[Button End Beasts]

It never ceases to amaze me how fussy pigs can be! There's lots of lovely fresh fruit and veg from the garden going my pigs way.


They like: oversized courgettes, pears, apples
They won't touch: French beans, butternut squash, aubergines, peppers
Kunes will eat potatoes, OSB won't touch them.


Bonkers, don't they know they are supposed to be pigs!


Would be funny to hear what others pigs like

[Bionic]

My pigs liked melon, advocados and pineapple the best.
The ate carrots eventually but wern't all that keen

[Fowgill Farm]

BEB... mine don't like beans, citrus and that's about it but we do have a root chopper that shreds everything so they get little shreds rather than gluts of stuff which can be off putting even to a pig, little and often I find gets rid of most garden glut. Cherry tomatoes are brucie boar's fave at the mo ten in one go taken gently from your fingers thro the fence, spolit boy
mandy

[oaklandspigs]

it's not breeds, its individual pigs - all are different.
 
overall our osb's eat everything you say yours won't, but some will not eat potatoes, and some won't touch peppers, others eat with relish !
 
 

[JulieWall]

We are busy trying to induce our two new weaners to eat apples for goodness sakes They are ploughing up the grassland so well we named one of them Fergie, the other then became the duchess of pork, it got a bit cryptic as Fergie was ginger etc, lol
I guess if they didn't start out on polytunnel surplus they need to know what it is, eh? Would it be worth us giving them short rations of the pig food so that they are a bit hungrier?

[Liam_86]

Mine like aubergines and peppers - but wont eat cabbage or brocolli.

[Button End Beasts]

I can add sweet corn and giant cucumbers to the list of likes. And this morning, the Kunes ate the squash when it was hacked up a bit. OSBs still ignored it!


The pigs are very useful as I feel less guilty now about never picking and eating the veg I grow. These days, nothing is wasted and I feel good about letting the veg grow giant or go over. Liberating!

[Small Plot Big Ideas]

It took a day or two but our 2 Tamworth weaners took to eating the cabbages that I've given up - rather them than the caterpillars getting it all!


My next task is teaching the weaners to play fetch with the cabbage! 

[Eastling]

Our like everything sweet, They wont eat cabbage or beans raw but will eat most things if cooked(outside of course)


Small plot big ideas you could treat them to a horse snak ball it wont take them long to work it out! I think Rosemary has a video of hers with one.

[jimmy]

Mine won't touch our courgettes, which is a real pain because we're overrun with the things at the moment!
I thought about boiling them up for a bit to soften them up, but haven't done so yet.

Has anyone tried pumpkins? Apparently pigs raised in China I think it was, are fed almost entirely on pumpkin...

I planted some pumpkins a while back, but sadly overrun with weeds now

[Tamsaddle]

Ours are like fussy children - anything sweet, no greens.   Overripe plums, apples, pears, peaches, melons, squash, bananas hugely popular.   All beans and cabbage type things shunned.   Oddly, one of the biggest treats they love is freshly picked bindweed, which I throw into the plot as I am weeding, yards and yards of the stuff as we are over run with it.  They squabble over it as if it was the best thing ever, and each new batch of pigs has exactly the same reaction.   Most surprising.

[Button End Beasts]

Oooh what a great tip. I must remember to give the bindweed to to the pigs. Isnt it related to deadly nightshade or some type of hallucinogenic climber? Maybe thats why they like it. 
I have some little mini pumpkins which I gave one to the kunes and they ate it after I smashed it up with a spade. Didnt bother with the big pig,

[JulieWall]

We gave ours a massive sow thistle today and they ate it, yay! I was cutting it for the rabbits and I thought about the name - well it must be a favourite to be called sow thistle so result!!
Once they get used to being given cut greens of any sort the ball is rolling I think.

[Small Plot Big Ideas]

In case any proof was needed, here's one of our weaners tucking into a freshly harvested cabbage. They can't wait to tuck into them now but weren't quite so enthusiastic when I first tried it...

[Button End Beasts]

Wow small plot. What a great site your pigs have to live in. Wouldn't mind it myself. Lucky pigs!