All of the excess skim milk from our little hand milking "dairy" when I was a kid went to the hogs, and they loved it. We milked up to 5 cows, and sold a lot of the milk whole, to customers who came to the farm, but the rest went through the separator. We sold the cream to the local creamery, the family drank a lot of skim milk, but the hogs got the rest. I don't think selling milk or cream like that is even legal today, but that was how we made some money back then.
Once we had a problem with the cows eating wild onions and the creamery would not accept the can of cream, which smelled strongly of onion. So my Dad brought it home and fed it to the single hog we had at the time. All that cream made the hog sick--my Dad said he thought it caused liver damage. We never did that again...but we ate the hog and the meat was just great.
I would be a little concerned with "spoiled" or rotten milk, as opposed to some that was slightly soured. Spoiled milk smells awful, and I suspect that bacteria that should not be consumed causes the spoilage. Sour milk should be OK.
Like any other food, it is probably best to limit the amount of any exotic food that animals are fed. In other words, a little milk would probably be a great treat for hogs. A whole lot of it might make them sick. Good luck!
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