Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption
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Green Rosie
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Feeding rhubarb to pigsI know rhubarb leaves are poisonous to pigs but can I feed them the stalks? If so would I need to cook them first?
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Nick
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I'd be amazed if they ate them, mine have never touched onions, peppers, leeks or anything with a citrus flavour.
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Green Rosie
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I'll go and offer Boris a stick and see if he turns his nose up at it or not 
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SandraR
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I'll go and offer Boris a stick and see if he turns his nose up at it or not |
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Nicky cigreen
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why would you want to give rhubarb to pigs? If you have more than you need, why not just let it stay on the plant ? - the plant will do better for it, and I can't imagine there is a huge nutritional value to rhubarb.
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Green Rosie
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Boris hasn't got much grass etc to eat in his pen and can't go in the field with the ladies at the moment so I thought if he liked rhubarb .... which I am totally overrun with, it would give him something to chew on and pass the time of day 
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Nicky cigreen
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fair enough. I'm clearing out the apple store into the pigs- we had so many apples last year, that even with selling some we did not get through them, and although they are a big dried up now, the pigs seem to think they are fun.
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