Author Topic: Fodder potatoes (Read 2929 times)

Baswold · « **on:** July 13, 2012, 05:28:28 pm »

Can you let me know if its ok to feed fodder potatoes uncooked and if so is there a limit to how many
Thanks

henchard · « **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2012, 06:44:54 pm »

Try this for info

http://www.britishpigs.org.uk/Newcastle_handbook_of_raw_materials.pdf

It's a useful document (pdf) (A Handbook of Raw Materials and Recommendations for Feeding Practice)

See page 41

hughesy · « **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:13:39 pm »

Search the forum this has been discussed many times. The concensus is that cooked are better than raw.

Eve · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:22:04 pm »

Hilarysmum mentioned some time ago that a bucket of raw potatoes can kill a pig - it's not likely to happen but it can, can't remember why exactly.
Anybody who knows what happened to HM, btw? She posted so often but we haven't heard from her for a year or two now, hope she didn't have to give up keeping pigs or move from France. Her posts were hilarious, we often asked her to write her memoirs

robert waddell · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:51:42 pm »

we used to to dump 4 tons of potatoes in the paddocks at the one time never lost a pig why get potatoes and then spend money cooking them pointless also potatoes are good for maintenance diets only not for fatting or grower pigs that need the correct level of protein

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #5 on:** July 14, 2012, 12:30:54 am »

Raw potato interferes with protein absorption.

If you are buying protein - soya, barley, pig nuts - for your pigs, then feeding raw potatoes means you have to feed more of the expensive protein in order to give the pigs the same nutritional input. Seems a bizarre choice to me.