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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Porterlauren on November 27, 2015, 11:21:09 pm

Title: Pigs in pine / fir wood?
Post by: Porterlauren on November 27, 2015, 11:21:09 pm

Got a new spot for the pigs. Are pines/ firs in any way toxic to them?

Title: Re: Pigs in pine / fir wood?
Post by: Porterlauren on November 28, 2015, 07:02:52 pm

No one on here EVER ran pigs on such ground then?

Title: Re: Pigs in pine / fir wood?
Post by: Rupert the bear on November 28, 2015, 09:25:40 pm

When I had pigs part of their paddock included woodland mainly sitka / spruce and some mixed broadleaf , never came to any harm , they dug around some of the roots , but that's what they do ,during the hot (ish) summers day (we had once here in Aberdeenshire   :-J ) they would night out under the trees and would have to be called for feed time, kept them occupied.

Title: Re: Pigs in pine / fir wood?
Post by: landroverroy on November 28, 2015, 11:00:50 pm

My sheep and donkeys love the clippings from conifers, and old Christmas trees are eaten with relish. So I can't see that they would be harmful to pigs.
 

Title: Re: Pigs in pine / fir wood?
Post by: shotblastuk on November 29, 2015, 08:50:52 am

My old spots live in a christmas tree plantation and have never had a problem and ignore the trees.

Title: Re: Pigs in pine / fir wood?
Post by: Porterlauren on November 29, 2015, 06:24:02 pm

Thankyou very much for the replies. I am moving jobs and house and the pigs, sheep etc are coming with me. They will be going into a few acres of pines.