[harry]

every week i watch blandings bbc 1 sundays...and every week i watch the pig eat cakes blamonge biscutes etc etc ....whats all that about, thought that was illegal

[Fowgill Farm]

Its filmed in ireland
mandy

[Eve]

And the stories are many decades old.
The Empress of Blandings was the winner of the Fattest Pig competition at the Shropshire show - which wasn't achieved with celery and cucumber 
 

[darkbrowneggs]

Its filmed in ireland
mandy

So aren't Ireland covered by the same regulations?

[HappyHippy]

And the stories are many decades old.
The Empress of Blandings was the winner of the Fattest Pig competition at the Shropshire show - which wasn't achieved with celery and cucumber 

They're not being historically accurate though, the Empress wasn't a Middle White, she was a Berkshire 
I only discovered the programme last week and apart from the obvious flouting of feed regulations I love it 

[henchard]

every week i watch blandings bbc 1 sundays...and every week i watch the pig eat cakes blamonge biscutes etc etc ....whats all that about, thought that was illegal

I don't keep pigs but just wonder why you think it is illegal. I thought that the legislation just relates to meat based products?


The following is from The British Pig Association website


http://www.britishpigs.org.uk/feeds.htm


Can milk, milk based products, bakery products, pasta, chocolate, sweet and similar products be fed to livestock?

Milk and milk based products and biscuits, bakery waste, pasta, chocolate, sweet and similar products contain ingredients, such as rennet or melted fat, milk or eggs, which have been incorporated in those products but which are not the main ingredient can be fed to livestock. Adequate measures must be in place to ensure against cross contamination by meat and other products of animal origin.

[Fowgill Farm]

Its filmed in ireland
mandy

So aren't Ireland covered by the same regulations?

They're in the EU too but only us daft buggers keep to the rules though i suspect the owner of the pig will have ensured the pig ate nothing untoward and it wouldn't surprise me that the blancmange was coloured milk set with arrowroot and the bisuits you saw were made up of a pig nut mush reset as bsicuits, tv trickery i think its called
And yes in the original books the Empress was a berkshire, not the middle white we see on tv (though i do think she plays the part superbly especially in the house last night!)
mandy

[Marches Farmer]

Basically anything that's been in a supermarket or a kitchen (even a vegetarian household) is a big NO.  Collect eggs straight from the coop, waste milk straight from the dairy, lift vegetables from the garden and trim them outside, get grain from a local farmer - all OK.

[Bumblebear]

I thought you couldn't feed eggs....

[Hassle]

No you can't but if your chickens lay eggs on the same land as the pigs use then it's the chicken that will be fined not you. 

[Fowgill Farm]

No you can't but if your chickens lay eggs on the same land as the pigs use then it's the chicken that will be fined not you.

 
Mandy