[permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs and nutrient runnoff

[Gordon, Sue]

I think the biggest thing for nutrition runoff is to rotate them and use
electric fences to keep them into one area, then, perhaps putting fodder
crops in after them. And returning them later

 

With our pig tractor idea, we are cleaning regularly and composting the
nutrients, we mix it with the hay or straw they have snuffled in, and
they always use the same area, so it is very clean in the rest of the
paddock, and makes collection easy but then it is only 3 pigs, 

 

Sue Mossman

 

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Subject: RE: [permaculture-oceania] feeding pigs and nutrient runnoff

 

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions on pig fodder and forage and
general feeding ideas. Looking forward to more thoughts on this too! No
replies yet on dealing with nutrient runoff - which is a big thing we
need to deal with. To remind you of the question it is included again
below!

 

Cheers all,

Kerry Dawborn

 


3)       Nutrient runoff from paddocks into creek: we are concerned
about the nutrient load going into our creek from animal manure. It
seems likely that the most sensible way to view this is that really, the
nutrients are something we want to keep and use rather than allow to
pollute the creek, so perhaps the thing to do is grow more stuff that
can soak it up. Any suggestions re useful fodder (especially) or human
food plants or other plants, and ways to lay things out in order to best
catch the runoff? As I write I'm thinking swale-type arrangements with
appropriate plantings could work, but we are talking paddocks with pigs
so for stock management and other reasons, am not sure whether this
might create problems.


Any thoughts and suggestions would be most welcome...





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