The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: loosey on August 10, 2010, 08:31:48 pm
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:pig: :wave:
I'm still loving piggy life! If anyone has any advise for uploading pictures here I'll put some up of my little crew!
Just a question ... is it ok for pigs to eat dock plants? I wants digging them up in the horses field the other day and Daisy was out free ranging (she comes with me to poo pick!) and she devoured a whole plant in about 15 seconds! She went mad for it! I put her back in the paddock just in case whilst I checked with you guys but she grabbed a huge plant and ran back with it only for all other 8 pigs to fight over it!
Bit worried as they're very bad for the horses! ??? :o
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they had better be safe were using our to clear a 1/2 acre of them. it was our veg plot.
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Mine love them, and no side effects that I've noticed :)
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Mine dont bother with them much which is frustrating. I have a feeling they are ok for humans too.
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Thank god! It's scary how quickly Daisy has become a member of the family!
Apparantly she knocked my OH last night on the leg when he wouldn't rub her ears >:(. We're due some couples training I think!
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Dont worry it gets worse, the longer you have them the more there is of them to adore.
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Very true Hilarysmum :love: :pig: :love:
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Pigs are a good way of clearing a patch of docks because they eat the roots as well. I had a pig once who found a piece of carpet burried in the ground and took it into her ark and layed it out on the floor to sleep on
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Thats so cute a house proud pig. :D
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Unfortunately our GOS boys weren't interested in the docks in their paddock :( so now I'm going to have to dig them out myself now the boys have gone. I think because the boys had so much room in their paddock they could be picky about what to eat, so went for the tasty things instead ;D
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yea all ours eat the docks and we've not had a problem.
I have to agree tho they are so addictive and its far to easy to get carried away luckily the OH keeps me in check lol