do pigs eat hay?

yeah thats the question...do pigs eat hay?

Yep, they sure do.

yes , when we had hogs outside we always seeded it down with lindo(sp) clover

I suppose if you mix it with some thing they like, they do eat grass

We used to grind some into their feed on occasion.

I think pigs will eat anything. I have seen a pig grab a live chicken, It was gone in a heart beat!!

They get fed our wet stuff.

They will root in straw for the grain kernels.

YES.... They eat everything. But like humans the prefer some food over others.

Yes they do. We feed a bale or two a day to the sows. keeps them content and they are not always hungary.
Brian

Apparently they will eat just about anything. I'm a Civil War buff; one of the more disturbing things in the aftermath of a battle was the fact that the wild hogs feasted on the dead (and dying.)

Do you mean food scraps, that is banned here downunder.

when i was a kid i spent literally days in the barn shootin barn swallows with a pellet gun, and the pigs could eat em faster than i could shoot em
bob

We used to use Beacon pig feed in the 60's and a significant portion of the protein was alfalfa. It was ground into the pig feed.

And corn silage. Yup, and chickens eat watermelon and dead calves. My dog eats hay in the winter when she can't get green grass. But she won't touch mushrooms.

For the hogs we would take all the chaff of the wagons and save it after unloading the hay for the cows and when we got enough we would set up the old hammermill and grind the hay and stor it in burlap bags and when we would need a batch of hog feed we would load up that hay along with the oats and go to the elevator to get the feed ground, the corn was stored at the elevator as we had no way of storing high moisture shelled corn. That ground hay was about double in feed value of the alfalfa meal that the elevator sold for that purpose. They would buy all the worst hay and just add enough good to make minum value feed and charge 10 times the value of the hay. Did not need to add all the vitamins and minerals to get the nutrition the hogs needed. Been too many years but think it was about 200# oats to 1,000# corn and about 150-200# of hay per batch. Never fed hogs, chickens or cows without the oats. Chickens would also use the ground hay. Using the chaf off the wagons for that you got about 4 times as many leaves per pound of ground hay for feed value but if we ran out of that would grind up some of the best hay bales and would have to ad a bit more to the ration.

Of course that is why they are called "pigs". They will eat anything.

Big old hogs have been known to eat about anything that walks or crawls including snakes,hay,chickens and young children.Grandmother used to tell about a family that their young child went missing,found their shoes in the hog lot.