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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: woollyval on September 16, 2010, 08:25:09 am

Title: Beer
Post by: woollyval on September 16, 2010, 08:25:09 am

I have been rearing pigs for the freezer for donkeys years and in the past when we had access to gallons of milk we fed them on milk and barley. Well we found out this year the local pub was going through gallons of slops so......
We gave them a container to fill ;)
3 pigs 7 months old, 10 pints a day with barley and veg with a bit of finisher.....wow :o the meat is amazing and the taste.... 8) Killed out at 60kg with no more than 2cm back fat (I like a bit of fat for taste) and were Tamworth x Mangaliza. Bacon curing at the moment!

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Post by: scattybiker1972 on September 16, 2010, 08:27:18 am

pickled pork... sorry couldnt resist

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Post by: humphreymctush on September 16, 2010, 08:40:05 am

A friend of mine who does a lot of home brew gives the left over mash to the pigs (they love it) It would be interesting to study the effect of alchohol on different species. As a child I was facinated by drunk wasps feeding on fermenting windfall apples. They seems to behave much like drunk people

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Post by: Hilarysmum on September 16, 2010, 09:18:28 am

Sounds great.  Just don't take them to slaughter with a hangover ....

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Post by: scattybiker1972 on September 16, 2010, 10:23:01 am

 does this mean that the meat is pre marinated?     :pig:

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Post by: Sylvia on September 16, 2010, 10:43:58 am

I first read that as "fed pigs on donkey's milk" !! ;D
We gave a reluctant sow 2 pints of Guiness to persuade her up into the trailer. She staggered in willingly enough but was too drunk to get out at the other end, we couldn't get her to her feet!

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Post by: ballingall on September 16, 2010, 02:15:51 pm

I have to say, I strained and bottled some of my blackcurrant bacardi last week, and what better use did I find for the leftover blackcurrants, but to feed them to the pigs! Sadly, I haven't got access to slops. But they don't have love goats milk.


Beth

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Post by: Anke on September 16, 2010, 09:26:54 pm

What happened to the pigs liver? Eadible or condemmed?

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Post by: pikilily on September 16, 2010, 10:30:40 pm

mmm sound a good idea, but how did you get round the rule about nothing from the kitchen/household going to the pigs?
Emma T

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Post by: Sylvia on September 17, 2010, 08:31:52 am

I dare say it was made in the garage. Like my bread, cooked veg etc. ;D

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Post by: woollyval on September 17, 2010, 12:03:07 pm

Its not food and never went in a kitchen!!!!

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Post by: pikilily on September 17, 2010, 04:11:40 pm

LOL its amazing how many people prepare food, etc, outside and in the sheds and garages!!!
E x

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Post by: Eve on September 17, 2010, 10:56:52 pm

Only 2cm of backfat?? Who says beer is full of calories!  ;D

So did you ever notice them being drunk?


Eve  :wave:

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Post by: Jackie on September 18, 2010, 03:26:11 am

ballingal what an awful waste of vodka soaked blackcurrants!!!! They would have made a great 'grown up' topping for ice cream.  ;D

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Post by: woollyval on September 18, 2010, 11:15:21 pm

Quote from: Eve on September 17, 2010, 10:56:52 pm

Only 2cm of backfat?? Who says beer is full of calories!  ;D

So did you ever notice them being drunk?


Eve  :wave:

Nope but they were very content, chilled and happy :wave:

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Post by: Eve on September 20, 2010, 08:34:26 am

In a permanent state of alcohol-induced bliss, then!  ;D


 :wave: