[Daisys Mum]

Yep they loved the cherries and ate the stones too 

[Wizard]

Tell you what Pigs we have had in the past all loved plums and damsons with the stones in.They all like most fruit especially bananas.

[Eve]

If any of you come near Heathrow, you can pick up hundreds of overripe bananas from the back of Western International. We mash them and put them in the freezer, had over 400 last time. Have had hundred of freshly cut cucumbers from a grower nearby, too, a nice refreshing snack in the hot weather.

My pigs have munched their way through around 1000 bananas this summer alone They get all the food they need in pellets and then lots of raw fruit and veg on top. They like raw potatoes but only fresh ones, not the old wrinkly ones of which I have a couple of hundred kilo's. Used to cook the potatoes when the piggies were little, but the volume's way too much, now.

I don't dare give them cherries or any stone fruit in case they choke, am I being paranoid?
Though I think one of them nibbles on small stones, by the sounds of it.

Eve 

[Wizard]

Yes Eve I think you are really.Just you listen to pig cracking nuts with his teeth They seem to love plum stones I have all ways subscribed If they eat it Let them have some.Not anything poisonous of course.Ours all ways liked a large rhubarb leaf.Like us I believe a little bit of anything does you good and them the same

[Hilarysmum]

Like Wizard says ..... and dont yours eat all the acorns and nuts during the autumn glut?

[Eve]

Thankyou both, cherries it is from now on - I might as well give them mangoes, too!

Mine don't make to the nut season, they'll be in the freezer by then! 


Eve 

[Hilarysmum]

Ours love mangoes, in fact one of HIlary's favourite foods is the fruit salad the factory packs.  She is also very keen on vegetable curry, although the venting of the resulting gas is to be avoided.

[Wizard]

Hello H again Have you read my story about pig keeping and killing 60 years ago?I talk of Karswood Pig Powders that all country chaps swore by and I am sure it was a curry well the smell was The loved it".It keeps em rate an clean inside boy" Was the word