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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: agrifabs on January 31, 2010, 11:46:50 pm

Title: pigs and bluebells
Post by: agrifabs on January 31, 2010, 11:46:50 pm

hi, im new on here, i have 10 acres, i am thinkong of getting myself 2 GOS sows,  about 3 acres of my land has bluebells, are pigs ok with them or are the blue bells bad for them?

im in south wales, anyone else on here from south wales?


hope you can help me,

kind regards

chris :pig:

Title: Re: pigs and bluebells
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 01, 2010, 07:31:13 am

They will dig up the bluebells but not eat them.  We have a fabulous crop of daffodils on our Island in the pond, due to Hilary getting out there and rooting out the bulbs.  Dont know whether it will work the same with bluebells.