Is it ok to feed hay to pigs?

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Marionb

Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 6:12 pm Post subject: Is it ok to feed hay to pigs?
What the title says really, sons found that they enjoyed the bit he gave them earlier so he's put more in the hayrack. Just checking it wont do them any harm...?

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 6:14 pm Post subject:
Yep, no problem, they love it.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45468
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 6:15 pm Post subject:
keeping em out of the bales is the problem

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 6:22 pm Post subject:
Give them a bed of hay and try stopping them eating their bed by morning.

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 5174
Location: Somerset

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 6:46 pm Post subject:
Mine wouldn't eat it, even when the ground was frozen solid. Instead, they lay on it so they could sunbathe in the winter sun without lying on the cold ground Barley straw, however, they used to go mad for and I was mobbed whenever I turned up with a fresh bale.

Pel

Joined: 29 Mar 2008
Posts: 2366
Location: Sennybridge

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:12 pm Post subject:
Mum's kunes will eat it if given in small quantities (two handfuls at most) however if given in large quantities just lie on it. But agree with the rest wont do them any harm, and makes their poos firmer/similar to horses.

Camile

Joined: 26 Apr 2006
Posts: 376
Location: Co. Galway - Ireland

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:15 pm Post subject:
Hello, I had some old hay (couple of years old) so was using it as bedding for them .. well they ate the good bits left, choose carefully what was suitable as bedding and threw the rest out to be ploughed into the ground. Fine animals they were. Camile

Marionb

Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 8:02 pm Post subject:
Sounds like we've got nothing to worry about then

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 8:13 pm Post subject:
I used to feed mine a bit of silage from time to time but realise that they haven't got the four stomachs that cows have and that they aren't built for dealing with masses of it.

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 8:16 pm Post subject:
Ours like it from time to time, but like Jo S's they go mad for barely straw. The KK's prefer straw to hay.

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