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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: wellies on October 25, 2011, 01:27:24 pm

Title: can pigs eat pumpkin
Post by: wellies on October 25, 2011, 01:27:24 pm

Are Kune Kune pigs allowed to have pumpkin as part of their diet. I have some surplus pumpkin and was wondering if they could have it? Thank you  :wave:

Title: Re: can pigs eat pumpkin
Post by: Andrew on October 25, 2011, 01:32:05 pm

Our pigs adore pumpkins. They use them as footballs for a short period before munching them.

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Post by: TheCaptain on October 25, 2011, 02:06:56 pm

Seconded, my old spots adore them. Those and squash.

Title: Re: can pigs eat pumpkin
Post by: Sylvia on October 25, 2011, 04:06:47 pm

I'm looking forward to Nov. 1st. and going round to buy up unsold pumpkins. My pigs have always had a rare old time with them. A couple of large pumpkins keep them occupied for hours, rolling them up and down the field before finally getting a tooth-hold and pulling them apart ;D

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Post by: FiB on October 25, 2011, 05:30:23 pm

I have never seen anything more joyfully eaten than pumpkin slices (wish I could have let them have a game of footy first, but they are on a mad slope so they would have lost it through the lelectric wire and been very sad :(  !!)

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Post by: hughesy on October 25, 2011, 06:59:51 pm

Ours love pumpkin, squash of any kind or marrow/courgettes. The thing they went craziest for though was over ripe melons.

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Post by: Rich/Jan on October 26, 2011, 06:06:59 pm

they must be happy pigs if they get melon.

Title: Re: can pigs eat pumpkin
Post by: oaklandspigs on October 26, 2011, 06:20:31 pm

So think that's a yes then !!

Ours have been having them for a few days now

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Post by: Rosemary on October 26, 2011, 07:25:15 pm

Love the idea of pigs eating carved pumpkins on the 1st November, slightly scorched inside from the candles.

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Post by: welshlass181 on October 26, 2011, 07:32:55 pm

I read this last night and when i was shopping today i saw pumpkins down to 99p so i bought 4 :) 1 for each pen.  The boars got bored and were only interested when we split it, the weaners got annoyed cos their mouths aren't big enough to get to the flesh so we hit is and they got stuck righ in, the 2 females got right stuck in by themselves and split it and munched it lol and my mum and babies was more intersted in the hard feed and flinging piglets than eating it lol

Title: Re: can pigs eat pumpkin
Post by: Fowgill Farm on October 27, 2011, 10:16:13 am

We cut big ones in half and the piglets stand in the middle of them and munch the edges!
Splitting them is a good idea and then they don't roll out of reach!
HTH
mandy  :pig:

Title: Re: can pigs eat pumpkin
Post by: white-blazes on October 29, 2011, 05:54:49 pm

After reading this topic I bought 2 yesterday and cut them in half so all 4 pigs got a go. I gave them to them this morning, wandered down to sort the horses out and about half an hour later went back to the pigs and there was no evidence whatsoever that the pumpkins had been there, every scrap gone - wow :pig: