[Hermit]

We plan to keep pigs as our next project, we used to breed our own  large whites and saddlebacks many moons ago but then regs were different and fed food from bread factories and bakers etc.  We do not like to think from habit I suppose that we are bag feeding all the time as that seems 'plastic' and unatural to us. We are in a position now to plough and plant our own pig food veggies, we always fed meal as well as ,but what crops would you pig keepers recomend as ideal for pigs.

[Eve]

How much land do you have available for the pigs? If you have a large woodland area that would give them access to foraged foods and in that case some woodland farmers would be able to tell you what they top their pigs' diets up with.

Have a look at out the regulations on feeding leftovers from bakeries etc, and there are some threads on this forum about them, too. It's not a blanket ban on anything edible, we still get loads of fruit and veg from a few wholesalers for our pigs.

 

[Hilarysmum]

Check first in case its different in UK but here in Brittany its normal to feed bread and factory excess.  A very large elevage locally has a contract with our local biscuit/cake factory to take all their surplus and rejects. 

[robert waddell]

in Scotland you cannot feed raw eggs to pigs yet we have heared of pancake mix being feed to to pigs in england they have the contract for the waste and rejects

[Rosemary]

in Scotland you cannot feed raw eggs to pigs yet we have heared of pancake mix being feed to to pigs in england they have the contract for the waste and rejects

The egg in the mix is probably pasteurised.

[Hermit]

We have about 1/2 acre of shallow soil onto bedrock for the pigs as we are on peat and not good for wallowing. We intend to divide the land into four to alternate the pigs so they dont get bogged down but enough to have a wallow. The land for ploughing we think is about an acre, no woodland though . We were thinking turnips, potatoes , beet etc. I know they cant be fed one crop