Re Pot bellied pigs and vitamins

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Haribol prabhus,

PAMHO AGTSP

 

We got pot bellied pigs for the same reason, to eat left over prasad as it

generally attracts a rat infestation otherwise. However there was a

difference between the two males, which myself and husband took, and the two

females which Wicklow community took. The pigs in Wicklow were eating the

leftover prasad from Govindas (maybe someone from there will shed more light

on this) but when I saw them they were extremely fat and well on the way to

being like the Manor's which I have seen.

 

We feed ours mainly on a mix of grain and some left over prasadam, as the

temple didn't really want to have pigs around. So we kept one male and

re-homed the other to avoid fighting. The one we have roots through the cow

manure heap, eats grains, some old vegetable matter and some prasad. He's

not at all like the Manor pigs, and maybe it has a lot to do with quantity.

I remember them getting the left-over food for life when I visited, and it

was an enormous amount on the day. We don't feed in huge quantitiies, and

only feed once a day. He has become very regulated, extremely muscular and

not heavy in the under-carraige. Also when I was at the Manor, the pigs were

confined to a hut which barely fitted them both, they had to nip each other

to get past the door-way. Their run was very small, so they are not really

working off the food. We have ours running around in a considerable size

yard, and when they were penned, we moved the pen daily. Maybe they should

move and root a bit more. They generally like mineral licks, and ours

usually takes the broken ones that fall from the cow sheds. He also likes a

molasses lick and takes the left-over tubs from the cows.

 

Final point, about the orange skins, thats the one thing he won't eat. He

wont touch citris peels at all. Maybe ours is just fussy but I'm wondering

if anyone else has found this.

ys

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Haribol Pot bellied pig persons

Pigs have preferences, some prefer pershadim, some prefer pears, prunes

and pineapples. I was suggesting greater intakes of vitamin "C" sense we in

this area have lots of citrus our pigs eat citrus. You are correct that pigs

need excersize. The poor little pot bellied pigs have been bred with

standard pigs and they seem to have back problems and get very swaybacked.

True potbellied pigs should not get over 40 to sixty pounds or 18 to 25K.

They are very funny almost as funny as chickens. They are also very friendly

and are great at digging up your garden in the spring, just before spring

planting. To make a lazy pig excersize put his salt/mineral block on one end

of his pasture and the water on the other and put a sun shade in the middle

so he always has shade but place his food as far away as possible from the

water. The portly porker will have to puff and huff from food to water and

then to shade.

Winston Church hill said "I like pigs, Cats look down on you, dogs look

up to you and a pig treats you like an equal!

Carol

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Suits Winston Churchill maybe.

 

Good info for general exercise of any animal I should think.