Pig that doesnt like to eat

Steele5049 · Post by **Steele5049** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:21 am

i have a gilt thats about 200lbs maybe and another gilt thats about 215 or so and the heavier one loves to eat and she'll eat anything, but the lighter one dont eat nearly as much or as often all she seems to like to eat is cookies and crackers and human food, she also eats some sow feed but i would like to put a lot of weight on her before fair any suggestions?

kgb · Post by **kgb** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:32 am

Just my opinion, quit feeding her cookies, crackers, human food, and sow feed. If they are being hand fed and both are in the same pen, the more aggressive eater might well be scarfing down the feed before the timid eater has time to consume it.

Separate the pigs if that is the case. I would also hand feed if you are not.

AgRanch · Post by **AgRanch** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:43 pm

It helps feeding them cookies or something when you first get to know them. Instead of it taking a week if you feed them a cookie morning and night I swear they'll come right up to you when you walk into the pen.

kgb · Post by **kgb** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:29 pm

That is very true and feed cookies as a treat to train pigs. But what I meant is that if all the pig eats is cookies and snacks it's just like a kid, it fills us on junk and doesn't want to eat well fortified feeds.

That could be the problem.

Steele5049 · Post by **Steele5049** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:16 pm

shes loves the cookies and things, and we tryed to seperate them but she gets scared for some reason, she does the same when we take them to show's if shes away from the other pig she goes nuts. and we tryed hand feeding dont work,

IndianaMom · Post by **IndianaMom** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:54 pm

LOL

Time for some tough love! You need to separate these pigs. It may be rough at first but she will adjust.

They do get spoiled on snacks. They are good but keep it to a minimum.