Author Topic: Grass cuttings and pigs  (Read 9969 times)

hexhammeasure

  • Joined Jun 2008
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Grass cuttings and pigs
« on: July 01, 2012, 12:56:06 pm »
I know that grass cuttings are poisonous to ruminants... but can you feed lawn cuttings to pigs?
Ian

omnipeasant

  • Joined May 2012
  • Llangurig , Mid Wales
Re: Grass cuttings and pigs
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 01:12:37 pm »
I wouldn't feed lawn cuttings to anything because it gets mushed up but if you have longer grass strimming it and feeding to pigs, goats, horses is okay. Put the mowings on the compost heap instead.

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Grass cuttings and pigs
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 01:25:42 pm »
I read on another forum that you could feed the grass cuttings to pigs straight from the mower box
 I know you cant feed it to horses and goats
Graham

suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
  • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: Grass cuttings and pigs
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 02:20:59 pm »
I think the year before last we fed grass cuttings to the pigs from the mower box and they loved it.

This year we have no lawn so I gave them a big pile that I had scythed and they rather turned their noses up at it
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oaklandspigs

  • Joined Nov 2009
  • East Sussex
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Re: Grass cuttings and pigs
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 06:43:33 pm »
We regularly feed grass clippings to pigs and they love them.
 
2 rules.
 
1. no pesticides used on  lawn
2. feed straight away - that way they don't start to compost with heat
 
Otherwise go for it !
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hexhammeasure

  • Joined Jun 2008
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Re: Grass cuttings and pigs
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012, 08:47:28 am »
Thanks for the rsponses.. next cut I will save a barrow for them... the ducks geese hens and compost heap will have to share!
Ian

Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
    • tunkeyherd.co.uk
Re: Grass cuttings and pigs
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 11:03:51 pm »
Ian, my Kune Kunes love the grass cuttings.  As Oaklands says, no pesticides & they need to be fresh, also nothing poisonous - ragwort, poison parsley, foxglove etc - as they will not be able to identify them once cut.
 :love: :pig: :love:
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