Before we had pigs I was led to believe they would eat everything and anything, so why don't ours? There commercial pigs are now eating since the weekend this years cereal, they don't think much of it . It must have a different taste.
So in order to get them eating, like children they are being coaxed into liking it by adding a few extras to the mix. A little bit of salt added to water, not too much as this would be bad for them seems to get their taste buds going as well as a few scraps from the garden, veg peelings and tomatoes. Tonight they also got a armful of weeds each.
They do enjoy most things especially stale bread which is saved by neighbours, this is only a summer treat as he said neighbours are holiday home owners. Sometimes there is even the odd croissant or pain au chocolate.
What they do not like is onions, citrus fruit, green beans, asparagus and some weeds, especially docks - no ones likes docks. As these pigs are for meat only vegetable matter is fed to them. Given the choice I am sure they would eat meat, our black sow has eaten a couple of her piglets before, probably where they had been rolled on and died.
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