Runner Beans?

Little Piggles · Mar 9, 2010

Hi all,

Does anyone know if piggies can eat runner beans?
I've has a nosey in the stickies but can't see anything and an internet search has given very mixed information.

My girls love the regular 'fine' beans and I wondered if the bigger runner beans would be okay too?

Thanks x

Rachel WD · Mar 10, 2010

popcorn paradise · Mar 10, 2010

I would have thought they would be fine, after all they are green beans. Just watch carefully for any problems.

christine · Mar 10, 2010

My piggies adore runner beans which we grow through the summer.However they love the leaves and pods and stalks but tend to leave the actual small beans from inside the pod They have never had any ill effects from them at all,and they are so easy and fast to grow even in a big pot with a cane "wigwam" for support. We grow ours along a 2metre by 12 metre fence,and pick the leaves and pods as they grow.

tinso · Mar 10, 2010

christine said:
My piggies adore runner beans which we grow through the summer.However they love the leaves and pods and stalks but tend to leave the actual small beans from inside the pod They have never had any ill effects from them at all,and they are so easy and fast to grow even in a big pot with a cane "wigwam" for support. We grow ours along a 2metre by 12 metre fence,and pick the leaves and pods as they grow.

same here christine my piggies love them too and i grow my own dident know they could eat the leaves though

Teresa J · Mar 10, 2010

Mine love runner beans and the stalks and the leaves .....................

Teresa x

Little Piggles · Mar 10, 2010

Thanks all (and to Rachel for the bump

)

I'll give them some for their supper and see what they think of them

redd1800 · Mar 13, 2010

another new idea to try

Goldie · Mar 13, 2010

Mine love runner beans, also the outside peelings when I cook them for ourselves.

Leaves, though, I have never tried them with as I am not sure if they are ok.

threelittlepiggies · Mar 13, 2010

christine

Sorry to hijack this thread , but I am very near you - Great Eccleston area. Can you get in touch if you know a good GP vet? Thanks!

I haven't been here long enough to PM anyone - or receive them I think.

christine · Mar 15, 2010

vets

threelittlepiggies said:
christine

Sorry to hijack this thread , but I am very near you - Great Eccleston area. Can you get in touch if you know a good GP vet? Thanks!

I haven't been here long enough to PM anyone - or receive them I think.

Hi ,the vet I use is davies and johnson in woodplumpton near Preston .They have been good with my pigs .Their number is 01772 690380