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We have 2 pigs we are butcher when the lodge scraps stop coming,,end of sept. I give them about a 5gal bucket of scraps a day and usually cook 2 or 3 salmon for them. A neighoring loge will give us more,,,do the bones need to be taken out?? Ribs,,chicken..T bones ??? Thanks in advance,,, Jim

no they will eat anything

They are scavenger type animals, eat anything the come across.

Including the owners, more than once!

Except zucchini. Ours would NOT eat zucchini.

Might be something to be learned from that.............

upplddy pig. down here they won't cull nothing you give them eat. farm pig or wild

Mom threw potato peelings to my cousin's hogs, neglecting to remove the potato peeler first. Concrete feed floor. Peeler never showed up.

Before you slaughter give each 1 fifth of the cheapest vodka you can find. They will drink it straight down out of the bottle.

Um only in the freezer and package wraps

Are you feeding 100% scraps?

Never heard anyone claiming that produces great pork.
Lotta folks feed scraps and old bread. Most, switch to
a grain based food for several weeks finishing.

That is our intention as well!

I know our cull pumpkins and squash go through the pigs just fine...... old timers say that the pumpkin seeds worm the pigs.

I took about 30 pumpkins to the swamp in November after Halloween last year thinking all the critters would eat. Nothing. Deer, hogs, squirrels, turkeys... nobody would eat.

we fed scraps from a restaurant every day tell about 2 weeks before killing. then put them on pork finisher . scraps were picked up every day out of a walk in cooler from the night before . 5gal buckets were washed out after feeding time with soap & water .we never had a prob. with rank hogs

Yeah............ Maybe we had uppity, spoiled pigs. Dunno. I thought they were just a nice batch of Berks.

We'd take down a row of sweet corn stalks with a machete when the row was picked out. Throw those in and the pigs would fight over them. So one day I decided to toss in some oversize zucchini in for a treat. They nosed them around and walked away. So I got in and sliced the zucchinis lengthwise figuring that'd turn them on to eating them. Nope. Those zucchinis got shoveled out with the turds next time we cleaned of the pen.

We never feed ours anykind of meat.
They will not eat green bell pepper.

I always fed ours grain and shorts, plus any green corn stocks and plants from the garden. Guy down the road fed garbage and meat scraps. I tasted some of his pork once. Mine tasted a heck of a lot better.

Come fall when the garden was done, I put an electric wire around it and turned the pigs into it.Them rooting around for leftover stuff and their manure made a good garden the next year

Good thinkin' right there. Yep.

Way back yonder when, a fellow in the community fed his hogs scraps from the school. His wife was head cook and he carried off the scraps. He had some of the finest hogs in the community, but he always finished them for a few weeks on corn and shorts, before slaughter.