Posted by Chris in MO on August 03, 2008 at 18:40:34 from (72.161.9.151):
We are in the habit for the last handful of years of feeding grass clippings, etc. to our hogs. We mow around the odd corners which are hard to get portable electric fence around and also on the edges of our market garden and in our home orchard.
These clippings go to the hogs we are hand feeding. Little pigs get no grass, sows getting close to farrowing get less grass and more grain. As the babies get older we introduce them to it with nice tender clover. Finishing hogs stay on mostly grain, though we do give them a little grass for variety. Our boar gets all he will eat. He has a real taste for greens and will spend more than an hour munching them down.
Of course in winter there is none, though we do feed alfalfa chaff mixed into their grain. (We get the alfalfa chaff out of the milking goats feeders.)
They seem to do well on this. I know that the summer litters (after all this feeding) are always larger and the pigs healthier when they come out than winter litters.
Does anyone else have experience with this practice? Just curious.
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