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Hi all,
Has anyone exerienced this before? I am on my 4th lot of GOS Weaners, we keep 5 at a time. Good nature and great meat. This most recent batch, who are around 6 weeks from slaughter, are so unbelievably fussy. They will not eat any kitchen scraps or even top notch forage from the veg patch...not even beetroot which previous lots would kill for! All they eat is the pig pellets. Never seen anything like it...I hope this does not have a negative impact on the meat. I always like to believe that they great flavour is, in some part, due to the wonderful a varied veggie diet the boys have had in the past.....

[robert waddell]

pigs can be funny if you cut the pellets down they will eat  anything

[Sylvia]

Agreed! Give them the waste first then, when eaten, the pellets.

[otto]

Will do........

[little blue]

They will not eat any kitchen scraps

perhaps they are DEFRA Moles?! 

[princesspiggy]

did u buy them in? id guess they havent bin free range and never got the chance to root about and r only used to pellets.
we had the opposite problem of bought in pigs that wudnt eat pellets cos they were only used to tatties and veg etc. took a fair few hungry days before they would eat a normal amount.

[Berkshire Boy]

You shouldn't be giving them kitchen scraps anyway. 

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You shouldn't be giving them kitchen scraps anyway. 

BB only referring to food prep scraps not cooked food!
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[YorkshireLass]

Still illegal :p Unless you peel your spuds outside and therefore the peelings never cross the threshold 

[Eve]

We've had fussy ones, they sometimes take some time getting used to certain foods. If they were getting scraps from a young age they tend to eat most things when they arrive at our place.
 

[Fowgill Farm]

You shouldn't be giving them kitchen scraps anyway. 

BB only referring to food prep scraps not cooked food!

If your food prep scraps are prepared in your kitchen you can't give them to your pigs, any food that passes thro a domestic or catering kichen cannot be fed to fed to pigs> It is Illegal but if you prepare the veg outside stright from your garden and it never goes in your kitchen it can be fed to them.

HTh

mandy

[otto]

  I hadn't appreciated that! Better do the rough trimming in the veg garden from now on!