Author Topic: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!  (Read 3020 times)

Azzdodd

  • Joined Apr 2012
Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
« on: January 21, 2014, 10:27:45 am »
Local veg shop gave me 4 boxes of sugar snap peas and runner beans I thought that will be a nice treat for the pigs......turned there nose up at it! There far too struck on these pig nuts that cost so much  :huff:

JulieWall

  • Joined Aug 2013
  • Cornhill, Banff
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Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2014, 10:40:47 am »
Ours wouldn't eat greens either at first. I guessed it might be because they had never been fed them as weaners but carried on offering them anyway, mixed in with the nuts. Eventually they decided they liked them.
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hughesy

  • Joined Feb 2010
  • Anglesey
Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2014, 11:14:34 am »
They can be fussy. Ours have got used to fruit and juicy veg like carrots and spuds so they often turn their nose up at cabbages etc which they used to love.

MKay

  • Joined Jan 2013
Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2014, 01:19:35 pm »
Crack a few to let the juices out

Tudful Tamworths

  • Joined Aug 2009
    • Liz's website
Re: Well my pigs don't like pea's or beans!!
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2014, 07:10:25 pm »
I wouldn't feed raw runner beans. They can be toxic to pigs (and a few other animals, I think).

I remember feeding some to piglets years and years ago and two were really ill. Luckily, they recovered.

Peas will be okay, though.
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