The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: The Relic on November 25, 2009, 06:34:58 pm
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I have access to loads of bananas which i have been feeding the pigs with their meal. i have not reduced their daily amount just giving them 3-5 bananas each with their meal everyday. I was just wondering can too many bananas have any side effects (ie make them sick)
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I understand that bananas are about the only fruit on earth that can sustain life i.e. it has all the nutrients necessary to live off. I shouldn't imagine there's any problem as long as you don't overdo it. Mine 4 Tammies eat loads of bananas with zero ill effect.
Regards,
Morgan
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ours would eat bananas all day long, however i would reduce the feed a little if i gave them a lot :pig:
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cheers guys.
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Anytime! Mine tucked into a breakfast of passion fruit, grapes, bananas, apples, blackberries and pears the other morning with a little grain. I remarked to my wife that they were better fed than we were!
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I would think they will be fine, although Bananas contain oil, which may turn to fat, so if you are going slaughtering for meat soon, I would check with Mr. Pig - one of our users who has not been on for a while - he will know if it could be detrimental to the
fat and therefore less meat content etc.
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Nice 1 snoopy but they are for breeding.
i'll be tucking into their offspring though.
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We have been feeding Bananas for years now but I will say you must lower the hard feed a little or you will end up with a lot of fat. We have got it just right but we have done it for some time and we do feed them lots of other veg as well.