Author Topic: Eating Dock plants? (Read 3866 times)

loosey · « **on:** August 10, 2010, 08:31:48 pm »

I'm still loving piggy life! If anyone has any advise for uploading pictures here I'll put some up of my little crew!

Just a question ... is it ok for pigs to eat dock plants? I wants digging them up in the horses field the other day and Daisy was out free ranging (she comes with me to poo pick!) and she devoured a whole plant in about 15 seconds! She went mad for it! I put her back in the paddock just in case whilst I checked with you guys but she grabbed a huge plant and ran back with it only for all other 8 pigs to fight over it!

Bit worried as they're very bad for the horses!

shetlandpaul · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2010, 09:27:27 pm »

they had better be safe were using our to clear a 1/2 acre of them. it was our veg plot.

JulieS · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2010, 05:56:25 am »

Mine love them, and no side effects that I've noticed

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2010, 08:17:11 am »

Mine dont bother with them much which is frustrating. I have a feeling they are ok for humans too.

loosey · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2010, 05:37:01 pm »

Thank god! It's scary how quickly Daisy has become a member of the family!

Apparantly she knocked my OH last night on the leg when he wouldn't rub her ears

. We're due some couples training I think!

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2010, 07:53:36 am »

Dont worry it gets worse, the longer you have them the more there is of them to adore.

JulieS · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2010, 08:05:57 am »

Very true Hilarysmum

humphreymctush · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2010, 08:36:55 am »

Pigs are a good way of clearing a patch of docks because they eat the roots as well. I had a pig once who found a piece of carpet burried in the ground and took it into her ark and layed it out on the floor to sleep on

Hilarysmum · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2010, 12:48:10 pm »

Thats so cute a house proud pig.

Sudanpan · « **Reply #9 on:** August 16, 2010, 05:30:39 pm »

Unfortunately our GOS boys weren't interested in the docks in their paddock

so now I'm going to have to dig them out myself now the boys have gone. I think because the boys had so much room in their paddock they could be picky about what to eat, so went for the tasty things instead

waterboy · « **Reply #10 on:** August 17, 2010, 12:39:52 pm »

yea all ours eat the docks and we've not had a problem.
I have to agree tho they are so addictive and its far to easy to get carried away luckily the OH keeps me in check lol