Grass Question

[Tigermoth]

I've started giving the gruesome twosome a handful of grass to build them up as suggested in the sticky.

What should you do about veg if they are out on the grass? Do you still give them some? A bit less?

I can't imagine how they will be on the grass tbh, probably rigid and won't eat any anyway!

 

[Swissgreys]

I asked about this a while back, and was told that fresh spring grass counts as veg, so reduce their fresh veg slightly to account for the grass.
For example mine 3 currently get about 2 cups of grass a day, so I have reduced their fresh veg to 1 cup. That is between 3 of them btw - not per piggie.
This has however led to another problem.
Whenever anyone even touches the back door handle the pigs all start madly wheeking because they just know we must be going out to cut them more grass

 

[Wiebke]

I've started giving the gruesome twosome a handful of grass to build them up as suggested in the sticky.

What should you do about veg if they are out on the grass? Do you still give them some? A bit less?

I can't imagine how they will be on the grass tbh, probably rigid and won't eat any anyway!

It depends on the grass. I count fresh, juicy, fast growing spring and dry, nutritionally much poorer autumn grass more as veg and dry summer and winter grass more as hay. Accordingly, put out some hay in a dish in spring to help steady the guts if they are out for several hours, but feed less veg, but rather feed more juicy veg and offer fesh water on the grass during a heat wave.

 

[James Brookes]

I asked about this a while back, and was told that fresh spring grass counts as veg, so reduce their fresh veg slightly to account for the grass.
For example mine 3 currently get about 2 cups of grass a day, so I have reduced their fresh veg to 1 cup. That is between 3 of them btw - not per piggie.
This has however led to another problem.
Whenever anyone even touches the back door handle the pigs all start madly wheeking because they just know we must be going out to cut them more grass

Yes, I count it as a veg. During the spring and summer we put them out in the garden in a run, (only during the day, we bring them in at night because of the foxes) ,and they pretty much eat all the grass! So we tend to cut back on veg.