OOOPS! We got Major Problem! HELP!

[PigSutton]

Wet them and sprinkle brown sugar or another type of alternative sweetener?

It sounds like a good guess

[Stevie G]

Originally Posted by PigSutton

Wet them and sprinkle brown sugar or another type of alternative sweetener?

It sounds like a good guess

Malasses was an earlier suggetsion along with cooking them, and I still waiting for Rotherwell to buy a silver platter and knapkins, as I very rarely known pigs to be fussy, so theres got to be something wrong with them!

[blonde]

Do you eat using a silver platter and a napkin, or in front of the teli??? Cause my pigs eat out of a tin trough....no silver platter or napkin here.

Put a fire under a 44 gallon drum, bring the water with the grain to the boil, and add the artichokes. When cooked let the fire go out and leave to cool. The grain will swell and the artichokes will soften. Give a good mix and bucket out to pigs I reckon the pigs will slip in to this and scoff the lot....happy eating every one!!!

[border]

Why don't you try and sell them at a farmers market, or see if a farm shop will take them. I am sure if you ask around you will find somebody who will sell them for you.

[Stevie G]

Originally Posted by border

Why don't you try and sell them at a farmers market, or see if a farm shop will take them. I am sure if you ask around you will find somebody who will sell them for you.

My oh my Blonde, your pigs eat out of a trough. Hmmmm, so advanced for an outdoor piggery. A field above the rest!(or should that be "a cut above the rest", ho ho.)

[blonde]

Originally Posted by Rockrothwell

Stevie et all,

your right, always best to test the waters before you jump in.

However, Jerome Belanger's book swears they love them and from what i've read pigs will eat anything edible to man. We got another 4 beasts yesterday and they won't eat the damned Jerusalem artichokes either.

So much for the experts...... I suppose it comes down to personal tastes. Maybe they are just a bunch of snobs. I have a big batch of artichokes right next to the pen..... so will continue to chuck bits over the fence at them. if they don't eat them then will withhold feed for a day & give them access to the artichokes. Hate to do it, but when you get a bit hungry, tastes change.

If ANYONE has suggestions as to how to get them eating Jerusalem Artichokes it would be very much appreciated as, although it won't hurt them, withholding food for a day is never appreciated by anyone & we want these guys happy, healty, fat & sassy.

Shane

Piglets are only 7 weeks not 7 years old. An old sow might chew on them ....yes .....but this piggy is only a baby and would probably not know quite what to expect with artichokes. Mum is usually the teach of what to eat and how to eat it while still on mum after that they kknow it all suppposedly. So they eat what you give them.....but these oare only babies....I would not expect them to eat artichokes, and certainly not the whole block....sorry fellas!!!

[RedborneSchoolFarm]

Pigs are not ruminants like sheep and cattle and so will struggle to digest a lot of things roots and tubers can be one of them. You shouldn't really feed them potatoes for example as they give them terrible wind and make clearing up interesting. The other issue is if they have been stored in the open. Many roots and tubers will generate toxins to stop them being eaten, you may find that the pigs can smell this and will not eat them. Cooking will remove most toxins and will make them much more palatable.

[vendelboe]

Rember that pigs has 200 times more taste buds in relation to humans.

(sorry for bad english)

[blonde]

Originally Posted by vendelboe

Rember that pigs has 200 times more taste buds in relation to humans.

(sorry for bad english)

You would not realize that the way the pig their food down..... they almost look like they taste nothing on the way down.