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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: showbiz on July 20, 2010, 09:03:28 am
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hi everybody new member here jus wondering if i can feed my 9week old saddlebacks whole uncooked fruit and veg such as potatoes and apples as i grow these myself already
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Potatoes should be cooked as pigs are as you know very greedy things and will scoff any thing in the trough and out come to that They have been known to choke on potato The old way was boil them in a copper down the garden and at feeding times get a scoop of them and the water they were boiled in and mash them then mix in their barley meal put it in the trough and add a pail of water Prorate for their size of course a 10 week old doesn't need as much as one thats ready to kill next week :D :farmer:
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Fruit would be fine, personally I dont feed raw potatoes, and mine for the most part would not eat them if I did. Cooked potatoes are easier to digest, the pigs are able to get more goodness out of them than if they are raw. I am trying to say for such young piglets I would not feed raw potatoes, but cooked would be fine.
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Wizards reply went in as I was typing so basically - what he says.
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thenks everybody means alot as i am jus feeling my way ;D
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Here I go agen! Not sure if I should say Lass but if we can help we will to our best ability youv'e only to ask Lad? :D :farmer:
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as a rule i always cooked any veg for the pigs (they seemed to enjoy it more) apart from brocolli which they loved raw??? fruit on the other hand i just threw in and bananas were the favourite, they went mad for them! in fact they used to queue in a line and i would hand feed them
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Just visualising a row of pigs waiting patiently in a queue for their bananas. :D
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now that would be something to see queing pigs, if only ours would do that lol
altho i have to say following some tips on here we did teach Boris our boar to sit over the weekend shame he had to go on his final journey Monday...
pigs are sooo clever ;D
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Can I feed them cherries?, there is a tree near me which is laden with them.
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Oh yes and they will eat the stones as well.
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Great thanks HM
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My girls go mad for bananas and pears. Not so keen on raw veg but like it cooked.
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We are able to utilise waste from a veg. factory and find ours far prefer the (defrosted) frozen veg which has been blanched first.
Given the choice they will always have fruit in preference to veg.
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Hello Hilarysmum Now don't you go thin skinned on me ;D Wouldn't you? ;D ;D :farmer: :wave:
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Yep they loved the cherries and ate the stones too :pig:
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Tell you what Pigs we have had in the past all loved plums and damsons with the stones in.They all like most fruit especially bananas. ;D :farmer:
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If any of you come near Heathrow, you can pick up hundreds of overripe bananas from the back of Western International. We mash them and put them in the freezer, had over 400 last time. Have had hundred of freshly cut cucumbers from a grower nearby, too, a nice refreshing snack in the hot weather.
My pigs have munched their way through around 1000 bananas this summer alone :P They get all the food they need in pellets and then lots of raw fruit and veg on top. They like raw potatoes but only fresh ones, not the old wrinkly ones of which I have a couple of hundred kilo's. Used to cook the potatoes when the piggies were little, but the volume's way too much, now.
I don't dare give them cherries or any stone fruit in case they choke, am I being paranoid?
Though I think one of them nibbles on small stones, by the sounds of it.
Eve :wave:
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Yes Eve I think you are really.Just you listen to pig cracking nuts with his teeth They seem to love plum stones I have all ways subscribed If they eat it Let them have some.Not anything poisonous of course.Ours all ways liked a large rhubarb leaf.Like us I believe a little bit of anything does you good and them the same
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Like Wizard says ..... and dont yours eat all the acorns and nuts during the autumn glut?
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Thankyou both, cherries it is from now on - I might as well give them mangoes, too!
Mine don't make to the nut season, they'll be in the freezer by then! ;D
Eve :wave:
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Ours love mangoes, in fact one of HIlary's favourite foods is the fruit salad the factory packs. She is also very keen on vegetable curry, although the venting of the resulting gas is to be avoided.
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Hello H again Have you read my story about pig keeping and killing 60 years ago?I talk of Karswood Pig Powders that all country chaps swore by and I am sure it was a curry well the smell was The loved it".It keeps em rate an clean inside boy" Was the word ;D :farmer: