[WinslowPorker]

Hello everybody again, it's been a while!


Just got some pigs today, 2 are pietrains and the other 2 are saddleback x with , anyway just wanted some clarification on what vegetables you us feed the pigs, I kow onions are a no no and potatoes have to be cooked ( which you can't do in your own home I assume??) so what can hey have raw straight from the supermarket or vegetable stall??


Hope everyone is well


WP

[trying]

Hi, we feed pretty much any veg to our pigs, we find they will eat what they like and leave what they don't, ours are not keen on cabbage and Lucy will not eat aubergine   we dont give them anything from the onion or citrus family, they love bread, cakes and biscuits but do not allow to much or you will have fat pigs, we concider all this as extra treats and find that young growing pigs need good quality pig meal.
Ann

[HappyHippy]

Ours prefer fruit to veg (spoilt piggies  ) any kind of fruit - melon, grapes, pineapple, kiwi fruit, bananas, apples.........just about anything  But they will eat carrots, turnip/swede, brocolli and cabbages if there's nothing else on offer.
A camping stove with a dedicated pot & knife kept outside somewhere (garage/shed) does the trick for cooking up potatoes, mine LOVE cooked up sweet potatoes - go mad for them so they do 
HTH
Karen

[Beewyched]

Nice to see you back WP 
Again - ours get most veg & fruit.  Apart from the obvious onion family, celery & parsnips, & of course the spuds need boiling-up.  They leave what they don't like, which gets added to the compost heap - if the chucks don't scavenge it 
Some of it is individual preference - some eat swede, others won't consider it, same goes with cabbage, broad beans ... but as Karen says they'll pretty much eat most fruit.
 

[robert waddell]

if a pig is hungry enough it will eat anything    onions will give them mouth ulcers then that is mistaken for foot and mouth disease lemons and limes would be an acquired taste   oranges grapefruit  if cut in half they will eat the segments and leave the skin    rotten potatoes they go mental for

[sokel]

Ours eat just about anything except parsnips, aubergenes and citris fruits.
We where cooking our potatoes up on a big calor gas ring we have but discovered by accident that our GOSs actualy eat them raw as long as they are cut up , when we had our tamworths they would not even taste them raw 
Ours love bananas and Kiwis, just aswell as they are getting a 10kg box a day between them 

[SouthMains]

We where cooking our potatoes up on a big calor gas ring we have but discovered by accident that our GOSs actualy eat them raw as long as they are cut up , when we had our tamworths they would not even taste them raw 


I am not sure if it the same with pigs as chickens, but basically you can feed them raw or cooked potatoes, the difference is that they get almost no nutrients out of the raw potatoes, whereas if you cook them they get a good range of nutrients.  So neither are bad for them just that if you have the means to cook them then you will be providing the animals with more nutrients (the same is true for carrots - even in humans as the cellwall in carrots is hard that this is one of the few vegetable for human consumption where it is better to cook it rather than eat it raw)

[Beewyched]

We where cooking our potatoes up on a big calor gas ring we have but discovered by accident that our GOSs actualy eat them raw as long as they are cut up , when we had our tamworths they would not even taste them raw 


I am not sure if it the same with pigs as chickens, but basically you can feed them raw or cooked potatoes, the difference is that they get almost no nutrients out of the raw potatoes, whereas if you cook them they get a good range of nutrients.  So neither are bad for them just that if you have the means to cook them then you will be providing the animals with more nutrients (the same is true for carrots - even in humans as the cellwall in carrots is hard that this is one of the few vegetable for human consumption where it is better to cook it rather than eat it raw)

I didn't know that - thanks for this useful info SM 

[Bionic]

Mine aren't keen on any veg. Fruit they lovem particularly anything red i.e. strawberries, tomatoes,  They do have the occasional orange which I give whole. They seem to love to bite into it and slurp all the juicy bits, leaving the rind. They also really love avocado. Its great fun to see them with green mouths
They will eat cooked potatoes but only as a last resort.
Sally

[Berkshire Boy]

Mine love beetroot, look like vampire pigs when finished.

[WarescotFarm]

ours would never eat turnips randomly, and I heard garlic can make the meat taste funny but not sure if that is old wives watsits.
Ours went CRAZY for eggs, not that they are vegetables 

[robert waddell]

garlic is meant to get rid of the worms   if garlic taints the meat what like will it be feeding other strong foods
eggs should not be fed to pigs only if they find a clutch of eggs

[WarescotFarm]

They were hard boiled is that any better?  (we checked eggs on the pig 'do not feed' list and it wasn't there - anything bad in eggs for them??)
They enjoyed cider too (intending to flavour the meat  )

[WinslowPorker]

Thanks guys, bananas seem to be getting well enjoyed at the moment but it's fruit market tomorrow so who knows what treats they will get!,

[ambriel]

We give our Kunes lettuce, carrots, apples, and bananas in addition to sow rolls plus what they forage.


They don't seem keen on cauliflower. They also like bread and rolls which we get substantially reduced from the local shop when it's gone out of date - not too much though.