[showbiz]

hi everybody new member here jus wondering if i can feed my 9week old saddlebacks whole  uncooked fruit and veg such as potatoes and apples as i grow these myself already

[Wizard]

Potatoes should be cooked as pigs are as you know very greedy things and will scoff any thing in the trough and out come to that They have been known to choke on potato The old way was boil them in a copper down the garden and at feeding times get a scoop of them and the water they were boiled in and mash them then mix in their barley meal put it in the trough and add a pail of water Prorate for their size of course a 10 week old doesn't need as much as one thats ready to kill next week

[Hilarysmum]

Fruit would be fine, personally I dont feed raw potatoes, and mine for the most part would not eat them if I did.   Cooked potatoes are easier to digest, the pigs are able to get more goodness out of them than if they are raw.  I am trying to say for such young piglets I would not feed raw potatoes, but cooked would be fine.  

[Hilarysmum]

Wizards reply went in as I was typing so basically -  what he says.

[showbiz]

thenks everybody means alot as i am jus feeling my way

[Wizard]

Here I go agen! Not sure if I should say Lass but if we can help we will to our best ability youv'e only to ask Lad?

[WinslowPorker]

as a rule i always cooked any veg for the pigs (they seemed to enjoy it more) apart from brocolli which they loved raw??? fruit on the other hand i just threw in and bananas were the favourite, they went mad for them! in fact they used to queue in a line and i would hand feed them

[Hilarysmum]

Just visualising a row of pigs waiting patiently in a queue for their bananas.   

[waterboy]

now that would be something to see queing pigs, if only ours would do that lol
altho i have to say following some tips on here we did teach Boris our boar to sit over the weekend shame he had to go on his final journey Monday...
pigs are sooo clever 

[Daisys Mum]

Can I feed them cherries?, there is a tree near me which is laden with them.

[Hilarysmum]

Oh yes and they will eat the stones as well. 

[Daisys Mum]

Great thanks HM

[Helencus]

My girls go mad for bananas and pears. Not so keen on raw veg but like it cooked.

[Hilarysmum]

We are able to utilise waste from a veg. factory and find ours far prefer the (defrosted) frozen veg which has been blanched first. 

Given the choice they will always have fruit in preference to veg.

[Wizard]

Hello Hilarysmum Now don't you go thin skinned on me Wouldn't you?