sometimes take some time getting used to certain foods. If they were getting scraps from a young age they tend to eat most things when they arrive at our place.
 
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: Fowgill Farm on August 16, 2012, 09:34:20 am
You shouldn't be giving them kitchen scraps anyway. 

BB only referring to food prep scraps not cooked food!

If your food prep scraps are prepared in your kitchen you can't give them to your pigs, any food that passes thro a domestic or catering kichen cannot be fed to fed to pigs> It is Illegal but if you prepare the veg outside stright from your garden and it never goes in your kitchen it can be fed to them.
HTh
mandy :pig:
Title: Re: Unusual Appetite
Post by: otto on August 16, 2012, 09:24:03 pm
 :innocent: :innocent: I hadn't appreciated that! Better do the rough trimming in the veg garden from now on!