[permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs

[P Ferguson]

Re: [permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs and nutrient runnoff



  Robyn wrote: My piggies absolutely love comfrey - haven't let them loose on the comfrey patch but they enjoy eating both leaves and roots. I'm considering expanding my comfrey production for all my animals.
  Ciao
  Robyn

  "Moderation in all things good and abstinence from all things bad" was the motto of an organisation called the Health and Temperence Society which used to send their monthly magazine to primary school in the far distant past!

  Herbals whether plants or medication are not necessarily harmless!  Comfrey got a bad name when a young fellow who ate comfrey died and its toxicity was blamed [someone lse said he was on a grape fast and didn't wash off the spray!].  I have only seen comfrey used as an external poultice, I haven't yet come across anyone who actually ingested it.

  As pigs [bless them] are close enough to us to suffer the similarly whether from food, toxins, diseases, blows [forensics use pig carcass to test weapons] and be sensitive to the same things.

  Steady on the comfy, Robyn.

  Besides, I am suspicious of anything with a hairy leaf being ingested.  
  Its a long time ago, but remember that case in China where chooks and humans were suffering from growths in the oesophagus, fatal for the chooks, and early deaths for the humans?  Scientists eventually put that down to the hairy husks of a grain both were eating.

  P Ferguson
  Illawarra NSW

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