Posted by Determined on November 17, 2020 at 06:28:24 from (216.130.212.201):
In Reply to: Pigs question posted by jon f mn on November 16, 2020 at 05:47:03:
Boredom overtook them and they began to eat?
Monkey see monkey do?
We have not raised enough pigs to give you a solid reason but I can tell you what we have observed with cattle.
Most of our herd is Angus, when on pasture none of them would ever eat leaves off of trees.
One year we bought a dozen Simmental Angus cross cows, put them in the same pasture that had lush foot and a half tall grass, they went straight for the tree line and started munching leaves off the Aspen trees.
Over time many of our Angus watched them and out of curiosity I guess started doing the same.
From what I have read the growing leaves can have as much as 10 - 15% protein.
Straw will average 4% protein so your pigs wont be getting much more than fiber out of it.
Is the straw you have by chance year old?
I can put down this years straw for bedding and the cows don't do much more than lay on it but if I put down year old straw they will eat a fair bit of it.
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