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Good question. Because analmis eat what they see their parents eating or cohort members eating. The reason for this is that some things are toxic and thus dangerous to eat. Since the parents of our first pigs ate grain the piglets didn't learn to eat grass from their parents and had to be shown that grass, clovers and other forages were good to eat. Thus our pigs have become encultured to eat pasture.Humans are the same way. You children learn at a young age that they can safely eat what you eat. So why do kids eat marbles? They're not really trying to eat the marbles but rather are mouthing them to explore them since that is their first primary sense.Note that pasture consists of a lot more than just grass. Grasses are low in protein so we improved our pastures by planting a variety of clovers, alfalfa and other legumes as well as kale, rape, turnips, beets and such. These then self seed which continues with the strongest plants. Pasture is low in lysine which is a limiting amino-acid for pigs. On just pasture I find that they take a couple more months to reach market weight. By adding dairy to their diet the pigs grow at about the same rate as if they were getting free fed commercial hog feed or grain in the warm months. Winter always takes about an extra month to get to market weight of about 250 lbs.
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Karthick
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16 december 2014, 10:35:26
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