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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Jackie on July 21, 2010, 09:38:55 am

Title: Ivy and pigs
Post by: Jackie on July 21, 2010, 09:38:55 am

Hi this is Stacy, Jackies' daughter, she has asked me to message you all as she's at the farm and has no internet.
Is ivy (normal garden ivy) poisonous to pigs? Mum wants to put the pigs into a wooded area where there is lots of ivy growing up trees
Thankyou

Title: Re: Ivy and pigs
Post by: Hilarysmum on July 21, 2010, 09:39:52 am

I dont think its poisonous as sheep can eat it.  However they will probably ignore it.

Title: Re: Ivy and pigs
Post by: oaklandspigs on July 21, 2010, 07:33:48 pm

Yes the pigs will not eat it, but they may well destroy it.

We put some on a patch in a wood which had ground ivy.  They rooted it all up whilst they looked for other stuff, and killed it in the process.  All sorts of nice stuff now grows in what was a choked area.

Title: Re: Ivy and pigs
Post by: Roxy on July 21, 2010, 11:54:18 pm

I use ivy as a tonic to perk my goats up if they have been ill.  Just the leaves, not the bits with berries on.  They go mad for it.  Not sure about pigs having it though.

Title: Re: Ivy and pigs
Post by: AWP on July 22, 2010, 09:41:47 am

My Pigs live in a woodland, which was full of ground ivy, also the trees were covered in it as well, they ate the lot over a period of time, and they were all fine!