The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Other => Topic started by: little blue on August 06, 2009, 02:23:50 pm
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Hi all.
Another slightly mad question...
Can I use the finished stems and leaves of the broad beans as livestock food?!
For chickens,pigs, goats. Or do they need to be cooked first (the veg, not the animals!)
My mum always says theres an enzyme in raw beans thats toxic. Will a quick boil outside do? (to keep to DEFRA rules)
Seems a waste just to compost when they are still beautifully green
Same question applies to many other veg-sweetcorn, onions,
And yes, I know not to give them rhubbarb, tomatoes, potatoes before anyone says! :goat:
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You can feed broad beans, but they probably won't eat them.
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Our goats LOVE broad bean greenage, especially the pods after the beans are taken out. They also eat all the mange-tout and pea greenage. In the next week or two we'll be pulling up the french bean greenage after the last harvest and they love that too! :goat: The geese tend to get in there and finish off anything the goats leave too!
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My goats will eat most greens, but not beans, nor will the llama or ponies. Don't like onions either!!
At a show I saw a lady feeding her goats pea straw - helps the hay ration out. I would like to get some, but no one round here ever has any to sell.
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I was wondering the same thing as the stems look great and I thought maybe the piggies would like them or the goats, worried now as I have been feeding my goats and pigs tomatoes (the ones with slight blight) - they have been having just a few a day in with all their other veg - please can u tell me whether that is okay or not? What about the tomato stems as well?
thanks
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tomatoes yes, but NOT any leaves or stems.
I've been feeding the broad beans a few at a time, the pigs love it but goats n chooks not so keen