Hogs seem like a nice simple option for meat production once the infrastructure is set up right. How much of their feed do you think comes from household waste, garden scraps, etc?
Hogs seem like a nice simple option for meat production once the infrastructure is set up right. How much of their feed do you think comes from household waste, garden scraps, etc?
Here, not a lot. Perhaps under 20%. We are into clean, highly nutritious feeding, not cheap feed. We raise this food as treatment for chronic illness and it needs to be the best we can manage. So cheap empty calories, or way past use vegs aren't something we consider. They do get stuff from the garden, but not garbage or rotting stuff.
That's totally understandable I have never been keen on giving them old supermarket produce and stuff like that. Some free feed is better then none!