[jimmytwice41]

Can i feed pig's waste vegetable peeling's from my brother and father's allotment??

[bloomer]

as i understand it so long as they have never been into the kitchen, so straight from the allotment thats fine...

[HappyHippy]

Yup, as Bloomer says - nothing from your kitchen, it's actually illegal 

If you're peeling the veggies outside (at the allotment or in an outhouse) then it would be okay, but if they've been in a kitchen there is potential for cross contamination, which could potentially lead to a disease outbreak, hence why it's illegal.
Tatties are best not fed raw and tomato haulms are poisonous. Onions and parsnips can sometimes cause blisters on their mouths, but apart from that they eat most things (in moderation  )
HTH
Karen 

[MAK]

Yep - make an outdoor kitchen area to protect you from the elements and make life easier. My two won't eat the tops of leeks but love my morning bannana skin ( label removed and eaten in the garden). They fight for the beetroot that I cook up outside in LOTS of water. Looks like a bit of a blood bath after they have finished but they go mad for it ( sweet I guess).

[Marches Farmer]

If your bananas have been in the kitchen, even to be unpacked from the shopping bags, that's a no-no.  I keep an old chopping board and knife in the shed and do basic trimming outside and chuck the waste into a skip bucket.  The raspberry bed is behind some of the pigsties and I throw the damaged fruit straight over to the sties.  The pigs hear them skittering down the tin roof and rush outside looking skywards.

[jimmytwice41]

Thank you all for your feedback, has been very helpful.

[MAK]

The bananas may have been in the same bag and same car as other food stuffs that ended up on one of our 3 kitchen chopping boards. Best I tell the pigs about that when we do our home kill tomorrow morning ( in rural France).
We keep 2 pigs for our own consumption that we buy in tagged each spring. Therafter they never leave their sty or large field and we do not traumatise them with a trip to an abbatoir and overnight stay with other animals or the horrid journey into an abbatoirs killing zone guided by an electric probe.
I say this as somewhere along the line we chose to care for animals better than we could in the UK and I am pleased to feed them a bannana rather than chuck them a few industrially produced nuts into 18 inches of mud slurry ( as I have seen on farms keeping  "rare breed outdoor reared UK pigs").
Sorry if I sound reactionary but most regulations were written as a response to failings of industrially produced animal feeds a few years back and maybe some irresponsible "keepers". John Seymour (The complete book of self sufficiencey) would be aghast if he was told not to feed a pig a banana skin if it had been in his kitchen.  His words on feeding pigs included washing the gravy off of plates - this may have gone too far but when he wrote his book life was less complicated and his then ways in the context of a smallholder were not irresponsible.
There will be some who are now concerned that I feed a banana that may have been in a fruit bowl in our open plan kitchen/living room but I really don't think it a risk to my beloved pigs. However who knows what was chucked into the pellets that most of us can buy from the agro' merchant.

[Hassle]

MAK ....

[Marches Farmer]

Yes, I would love to feed all kitchen waste to my pigs - they are omnivores like us, after all.  BUT just how would I feel if that banana skin had been in brief contact with some overseas pork product somewhere along the line and our farm was the first in a chain that led to millions of animals being burned in funeral pyres across the UK as happened in 2003?  John Seymour lived, bless him, in a different world and the present F&M free status of the UK is vital to our exports of both meat and breeding stock.